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Scientists

Important Scientists

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BECQUEREL discovered radioactivity
COPERNICUS founded modern astronomy
CURIE discovered radium, polonium
DARWIN natural selection, theory of evolution
EINSTEIN theory of relativity
FERMI radioactivity, chain reaction, H-bomb
FLEMING discovered penicillin
GALEN physician, studied personalities
GALILEO astronomer and physicist, laws of gravity
GAUSS mathematician and astronomer, invented electric telegraph
HERSCHEL astronomer
HIPPOCRATES physician, father of medicine
JENNER physician, cowpox vaccine
LAMARCK naturalist, theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics
LINNEAUS devised system of classifying living organisms
LISTER surgeon, promoted antiseptic methods
LYSENKO geneticist, follower of Lamarck, led to demist of Soviet biology
MENDEL botanist, transmission of characteristics in plants (genetics)
PASTEUR chemist, germ theory, use of heat to destroy bacteria
PTOLEMY astronomer, geocentric theory of solar system
RUTHERFORD physicist, radioactivity
SABIN developed oral vaccine against polio
SALK developed first vaccine against polio
WATSON and FRANCIS biophysicist, discovered structure of DNA molecule (double helix)
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