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General Science M01
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | An endeavor dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world. |
| Imhotep | Renowned for his knowledge of medicine |
| Papyrus | An ancient form of paper, made from a plant of the same name. |
| Thales | One of the first scientists who studied the heavens |
| Anaximander | First scientist who tried to explain the origin of life without reference to a creator. |
| Anaximenes | Scientist who believed everything was made from air. |
| Leucippus | Father of the atomic theory |
| Democritus | Scientist who believed that all matter was similar to sand. |
| Density | How tightly packed matter is |
| Aristotle | Father of life sciences. |
| Spontaneous Generation | The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances. |
| Archimedes | First scientist who demonstrated how closely mathematics and science are linked. |
| Ptolemy | Came up with Ptolemaic or Geocentric System |
| Ptolemaic or Geocentric System | Assumes that the earth sits at the center of the universe and all planets travel around it. |
| Alchemists | Wanted to find a means by which a substance could be transformed into gold |
| Supernova | The explosion of a star |
| Nebula | The remains of an exploaded star |
| Robert Grosseteste | Father of the scientific method |
| Dietrich Von Freiberg | The priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow |
| Roger Bacon | Tried to use science to break the shackles of superstition |
| Thomas Bradwardine | One of the first scientists to dispute Aristotle's findings |
| Nicholas of Cusa | His studies of the planets was one of the first to break from Ptolemy's geocentric view. |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Came up with the Copernican or Heliocentric System |
| Copernican or Heliocentric System | Assumed the sun was at the center of the universe and all planets revolved around it |
| Andreas Vesalius | Author of book detailing the human body |
| Johannes Kepler | His oberservations detailed how planets travel in an oval pattern called an ellipse. |
| Galileo | Associated with the discovery of the telescope |
| Blaise Pascal | He demonstrated the effects of atmospheric pressure. |
| Sir Isaac Newton | Wrote "Principia," which states the three laws of motion |
| Robert Boyle | Founder of modern chemistry |
| Antoni van Leeuwenhoek | Built the first microscope |
| Carolus Linnaeus | Published book which classified all living creatures |
| Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier | Discovered Law of Mass Conservation and the first to explain combustion |
| John Dalton | Founder of modern atomic theory |
| Charles R. Darwin | Wrote the book "The Origin of Species" and developed the theory we now call evolution. |
| Louis Pasteur | Developed a process called pasteurization |
| Sir Charles Lyell | Influenced Darwin due to his view that earth is millions of years old |
| Gregor Mendel | Studied reproduction and provided ground work for the field of modern genetics |
| Michael Faraday | His experiments and ideas about electricity earned him the title of "the electrical giant" |
| James Clark Maxwell | Founder of modern physics |
| James Joule | Discovered the First Law of Thermodynamics |
| Max Planck | His ideas formed the study of quantum mechanics |
| Albert Einstein | Developed the theory of relativity |
| Niels Bohr | Developed a picture of the atom |
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