Scientists/Inventors
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| Polish astronomer & physician. Founder of modern astronomy. Deduced that the Earth rotates on its axis and that the planets revolve around the sun: the heliocentric theory | show 🗑
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| show | Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
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| show | Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
The Faraday constant is named after him.
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| show | Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
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| show | Albert Einstein
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| In 1927 he proposed the Big Bang theory of the universe. It says that all the matter in the universe was originally compressed into a tiny dot. In a fraction of a second, the dot expanded, & all the matter instantly filled what is now our universe. | show 🗑
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| The two scientists found the double-helix structure of DNA. It’s made up of two strands that twist around each other and have an almost endless variety of chemical patterns that create instructions for the human body to follow. | show 🗑
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| show | Dmitri Mendeleev
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| He won a 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the structure of an atom and for his work in the development of the quantum theory. Although he help develop the atomic bomb, he frequently promoted the use of atomic power for peaceful purposes. | show 🗑
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| In 1983 and 1984 they discovered the HIV virus and determined that it was the cause of AIDS. | show 🗑
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| A German physicist, discovered X-rays in 1895. For this discovery, Roentgen was awarded the first-ever Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. | show 🗑
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| Notable discoveries include the identification of the differences between veins and arteries, and recognising that the larynx generates voice. Famous for introducing medical experimentation | show 🗑
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| Famous for discovering the cell. He had an extraordinary ability to manipulate microscopes, and when applying this ability to looking closely at a thin slice of cork observed empty spaces contained with walls - terming them cells. | show 🗑
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| Father of modern taxonomy. Came up with the system of naming, ranking, and classifying organisms that we still use today. He separated all living things into 3 kingdoms; animals, plants and minerals. | show 🗑
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| show | Gregor Mendel
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| Duo famous for being the first scientists to clone a mammal (Dolly the Sheep) | show 🗑
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| Greek who discovered that any object, wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. | show 🗑
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| show | Marie and Pierre Curie
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| Invented the first successful vaccine for polio in 1954 | show 🗑
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| Italian inventor of the radio. Made improvements in wireless communication, allowing messages to be sent across English Channel. Worked on developing shortwave wireless communication | show 🗑
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| show | Philo Farnsworth
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| American Inventor of the telephone and induction balance for finding metal objects in the body. Founder the journal Science, a school for the deaf, the Aerial Experiment Association & President of the Nat'l Geographic Society | show 🗑
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| show | Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
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| show | Nicéphore Niépce
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| show | Johannes Gutenberg
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| show | Wiliam Herschel
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| Persian astronomer and mathematician. Determined several astronomical parameters and calculated tables of tangents, cotangents, advancing the study of trigonometry | show 🗑
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| Greek philosopher and scientist. A student of Plato, he taught and wrote about logics, metaphysics, natural science, rhetoric, ethics and poetics. He tutored Alexander the Great and identified dolphins. | show 🗑
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| Mathematician and inventor. He perfected a calculating machine and invented the ophthalmoscope; instrument used to view interior of the eye. Credited with building 1 of the 1st programmable computers | show 🗑
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| English philosopher, scientist & Franciscan monk. Made gunpowder & experimented in optics & alchemy. Wrote on logic, grammar, math, philosophy, philology. Imprisoned on heresey | show 🗑
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| American chemist and inventor. Discovered Bakelite, a synthetic resin. | show 🗑
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| South African surgeon. In 1967, he performed the 1st successful human heart transplant. | show 🗑
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| show | Carl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929)
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| show | Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937)
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| show | Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (1834-1900)
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| show | Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
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| American inventor who developed Kodak box camera in 1888 after perfecting the process for making photographic dry plates and flexible film. | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"Wizard of Menlo Park"
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| show | Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915)
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| show | Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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| show | Euclid (300 B.C.)
