regional jet) Linus Yale Jr. (1821–1868), U.S. – cylinder lock Linus Yale Sr. (1797–1858), U.S. – pin tumbler lock Shunpei Yamazaki (born 1942), Japan – patents in computer science and solid-state physics, see List of prolific inventors Gazi Yaşargil (born 1925), Turkey – Microneurosurgery Ryōichi Yazu (1878–1908), Japan – Yazu Arithmometer Gunpei Yokoi (1941–1997), Japan – Game Boy Arthur M. Young (1905–1995), U.S. – the Bell Helicopter Vladimir Yourkevich (1885–1964), Russia/France/U.S. – ship hull design Tu Youyou (born 1930), China – Artemisinin Sergei Yudin (1891–1954), Russia – cadaveric blood transfusion and other medical operations Muhammad Yunus (born 1940), Bangladesh – microcredit, microfinance Abu Yusuf Yaqub (c. 1274), Morocco/Spain – siege cannon Abraham Albert Yuzpe (born 1938), U.S. – Yuzpe regimen (= form of Emergency contraception) Z Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) (936–1013), Islamic Spain – catgut surgical suture, various surgical instruments and dental devices Frank Zamboni (1901–1988), U.S. – Ice resurfacer Giuseppe Zamboni (1776–1846), Italy – Zamboni pile (early battery) Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859–1917), Russia/Poland – Esperanto Walter Zapp (1905–2003), Latvia/Estonia/Germany – Minox (subminiature camera) Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel) (1028–1087), Islamic Spain – almanac, equatorium, universal astrolabe Yevgeny Zavoisky (1907–1976), Russia – EPR spectroscopy, co-developer of NMR spectroscopy Nikolay Zelinsky (1861–1953), Russia – the first effective filtering coal gas mask in the world Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917), Germany – Zeppelin Frits Zernike (1888–1966), The Netherlands – Phase contrast microscope Tang Zhongming (1897–1980), China – internal combustion engine powered by charcoal Jian Zhou (1957–1999), together with Ian Hector Frazer (1953–), China/U.S. – HPV vaccine against cervical cancer Nikolai Zhukovsky (1847–1921), Russia – an early wind tunnel, co-developer of the Tsar Tank Karl Ziegler (1898–1973), together with Giulio Natta (1903–1979), Germany/Italy – Ziegler–Natta catalyst Franz Ziehl (1857–1926), together with Friedrich Neelsen (1854–1898), Germany – Ziehl–Neelsen stain (histology) Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), Germany – invented the first programmable general-purpose computer (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4) Vasily Zvyozdochkin (1876–1956), Russia – matryoshka doll (together with Sergey Malyutin) Vladimir Zworykin (1889–1982), Russia/U.S. – Iconoscope, kinescope. See also Creativity techniques List of emerging technologies List of prolific inventors Ten Japanese Great Inventors The heroic theory of invention and scientific development Timeline of historic inventions List of African-American inventors and scientists References sv:Alfabetisk lista över svenska uppfinnare och vetenskapsmän