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Famous Scientists and Inventors (Past)
Great scientists of history and what each is known for.
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- Isaac NewtonPersonLaws of motion and gravity (1600s)
- Albert EinsteinPersonTheory of relativity (1900s)
- Galileo GalileiPersonUsed a telescope to study the Moon and Jupiter's moons (1600s)
- Marie CuriePersonStudied radioactivity; won two Nobel Prizes
- Charles DarwinPersonTheory of evolution by natural selection (1859)
- Louis PasteurPersonGerm theory, pasteurization and vaccines
- Nikola TeslaPersonAlternating current electricity and many inventions
- Thomas EdisonPersonLight bulb, phonograph, and many patents
- Alexander Graham BellPersonTelephone
- Leonardo da VinciPersonPainter and inventor who sketched flying machines (1400s-1500s)
- CopernicusPersonSaid the planets orbit the Sun (1500s)
- Johannes KeplerPersonLaws of planetary motion (1600s)
- ArchimedesPersonAncient Greek who found the principle of buoyancy
- AristotlePersonGreek thinker who studied many sciences
- PtolemyPersonAncient astronomer who mapped the stars
- Gregor MendelPersonFounder of genetics using pea plants
- Rosalind FranklinPersonHer X-ray work helped reveal DNA's structure
- Ada LovelacePersonWrote the first computer program idea
- Alan TuringPersonFounder of modern computing ideas (1900s)
- Michael FaradayPersonElectricity and magnetism experiments
- James Clerk MaxwellPersonEquations of light and electricity
- Dmitri MendeleevPersonCreated the periodic table (1869)
- Antoine LavoisierPersonFather of modern chemistry
- Robert HookePersonLooked at cork and named 'cells'
- Antonie van LeeuwenhoekPersonSaw tiny microbes with early microscopes
- Edward JennerPersonDeveloped the smallpox vaccine
- Florence NightingalePersonFounder of modern nursing
- Joseph ListerPersonUsed clean methods in surgery
- Alexander FlemingPersonDiscovered penicillin
- Jonas SalkPersonCreated a polio vaccine
- Wilhelm RoentgenPersonDiscovered X-rays (1895)
- Ernest RutherfordPersonShowed that atoms have a nucleus
- Niels BohrPersonModel of the atom
- Max PlanckPersonStarted quantum theory
- Stephen HawkingPersonStudied black holes (1942-2018)
- Carl LinnaeusPersonCreated the system for naming living things
- Alfred WegenerPersonProposed continental drift
- Edwin HubblePersonShowed other galaxies exist and the universe expands
- Henrietta LeavittPersonFound a way to measure distances to stars
- Annie Jump CannonPersonSorted stars into classes
- Mary AnningPersonFossil hunter who found early marine reptile skeletons
- George Washington CarverPersonTaught farmers about crop rotation and peanut uses
- Rachel CarsonPersonWrote Silent Spring about nature and pesticides
- HypatiaPersonAncient mathematician and teacher in Alexandria
- PythagorasPersonGreek thinker linked to the triangle rule
- EuclidPersonWrote the Elements, a famous geometry book
- Blaise PascalPersonMathematician who studied pressure and probability
- Evangelista TorricelliPersonInvented the barometer
- Robert BoylePersonStudied gases and pressure
- Benjamin FranklinPersonStudied lightning and invented the lightning rod
- Lise MeitnerPersonHelped explain nuclear fission
- Katherine JohnsonPersonNASA mathematician who calculated spaceflight paths
- Wright brothersPersonBuilt and flew the first successful airplane
- Samuel MorsePersonTelegraph and Morse code
- Guglielmo MarconiPersonWireless radio
- Henry FordPersonAssembly line cars
- James WattPersonImproved the steam engine
- Johannes GutenbergPersonPrinting press in Europe
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