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Isaac Newton	Laws of motion and universal gravitation		sci-famous-scientists
Albert Einstein	Theory of relativity and E = mc squared		sci-famous-scientists
Marie Curie	Discovered polonium and radium; studied radioactivity; won two Nobel Prizes		sci-famous-scientists
Charles Darwin	Theory of evolution by natural selection		sci-famous-scientists
Galileo Galilei	Used the telescope to find Jupiter's moons and supported a Sun-centered system		sci-famous-scientists
Nicolaus Copernicus	Proposed that the Earth orbits the Sun		sci-famous-scientists
Johannes Kepler	Laws of planetary motion		sci-famous-scientists
Louis Pasteur	Germ theory, pasteurization and vaccines		sci-famous-scientists
Alexander Fleming	Discovered penicillin in 1928		sci-famous-scientists
Edward Jenner	Created the first smallpox vaccine		sci-famous-scientists
Gregor Mendel	Father of genetics, through pea plant experiments		sci-famous-scientists
Rosalind Franklin	X-ray images that helped reveal DNA's structure		sci-famous-scientists
James Watson and Francis Crick	Proposed the double helix structure of DNA in 1953		sci-famous-scientists
Dmitri Mendeleev	Created the first widely used periodic table		sci-famous-scientists
Antoine Lavoisier	Father of modern chemistry; named oxygen and hydrogen		sci-famous-scientists
John Dalton	Atomic theory of matter		sci-famous-scientists
J. J. Thomson	Discovered the electron		sci-famous-scientists
Ernest Rutherford	Discovered the atomic nucleus		sci-famous-scientists
Niels Bohr	Model of the atom with electron shells		sci-famous-scientists
James Chadwick	Discovered the neutron		sci-famous-scientists
Robert Hooke	Named cells after looking at cork		sci-famous-scientists
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	First to see bacteria and single-celled life with a microscope		sci-famous-scientists
Robert Boyle	Boyle's law about gases		sci-famous-scientists
Michael Faraday	Electromagnetic induction		sci-famous-scientists
James Clerk Maxwell	Equations of electromagnetism		sci-famous-scientists
Benjamin Franklin	Studied electricity and lightning		sci-famous-scientists
Alessandro Volta	Invented the battery		sci-famous-scientists
Nikola Tesla	Alternating current systems		sci-famous-scientists
Thomas Edison	Practical light bulb and phonograph		sci-famous-scientists
Alexander Graham Bell	Patented the telephone in 1876		sci-famous-scientists
Stephen Hawking	Studied black holes and the universe		sci-famous-scientists
Edwin Hubble	Showed the universe is expanding		sci-famous-scientists
Carl Sagan	Astronomer who made science popular on television		sci-famous-scientists
Jane Goodall	Studied wild chimpanzees in Tanzania		sci-famous-scientists
Dian Fossey	Studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda		sci-famous-scientists
Rachel Carson	Wrote Silent Spring, about pesticides and nature		sci-famous-scientists
Jacques Cousteau	Ocean explorer who co-invented the aqualung		sci-famous-scientists
Sylvia Earle	Oceanographer and deep-sea explorer		sci-famous-scientists
Mae Jemison	Doctor and first African American woman in space		sci-famous-scientists
Katherine Johnson	NASA mathematician who calculated orbits for early space flights		sci-famous-scientists
Ada Lovelace	Wrote an early computer program in the 1840s		sci-famous-scientists
Charles Babbage	Designed an early mechanical computer		sci-famous-scientists
Alan Turing	Pioneer of computer science and codebreaker		sci-famous-scientists
Grace Hopper	Computer pioneer who helped create early programming languages		sci-famous-scientists
George Washington Carver	Agricultural scientist who promoted peanuts and crop rotation		sci-famous-scientists
Archimedes	Ancient Greek who studied levers and buoyancy		sci-famous-scientists
Aristotle	Greek thinker who classified living things		sci-famous-scientists
Hippocrates	Ancient Greek physician called the Father of Medicine		sci-famous-scientists
Euclid	Ancient Greek mathematician known for geometry		sci-famous-scientists
Eratosthenes	Ancient Greek who measured the Earth's size		sci-famous-scientists
Ptolemy	Ancient astronomer who put Earth at the center		sci-famous-scientists
Carl Linnaeus	Created the two-part naming system for species		sci-famous-scientists
Alfred Wegener	Proposed continental drift		sci-famous-scientists
Wilhelm Roentgen	Discovered X-rays in 1895		sci-famous-scientists
Enrico Fermi	Built the first nuclear reactor in 1942		sci-famous-scientists
Max Planck	Founder of quantum theory		sci-famous-scientists
Richard Feynman	Physicist known for quantum electrodynamics and teaching		sci-famous-scientists
Lise Meitner	Helped explain nuclear fission		sci-famous-scientists
Chien-Shiung Wu	Physicist whose experiment changed ideas about particle physics		sci-famous-scientists
Percy Julian	Chemist who made medicines from plants		sci-famous-scientists
Elizabeth Blackwell	First woman to earn a medical degree in the United States		sci-famous-scientists
Florence Nightingale	Nurse who improved hospitals and used statistics		sci-famous-scientists
Clara Barton	Founded the American Red Cross		sci-famous-scientists
Jonas Salk	Developed the first successful polio vaccine		sci-famous-scientists
Barbara McClintock	Discovered jumping genes in corn		sci-famous-scientists
Tu Youyou	Discovered a malaria treatment, won a Nobel Prize in 2015		sci-famous-scientists
Jennifer Doudna	Co-developed the CRISPR gene-editing method		sci-famous-scientists