#separator:tab #html:false #tags column:4 Isaac Newton Laws of motion and gravity (1600s) fun-famous-scientists Albert Einstein Theory of relativity (1900s) fun-famous-scientists Galileo Galilei Used a telescope to study the Moon and Jupiter's moons (1600s) fun-famous-scientists Marie Curie Studied radioactivity; won two Nobel Prizes fun-famous-scientists Charles Darwin Theory of evolution by natural selection (1859) fun-famous-scientists Louis Pasteur Germ theory, pasteurization and vaccines fun-famous-scientists Nikola Tesla Alternating current electricity and many inventions fun-famous-scientists Thomas Edison Light bulb, phonograph, and many patents fun-famous-scientists Alexander Graham Bell Telephone fun-famous-scientists Leonardo da Vinci Painter and inventor who sketched flying machines (1400s-1500s) fun-famous-scientists Copernicus Said the planets orbit the Sun (1500s) fun-famous-scientists Johannes Kepler Laws of planetary motion (1600s) fun-famous-scientists Archimedes Ancient Greek who found the principle of buoyancy fun-famous-scientists Aristotle Greek thinker who studied many sciences fun-famous-scientists Ptolemy Ancient astronomer who mapped the stars fun-famous-scientists Gregor Mendel Founder of genetics using pea plants fun-famous-scientists Rosalind Franklin Her X-ray work helped reveal DNA's structure fun-famous-scientists Ada Lovelace Wrote the first computer program idea fun-famous-scientists Alan Turing Founder of modern computing ideas (1900s) fun-famous-scientists Michael Faraday Electricity and magnetism experiments fun-famous-scientists James Clerk Maxwell Equations of light and electricity fun-famous-scientists Dmitri Mendeleev Created the periodic table (1869) fun-famous-scientists Antoine Lavoisier Father of modern chemistry fun-famous-scientists Robert Hooke Looked at cork and named 'cells' fun-famous-scientists Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Saw tiny microbes with early microscopes fun-famous-scientists Edward Jenner Developed the smallpox vaccine fun-famous-scientists Florence Nightingale Founder of modern nursing fun-famous-scientists Joseph Lister Used clean methods in surgery fun-famous-scientists Alexander Fleming Discovered penicillin fun-famous-scientists Jonas Salk Created a polio vaccine fun-famous-scientists Wilhelm Roentgen Discovered X-rays (1895) fun-famous-scientists Ernest Rutherford Showed that atoms have a nucleus fun-famous-scientists Niels Bohr Model of the atom fun-famous-scientists Max Planck Started quantum theory fun-famous-scientists Stephen Hawking Studied black holes (1942-2018) fun-famous-scientists Carl Linnaeus Created the system for naming living things fun-famous-scientists Alfred Wegener Proposed continental drift fun-famous-scientists Edwin Hubble Showed other galaxies exist and the universe expands fun-famous-scientists Henrietta Leavitt Found a way to measure distances to stars fun-famous-scientists Annie Jump Cannon Sorted stars into classes fun-famous-scientists Mary Anning Fossil hunter who found early marine reptile skeletons fun-famous-scientists George Washington Carver Taught farmers about crop rotation and peanut uses fun-famous-scientists Rachel Carson Wrote Silent Spring about nature and pesticides fun-famous-scientists Hypatia Ancient mathematician and teacher in Alexandria fun-famous-scientists Pythagoras Greek thinker linked to the triangle rule fun-famous-scientists Euclid Wrote the Elements, a famous geometry book fun-famous-scientists Blaise Pascal Mathematician who studied pressure and probability fun-famous-scientists Evangelista Torricelli Invented the barometer fun-famous-scientists Robert Boyle Studied gases and pressure fun-famous-scientists Benjamin Franklin Studied lightning and invented the lightning rod fun-famous-scientists Lise Meitner Helped explain nuclear fission fun-famous-scientists Katherine Johnson NASA mathematician who calculated spaceflight paths fun-famous-scientists Wright brothers Built and flew the first successful airplane fun-famous-scientists Samuel Morse Telegraph and Morse code fun-famous-scientists Guglielmo Marconi Wireless radio fun-famous-scientists Henry Ford Assembly line cars fun-famous-scientists James Watt Improved the steam engine fun-famous-scientists Johannes Gutenberg Printing press in Europe fun-famous-scientists