Question | Answer |
Rosalind Franklin | 1952 – x-rays to determine structure of DNA;died from radiation caused by exposure to x-rays |
Democritus | Greek philosopher;All things made of small things = atoms;atomos – cannot be divided |
Karl Jansky | 1931 began radio astronomy |
Wladimir Kopper | 1900 system to classify climates |
William Gilbert | 1st person to discover the magnetic properties of Lodestone (magnetic iron ore) |
Robert Goddard | “Rocketman” made 1st liquid-fuel rocket engine |
Robert Hooke | Explained elasticity (Hooke’s Law); coined term “cells” when looking at cork bark;many other accomplishments |
Theodore Schwann | Cofounder of cell theory; All animals are made of cells |
Jane Goodall | Chimpanzee expert and conservationist |
Mario Molina | Discovered that CFC’s (chlorofluorocarbons) were destroying the ozone;CFC’s were banned because of this in 1978 (Montreal protocol) |
Lise Meitner | "the mother of the atomic bomb"; discovered nuclear fission |
Barbara McClintock | leader in the development of maize cytogenetics;many genetic discoveries |
Edmund Halley | Great inventor/scientist;Predicted that a bright comet was periodic and would return;named after him (Halley’s comet) |
Sir Isaac Newton | Gravity; Three laws of motion; Many other achievements |
Leonardo da Vinci | Vitruvian man – 1498; To teach anatomy |
Matthias Schleiden | Cofounder of cell theory; All PLANTS are made of cells |
Hemophilia | Disorder where blood doesn’t clot properly |
Cystic fibrosis | Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited condition. It can have many symptoms, affecting different parts of the body, particularly the lungs and digestive system; most common inherited disease in white people |
Down’s syndrome | Trisomy 21; Mutation where the 21st pair of chromosomes, now has three |
Sickle-cell anemia | Most common in people of African descent;occurs when a person inherits two abnormal genes (one from each parent) that cause their red blood cells to change shape;disorder that affects hemoglobin, a protein found in red blood cells that helps carry oxygen |
Harry Hess | Theory of Sea-floor Spreading |
Edwin Hubble | 1920’s – discovered that farther a galaxy was from us, the faster it is moving;Named space telescope after him |
Hans Jansen-Zacharias Jansen | Father-son team that made 1st useful microscope |
Carolus Linnaeus | “Father of Taxonomy (classification)”; botanist; invented “binomial nomenclature” |
James Hutton | “Founder of Modern Geology”;wrote Theory of the Earth, (1785) |
Matthew Maury | “Father of Oceanography”;mapped ocean currents, sea surface temperature and surface winds |
William Maurice Ewing | U.S. geophysicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding of marine sediments and ocean basins, using seismic methods |
Enrico Fermi | One of the “Fathers of the Nuclear Age”;instrumental in the development of the first nuclear weapons during the 1940s |
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | Observed 1st bacteria from scrapings from his teeth; One of 1st microscopes |
Antoine Lavoisier | French chemist; “mass of log = mass of ashes + smoke”; Law of Conservation of matter |
Steven Hawking | Modern day Einstein; Physicist; Black holes; Wheelchair |
Galileo Galilei | 1607 – 1st telescope; astronomer; discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons (Galilean moons) |