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| Scottish bacteriologist. Accidentally discovered the 1st antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928, one of the most important contributions in 20th century medicine. Won Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine in 1945 | show 🗑
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| show | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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| show | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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| American engineer. Built 1st affordable steamboat, opening up river transportation routes to commercial steamboats. Designed 1st submarine & war steamboat. | show 🗑
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| show | Galileo (1564-1642)
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| Co-founder of Microsoft. By licensing Windows, web browsers and productivity software to manufacturers of IBM-compatible PCs, he became software maker to the world. Nearly 90% of consumers & business use his work. | show 🗑
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| show | George Washington Goethals (1858-1928)
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| show | Jane Goodall (1934-)
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| show | Charles Goodyear (1800-1860)
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| show | William Harvey (1578-1657)
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| Greek physician known as the father of medicine. Developed a code of medical ethics known as the Hippocratic Oath; which all new doctors swear to uphold the oath. | show 🗑
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| 1st scientist to use computer analysis to study the molecular structure of vitamin B12, penicillin and insulin. Awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964. | show 🗑
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| American astronomer who first discovered the Milk Way galaxy is but one of billions. Studied the redshift in galaxies' light spectra, he helped confirm that the universe is expanding. | show 🗑
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| 1st to use a pendulum in clocks to help regulate time. Designed new method of grinding/polishing lenses. Solved questions about centrifugal force. Designed wave theory of light that stated light moved in waves of constant vibrations | show 🗑
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| show | John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920)
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| Neoplatonic philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. Advance algebraic theory. | show 🗑
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| English physician. In 1796, after observing that milkmaids who had cowpox did not get smallpox, he vaccinated an 8-year old boy with cowpox vesicles, hence successfully testing a vaccine for smallpox | show 🗑
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| show | Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
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| German astronomer. Deduced ray theory of light to explain vision; founder of modern optics. Established 3 laws of planetary motion. His work contributed to the development of calculus. Newton built his theories on this man's work. | show 🗑
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| show | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958)
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| show | Antoine-Lauren Lavoisier (1743-1794)
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| American physicist who produced radioactive isotopes and used radioactivity in medicine. Introduced use of neutron beams in cancer treatment. Invented the cyclotron. | show 🗑
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| show | Mary Leakey (1913-1996)
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| Dutch inventor. Redesigned the microscope, achieving magnifications of more than 250. Discovered protozoa and was the first to publish drawings of bacteria. | show 🗑
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| show | Hans Lippershey (1570-1619)
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| Alchemist. Invented the prototype of an autoclave, a device used for distilling liquids; an apparatus-kerotakis-used to make alloys and a double boiler | show 🗑
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| German scientist who wrote the 1st German handbook of astronomy and physics. | show 🗑
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| Austrian biologist. His experiments crossbreeding peas led to the develop of Mendel's law stating that characteristics in animals and plants are passed down through successive generations. | show 🗑
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| show | Maria Merian (1647-1717)
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| show | Mondino d'Luzzi (1275-1326)
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| American artist and inventor. Created Morse code and telegraph received a patent for it in 1837. | show 🗑
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| American physicist who directed the Manhattan Project (1942-1945) which developed the atomic bomb. | show 🗑
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| show | Sir William Henry Perkins (1838-1907)
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| English chemist who discovered that plants produce oxygen and that sunlight was necessary for planet growth | show 🗑
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| show | Rhazes (854-925)
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| show | William Talbot (1800-1877)
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| show | Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
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| show | James Watt (1736-1819)
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| German scientist who accidentally discovered X-Rays in 1895. | show 🗑
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| show | John Dalton (1766-1844)
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| Father of nuclear physics. Discovered the proton and nucleus of an atom. Famous for his gold-foil experiment. Discovered the concept of radioactive half-life. Differentiated alpha & beta radiation | show 🗑
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| show | James Chadwick (1891-1974)
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| show | JJ Thomson (1856-1940)
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| show | Alfred Nobel
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| show | Samuel Colt
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| show | Tim Berners-Lee
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| Inventor of bifocal lens | show 🗑
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| Inventor of Scuba Gear | show 🗑
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| Inventor of X-Ray Imagining | show 🗑
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| show | George Eastman
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| show | Thomas Edison
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| show | Samuel Morse
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| Inventor of the sewing machine | show 🗑
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| Inventor of the steel plow | show 🗑
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| Inventor of the paddlewheel steamship | show 🗑
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| Inventor of the telephone | show 🗑
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| show | Eli Whitney
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| show | George Westinghouse
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| show | Robert H. Goddard
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| show | Charles Goodyear
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| show | Cyrus McCormick
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| Inventor of arc lighting and incandescent lamp | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph Glidden
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| Inventor of the zipper | show 🗑
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