Famous Scientists

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  • Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Gallilei

    Galileo Gallilei
    1. Galileo galilie
    2. Born- February 15, 1564;
      Death- January 8, 1642
    3. Galileo is remembered for discovering the laws for falling bodies and motions of projectiles in physics.
    4. He was in his late 30’s, early 40’s when he claimed his way to fame.
    5. He died at the age of 77 on January 8 1642 (because of fever and heart palpitations)
    6. He has been called the “father of observational astronomy “, the “father of modern physics” the “father of science” and the “father of modern science”.

  • Otto Von Guericke

    Otto Von Guericke
    1. Otto von Guericke
    2. (birth)November 20, 1602. (death ) May 21, 16863.
    3. Ø Otto von Guericke was a German scholar who invented the first air pump, in 1650. An air pump is a device in which air or other gases may be removed from an enclosed space. Through his invention and other vacuum experiments, Otto contributed to the basic principles of the physics of fluids and gases.
    4. 48 years old
    5. 84 years old
    6. Otto von Guericke invented a machine that produced static electricity.

  • Evangelista Torricelli

    Evangelista Torricelli
    1. Evangelista Torricelli
    2. Born- October 15, 1608; Faenza, Province of Ravenna, Papal States. Died- October 25, 1647; Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
    3. He was best known for his invention of the Mercury barometer.
    4. He was at around the age of 35 when he claimed his way to fame
    5. Torricelli died in Florence on 25 October 1647 (aged 39). 6. Torricelli was the first to provide the scientific evidence of the cause of wind.

  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal
    1. Blaise Pascal
    2. (birth)19 June 1623 (death ) 19 August 1662
    3. Invented the early calculator. Also in the 1640s, he validated Torricelli's theory concerning the cause of barometrical variations. In the 1650s, Pascal laid the foundation of probability theory.
    4. 19 years old
    5. 39 years old
    6. Even though Pascal didn't go to high school or college he was well taught from his parents and became a mathematician.

  • Christiaan Huygens

    Christiaan Huygens
    Christiaan Huygens
    Birth:14 April 1629
    Death: 8 July 1695
    He also made important contributions to mechanics, stating that in a collision between bodies, neither loses nor gains "motion'' (his term for momentum) Matter in motion made up the universe. He studied elastic collisions in the 1650s but delayed publication for over a decade.
    31 years old
    65 years old
    he discovered one of Saturn's moons—later named Titan

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    John Dalton
    6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844
    Dalton’s atomic model is one of the fundamentals of physics and chemistry. This theory of atomic composition was hypothesized and partially confirmed by the English chemist and Physicist John Dalton. He discovered that certain gases only could be combined in certain proportions even if two different compounds shared the same common element or group of elements.
    78 yrs old
    John Dalton and his brother were born color-blind.

  • Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto

    Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto
    Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto
    9 August 1776, Turin, Piedmont – 9 July 1856
    He is most noted for his contributions to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law.vogadro's law is an experimental gas law relating volume of a gas to the amount of substance of gas present.
    35 years old
    Avogadro was honored to appear on an Italian Stamp.