Famous Scientists
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| show | German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that time, space, and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
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| Isaac Newton | show 🗑
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| show | Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
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| show | Italian scientist, astronomer, discovered that Jupiter has four moons and the sun has dark spots. Church did not like ideas.
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| Niels Bohr | show 🗑
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| show | German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947)
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| show | Made a simple microscope with a tiny glass bead that could magnify up to 270x
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| Barbara McClintock | show 🗑
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| show | An author/scientist stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease whose research indicates that black holes can lose mass over time, wrote A Brief History of Time.
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| show | Discovered electromagnetic induction and put together a rustic generator. Laid the foundation for electricity. Efficient generators weren't built for lots more years though.
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| Carl Linnaeus | show 🗑
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| George Washington Carver | show 🗑
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| Richard Feynman | show 🗑
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| William Thomson | show 🗑
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| Thomas Edison | show 🗑
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| show | Renaissance Artists of Mona Lisa & The Last Supper; known as renaissance man-studied corpses, flying machines, human body
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| show | Invented the telephone
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| Linus Pauling | show 🗑
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| show | Demonstrated that light consists of two transverse waves oscillating at right angles to each other
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| show | French chemist known as "the father of modern chemistry", mainly discovered the role of oxygen in combustion and respiration, proved the law of conservation, reformed the chemical nomenclature, and named hydrogen.
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| Louis Pasteur | show 🗑
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| show | He was a mathematician who developed the "Pascaline." This was the first mechanical adding machine. The Pascaline was a wooden box that could add and subtract by using a series of gears and wheels.
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| show | Discovered penicillin. This discovery led to the introduction of antibiotics that greatly reduced the number of deaths from infection.
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| Robert Boyle | show 🗑
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| Robert Hooke | show 🗑
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| J. J. Thomson | show 🗑
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| show | British naturalist who developed a hypothesis of natural selection similar to Darwin's.
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| Heinrich Hertz | show 🗑
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| show | He lay the foundation for in 1895 when he wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the prize, created dynamite and was so disgusted at its use in war that established the Nobel Prize to leave a better legacy.
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| show | amateur fossil collector who pioneered the discovery of time with her collection; very important in the field of geology. her contributions were slighted and her work was not respected because she was a woman. she discovered the first complete skeleton of
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| John Dalton | show 🗑
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| Charles Darwin | show 🗑
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| Nicolaus Copernicus | show 🗑
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| show | Assistant to Brahe; used Brahe's data to prove that the earth moved in an elliptical, not circular, orbit; Wrote 3 laws of planetary motion based on mechanical relationships and accurately predicted movements of planets in a sun-centered universe; Demolis
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| Dmitri Mendeleev | show 🗑
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| C. V. Raman | show 🗑
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| Wilhelm Rontgen | show 🗑
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| show | Greek mathematician and inventor. He wrote works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. He is best known for the lever and pulley.
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| show | One of the first people to realize the global dangers of pesticide abuse (DDT). Wrote Silent Spring.
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| Nikola Tesla | show 🗑
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| show | He co-discovered DNA's double helix, revealing the code of life to scientists and entrepreneurs alike.
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| Rosalind Franklin | show 🗑
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| Ada Lovelace | show 🗑
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| show | English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916).
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| Ernest Rutherford | show 🗑
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| Alessandro Volta | show 🗑
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| show | Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884).
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