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1500
Scipione del Ferro
Ferro lived in Bologna, Italy; as a child he grew up working at a paper mill. Later in life he worked at the University of Bologna in Arithmetic and Geometry. Ferro helped mathematicians by finding the solution of the depressed cubic equation in the 1500s at the University he worked at. -
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era Mathematician and astronomer. He was one of the first people to create a heliocentric model; this would be the first quantitative heliocentric model in history. Heliocentric is the astronomical model in which the earth and planets revolves around the sun at the center of the solar system. This helped prove that the earth was not in the middle of the solar system, it proved the sun was in the middle and earth was one of the many planets circling it. -
1556
Niccolo Tartagila
Niccolo Tartagila was an Italian Mathematician engineer. Tartagila was the first to apply mathematics to the investigation of the paths of cannonballs. In 1556 Tartaila introduces the idea of using parentheses in math. This leads to modern society where we use it to help clarify numbers and to indicate multiplication. -
1557
Robert Recorde
Robert Recorde entered the University of Oxford about 1525, later he adopted medicine as a profession and went to the University of Cambridge. Later after studying medicine he went back to Oxford to teach math publicly. In 1557 Recorde invented the equal sign and also introduced the preexisting plus sign to English speakers. In modern days we still use equal signs and plus signs in math. -
Francois Viete
Francois Viete was a French mathematician who came from a family of merchants and attorneys. In 1558 he studied law at Politeris and graduated as a Bachelor of Laws. In 1591 Viete worked on a new algebra this new algebra has influenced math in modern times. Without the work of his New Algebra we would not have the Algebra we know today. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. Kepler was a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he was also a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz. Kepler lived in an era of uncertain when it came to the distinction between astronomy and astrology. In 1609 he became known for Keplers Laws of planets motion; these laws described the motions the planets had around the sun. -
William Harvey
William Harvey an English physician who made influence contributions in anatomy and physiology. Harvey was the first known physician in 1628 to describe in complete in detail the systemic circulation and properties of the blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by a organ called the heart. This has helped many physicians and it is still used today when learning about the anatomy. -
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student Guile. Torricelli's family was really poor and his father was a textile worker. In 1643 was universally credited for the invention of the mercury barometer. This mercury barometer is now used to help measure the atmospheric pressure, and it tells our GPS which direction we are going in. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke had an interest of all different subjects, for example he loved physics and astronomy all the way up to architecture. Not much is known of his life before one of his greatest discoveries. In 1665 Robert Hooke discovered and names the cell, Hooke found this discovery by looking at dead plant cell walls. His invention of the cell has tremendously helped understand what makes up every living thing. With the invention of the cell we now know what we are made of. -
Sir Issac Newton
Sir Issac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician. Sir Issac was a culminating figure of the scientific revolutions in the 17th century. In 1687 Sir Newton invented the Newtons Law of Gravitation. This tells that any particle of matter in the Universe attracts other particles. This has helped introduce us to gravity and explains how it works. We have learned this from Newton are applying to things like in space or learning gravity on earth. -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was a son of a soap maker in Boston. Benjamin became an apprentice printer for his brother James and his printing company. After creating the Franklin stove, in 1751 Benjamin turned to his interest in electricity. Benjamin used a kite and a key to test his theory that metal and lightning could create electricity. Electricity has made modern life so much easier, everything we do depends on electricity and Franklin's inventions. -
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta was an Italian physicist. Volta was also a professor pf physics at the Royal School of Como in 1774. In 1792, Volta started experimenting with metals and electricity. After this became the invention of the battery. The battery is used today for things such as toys and even things like cars. -
Hanaoka Seishu
Hanaoka Seishu was a Japanese physician, he has been remembered as one of the greatest surgeons in history. Hanaoka was during the period of Chinese herbal medicine. In 1804 during a partial mastectomy for breast cancer Hanaoka used tsusensan for an anesthetic. Anesthetics are used during surgeries to put you to sleep so you don't feel anything, they are still used in modern times. -
Christian Doppler
Christian Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. Doppler was born into a wealthy family of stone masons, he was to take over the business but due to his wealth being very poor he could not do that. In 1842 Doppler noticed when sound waves had a higher frequency things were close, and when they had a lower frequency things were far, this is known as the Doppler Effect. Today in modern times we use this in police radars and to track storms. -
Friedrich Reinitzer
Friedrich Reinitzer was an Australian botanist and chemist. He studied chemistry at the German Technical University in Prague. In 1888 he discovered a behavior which would be called liquid crystals. The attention on this discovery would later be dropped. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was born in New York city he was the first of his family to attend college. Salk went to the New York University of Medicine and a got a medical degree. In 1951 Salk determined there was three different types of the polio virus, with this information he soon makes a vaccine. This discovery has helped save the lives of so many others and has gave insight to the polio virus. -
Klaus Van Klitzing
Klaus Van Kiltzing is a German physicist known for the discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect. The quantum hall effect let him win the Nobel prize in 1985. The discovery of the Quantum Hall Effect has been considered the turning point in condensed matter physics. -
The Roslin Institute
The Roslin Institute was established in the village of Roslin, Scotland for a independent research center. In 1996 the institute created Dolly the sheep the very first cloned mammal. Dolly was cloned from the transfer of the nucleus of an adult sheep cell into an ovum with the nucleus removed. This has helped the agriculture business and has helped scientist clone many more adult sheep -
James Watson
James Watson was the leader of the Human Genome Project, Watson was an molecular biologist. Watson and a group of scientists in 2001 published the Human Genome Project. The Human Genome Project was a project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA and mapping them out. The Human Genome Project has helped scientist carry out smaller researches easier. -
The Higgs Boson
July 4, 2012 at the CERNS Large Hadron Collider announced they had found a new particle in the mass region; the particle was around 125GEV. This particle had made the Higgs Boson to be true. The Higgs Boson is an elementary particle is an elementary particle in the standard model of particles . The CERN is the European Organization of Nuclear Research. They discovered the Higgs Boson.
