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Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE
Aristotle
Interesting Facts:
1. He created The Scientific Method, which is still very commonly used today.
2. He was a philosopher. At the time, philosophy included what we now call science. -
Period: 370 BCE to 415 BCE
Hypatia
Interesting Facts:
1. She was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and philosopher in Egypt
2. She was the head of a school in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy (her birthdate is unknown) -
Period: 287 BCE to 212 BCE
Archimedes
Interesting Facts:
1. He discovered why some items float and some sink
2. He invented many things, some which are still used today -
Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519
Leonardo Da Vinci
Interesting Facts:
1. He invented many things, most of which couldn't be created in his time but were made later on
2. He is most famous for painting the Mona Lisa which is still on display in Paris. -
Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
Interesting Facts:
1. He discovered that the planets in the solar system revolve around the sun and not earth.
2. For this discovery, he received a lot of hate from the church in particular. -
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Isaac Newton
Interesting Facts:
1. He discovered a lot of things, including calculus.
2. He discovered the theory gravity after an apple famously fell on his head. -
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Maria Sibylla Merian
Interesting Facts:
1. She was one of the first Scientists to use live insects in her experiments
2. She was the first person to document the change a caterpillar takes to become a butterfly. -
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Emilie du Chatelet
Interesting Facts:
1. She was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and author.
2. She translated a famous Isaac Newton book on the basic laws of physics into French. -
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Ada Lovelace
Interesting Facts:
1. She was a mathematician and a writer
2. She did work on a concept computer -
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Marie Curie
Interesting Facts:
1. She was the first person (male or female) to win two Nobel Prizes
2. She discovered two new radioactive elements. -
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Maria Goeppert Mayer
Interesting Facts:
1. She discovered that the protons and neutrons inside an atom are shaped in a shell shape
2. She won a Nobel Prize. -
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Gertrude Elion
Interesting Facts:
1. She discovered many revolutionary drugs used in chemotherapy and organ transplants
2. She won a Nobel prize in medicine for her groundbreaking discoverey -
Period: to
Rosalind Franklin
Interesting Facts:
1. She was a chemist and X-Ray crystallographer
2. She made many discoveries about DNA and its molecular structure