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Gen. Science Mod. 1
A Brief History of Science
Scientist | Contribution |
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Imhotep | Ancient Egyptian that was known for ability to heal diseases |
Thales | Predicted the first solar eclipse |
Anaximander | First explained the origin of the human race without reference to a creator |
Anaximenes | Believe all things were made of air |
Leucippus | Father of atomic theory |
Democritus | Compared the idea of atoms to grains of sand on a beach |
Aristotle | Father of life sciences |
Archimedes | First to link mathematics and science; famous for his "bathtub" idea |
Ptolemy | Believed the earth was the center of the universe |
Grosseteste | Father of the scientific method |
Bacon | Believed the more people learned about science, the more they would learn about God |
Bradwardine | Considered the first Reformer, salvation by faith alone |
Copernicus | Believed the sun was the center of the universe |
Vesalius | Wrote a book with detailed and accurate illustrations of the human body |
Kepler | Made a mathematical argument for the planets traveling in elliptical paths around the sun |
Galileo | Made a telescope to study planets and stars |
Pascal | Made advances in mathematics and science,especially geometry, algebra and fluids |
Newton | Responsible for the three laws of motion, universal law of gravitation, and calculus |
Boyle | Founder of modern chemistry |
Leeuwenhoek | Built the first microscope |
Linnaeus | Published a book that tried to classify all living creatures |
Lavoisier | Reponsible for the Law of Mass Conservation |
Dalton | Famous for his atomic theory |
Darwin | Wrote On the Origin of Species |
Pasteur | Destroyed the theory of spontaneous generation |
Lyell | Important figure in the early study of geology |
Mendel | Known for his work in early genetics |
Faraday | Known for his work in electricity |
Joule | Responsible for the First Law of Thermodynamics |
Einstein | Famous for quantum mechanics, general and special theory of relativity |
Bohr | Developed a model of the atom |
Maxwell | Father of modern physics |
Planck | Matter exists in tiny packets he called quanta |