Scientists

  • 1493

    Copernicus Born

  • 1514

    Copernicus creates “Little Commentary”

    A writing by Copernicus discussing his view on the heliocentric universe
  • 1543

    Copernicus Dies

  • Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Born

    In Pisa, Italy
  • 1574

    Moved to Florence, Italy

  • 1581

    Studied Medicine

    At the University of Pisa
  • Taught Mathematics

    At the University of Pisa
  • Started to show interest in astronomy

  • Read a book by Johannes Kepler

    The book was about Copernicus ideas on astronomy. Than after Galileo read the book he wrote a letter to the author, Johannes Kepler, stating that he agrees with the same ideas.
  • First Known Astronomical Observation

  • Discovered Jupiter’s 4 moons

  • Published the “Letterson Sunspots”

    This stated his opinion of a geocentric universe.
  • Copernicus’ book and ideas were banned in Rome

  • Florentine became Pope Urban VII

    Florentine admired Galileo
  • Galileo’s book appeared in Florence

  • Galileo was charged with “vehement suspicion of heresy”

  • Galileo died

  • Newton Born

  • Newton publishes “Mathematical Principals of Natural Phisiology”

    This discusses his view on all three laws of motion
  • Newton dies

  • Marie Curie born

    born in a warsaw, poland
  • Marie Curie graduates high school at age 15

  • She meets Pierre Curie and marries him

    Because she met her husband she did not want to go back to Poland
  • Marie Curie and her husband discover a new element

    She discovered an element that is 400 times more radioactive than anything else, it is called polonium
  • Marie received her doctorate degree in physics

    This was the first for a woman in France
  • So bonnets gave the Curies a new lab

  • Marie accepts Rutherford’s decay theory and Marie Curie dies

  • She gets her 2nd Nobel Prize in Chemistry