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Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE
Aristotle
384 - 322 BCE- He is famous for his work virtue
- He admired the work of Socrates
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Period: 287 BCE to 212 BCE
Archimedes
287 - 212 BCE -He discovered how to find out the area and circumference of a circle
-He invented the lever -
Period: Mar 7, 1452 to Mar 7, 1519
Leonardo Da Vinci
1452 AD - 1519 -He painted the Mona Lisa
-He drew designs for a submarine -
Period: Mar 7, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
1564 - 1642 AD- He discovered four moons that orbit Jupiter
- He had a beard
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Isaac Newton
1642 - 1727 AD -He saw an apple fall from a tree which led him to developing the laws of the universe
-He created Calculus, one of the main branches of mathematics -
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Maria Sibylla Merian
1647 - 1717 AD -She was a talented German artist
-She was one of the first to observe live insects rather than preserved specimens -
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Thomas Edison
1847 - 1931- He invented the light bulb and the camera.
- He took a total of 1093 patents
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Marie Curie
1867 - 1934 AD -She discovered polonium and radium
-She led the first studies with radioactive isotpes in the treatment of cancer -
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Lise Meitner
1878 - 1968 AD- She didn't get enough recognition in science even though she was on eof the main contributors of the twentieth century
- When Austria was annexed by Germany, she fleed as a refugee
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George Hitchings
1905 - 1998 AD
- Earned his PhD in 1933
- He put two thirds of his time to Science -
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Maria Goeppert Mayer
1906 - 1972
- She discovered that the protons and neutrons inside an atom are arranged in shells
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Gertrude Elion
1918 -1999 AD
- She was an assistant to George Hitchings
- She developed the first chemotherapy for leukaemia in children -
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Stephen Hawking
1942 -- He sat in the same chair as Isaac Newton - The professorial chair
- He appeared in Star Trek and The Big Bang Theory.