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Franklin-Galileo

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