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Famous Scientists

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French- Discovered that wires carrying electric current can attract and repel magnetically Andre-Marie Ampere
Greek- Founded the sciences of mechanics and hydrostatics Archimedes
Italian- The first scientist to realize that elements can exist in the form of molecules rather than as individual atoms Amedeo Avogadro
Scottish- Inventor of the metal detector, the telephone, and the photophone – the first device to carry the human voice using light. Alexander Graham Bell
Danish- Founded quantum mechanics; Remodeled the atom- electrons occupied ‘allowed’ orbits around the nucleus Neils Bohr
Danish- measured the orbit of Mars with unprecedented accuracy, paving the way for Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and Newton’s law of gravity Tycho Brahe
Polish- Started the scientific revolution with his book The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Nicolaus Copernicus
British & American, along with Rosiland Frankin, “discovered” DNA’s structure and replication mechanis James Watson & Francis Crick
Polish- Co-discovered the chemical elements radium and polonium; Made numerous pioneering contributions to the study of radioactive elements Marie Curie
English- His Atomic Theory is the basis of chemistry Discovered the law of partial gas pressures. John Dalton
British- Authored On the Origin of Species, in which he described and provided evidence for the theory of evolution by natural selection Charles Darwin
German- Theories of special & general relativity; explained the photoelectric effect and Brownian Motion Albert Einstein
English- Discovered the first experimental link between light and magnetism Michael Farraday
Scotish- Discovered penicillin and predicted the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Alexander Fleming
Italian- Discovered the first moons ever known to orbit another planet; Saturn’s rings Galileo
British- Predicted black holes emit radiation; wrote A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
English- Wrote one of the most significant books in scientific history, Micrographia, revealing the microscopic world for the first time Robert Hooke
German- Discovered the solar system’s planets follow elliptical paths; Three Laws of Planetary Motion Johannes Kepler
French- discovered oxygen’s role in combustion and respiration; discovered water is made of oxygen and hydrogen Antoine Lavoisier
Dutch- The father of microbiology Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Swedish- Organized our view of the natural world with the two-part naming system we use to classify all lifeforms Carolus Linnaeus
Austrian- identified many of the rules of heredity; identified recessive and dominant traits, Gregor Mendel
Russian- created the periodic table of elements Dmitri Mendeleev
British- Profoundly changed our understanding of nature with his law of universal gravitation and his laws of motion; Isaac Newton
Swedish- Invented dynamite, the blasting cap, gelignite, and ballistite Alfred Nobel
French- Established the germ theory of disease Louis Pasteur
New Zealand- Ran the Gold Foil Experiment, which showed that atoms had a nucleus Ernest Rutherford
Serbian- Worked with Westinghouse to design of the modern AC electrical system Nikola Tesla
English- Discovered the electron; described an atom using the Plum Pudding model J. J. Thompson
Scottish- Radically improved the steam engine; invednted the copy machine James Watt
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