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ICS SB - Scientists
ICS SB - Famous Scientists
Description | Scientist's Name |
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conservationist - observed chimpanzees in natural habitat | Jane Goodall |
astronaut - 2nd person to walk on the moon - received Presidential Medal of Honor | Buzz (Edwin) Aldrin |
astronaut - 1st mand to walk on the moon - received Presidential Medal of Honor | Neil Armstrong |
astronaut - 1st man to orbit the Earth - oldest man to travel in space - Ohio senator | John Glenn |
astronaut - 1st American femail to travel into space | Sally Ride |
Polish astronomer - developed the heliocentric theory that planets rotate around the Sun | Nicolaus Copernicus |
Italian astronomer - exiled from the Church for his ideas - built telescope & 1st to observe Jupiter's moon, Saturn's rings, Venus, & sunspots - studied pendulums | Galileo Galilei |
Green astronomer - considered the "Father of Astronomy" | Hipparchus |
American astronomer - telescope named after him - studied galaxies | Edwin Powell Hubble |
17th century astronomer - developed 3 laws of planetary motion including planets move in elliptical orbits - Sir Isaac Newton based his studies of gravity on him | Johannes Kepler |
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer, & cartographer - maintained Earth was center of the universe & all objects revolve around it | Ptolemy |
biologists - in 1962, awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the shape of the DNA molecule | Francis Crick & James Watson |
1900 biologist - devised the "Theory of Evolution" - created theory of evolution & natural selection (survival of the fittest) - sometimes called a naturalist | Charles Darwin |
18th century British chemist - discovered hydrogen - concluded water was not an element | Henry Cavendish |
meteorologist - known for "Atomic Theory" | John Dalton |
1800s - teacher & scientist - inventor of the Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
British - known as "Father of Modern Computing" - invented 1st calculator | Charles Babbage |
Scottish-born, American immigrant - invented telephone - Helen Keller one of his students - 2nd president of National Geographic Society | Alexander Graham Bell |
French teacher - created Braille | Louis Braille |
Renaissance man - designed many engineering innovations including primitive flying machine, a diving suit, & a pulley system | Leonardo da Vinci |
inventor - most famous invention incadenscent light - over 1,000 patents - known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park" | Thomas Alva Edison |
born in Michigan - invented the assembly line - created his own automobile company & the Model T Ford - 1st to pay employees minimum wage | Henry Ford |
popular printer, 1st American Postmaster General, stateman, & ambassador - extensive research on static electricity - invented the Franklin Stove & biofocals | Ben Franklin |
inventor of the first steamboat, the Clermont, launched on the Hudsen River in New York 1807 - devised the way the early Post Office delivered mail | Robert Fulton |
called "The Father of the Modern Rocket" - assisted US government during both world wars | Robert Goddard |
1400 German - invented moveable type method of printing - printed many Bibles | Johann Gutenberg |
3rd century Greek mathematician - created formula for volume of a sphere, law of the lever, & the principal of buoyancy | Archimedes |
German scientist - theory of relativity led to the development of atomic energy & a Nobel Prize in 1921 - element, Einsteinium, named after him | Albert Einstein |
300 BC mathematician - known as "Father of Geometry" - the use of proofs in geometry | Euclid |
discovered gravitational force, the 3 laws of motion, refracted light, & prisms | Isaac Newton |