Science and Math Honors Timeline

• William Gilbert

Mar 28, 1581

scientific method

• Galileo Galilei

Mar 28, 1609

improvements to the telescope

• Christiaan Huygens

Mar 28, 1649

Centrifugal force

• Edme Mariotte

Mar 28, 1679

measured pressure of water flowing out of pipe

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Mar 28, 1684

claimed credit for discovering calculus

• Jakob Bernoulli

Mar 28, 1684

Professor of mathematics at the University of Basel- famous four success in using calculus

• Isaac Newton

Mar 28, 1687

gravitational equation

• Johann Bernoulli

Mar 28, 1691

contributed to infinitesimal calculus

• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Mar 28, 1714

unveiled the thermometer

• Nikolaus Bernoulli I

Mar 28, 1716

Galileo chair at University of Padua- worked on differential equations and geometry

• Nikolaus Bernoulli II

Mar 28, 1725

contributed to fluid dynamics

• John Kay

Mar 28, 1733

invented flying shuttle

• Daniel Bernoulli

Mar 28, 1738

wrote Hydrodynamics

• Anders Celsius

Mar 28, 1742

designed a simpler temperature scale

• Pieter van Musschenbroek

Mar 28, 1745

invented Leyden Jar

• Benjamin Franklin

Mar 28, 1750

studied electricity

• Edmund Halley

Mar 28, 1758

used newtons equation to figure out a comet was in orbit

• Joseph Black

Mar 28, 1761

discovered latent heat, specific heat and carbon dioxide

• James Hargreaves

Mar 28, 1765

invented machine that could spin eight stands of cotton at once

• Antoine Lavoisier

Mar 28, 1775

used calorimeter, discovered how heat maintained a constant temp. in human body

• Etienne & Joseph Montgolfier

Mar 28, 1783

first to get hot air balloon to fly

• Charles Augustin Coulomb

Mar 28, 1785

discovered the that the force between magnets diminished with the square of their separation

• Eli Whitney

Mar 28, 1787

invented cotton engine

• Edmund Cartwright

Mar 28, 1787

invented power loom

• Luigi Galvani

Mar 28, 1791

animal electricity

• Gregor Johann Mendel

Mar 28, 1800

discovered laws of heredity

• Alessandro Volta

Mar 28, 1800

Volta’s “piles”

• Robert Fulton

Mar 28, 1800

developed first successful steamboat

• Humphry Davy

Mar 28, 1805

famous chemist

• Julius Robert Mayer

Mar 28, 1814

Heat theory #4

• Hans Orsted

Mar 28, 1820

electric current

• Charles Lyell

Mar 28, 1822

wrote the principles of geology

• Gustave Gaspard Coriolis

Mar 28, 1829

added a factor to vis viva

• Michael Faraday

Mar 28, 1831

electromagnet equation

• John Herschel

Mar 28, 1833

heat powers all forms of life

• Samuel Finley Morse

Mar 28, 1844

Telegraph

• George Cayley

Mar 28, 1849

designed a flying machine that didn’t rely on flapping wings for lift

• Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius

Mar 28, 1850

thermodynamic inequality

• Ludwig Boltzmann

Mar 28, 1863

contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics

• Guglielmo Marchese Marconi

Mar 28, 1865

invented radio

• Alexander Graham Bell

Mar 28, 1865

invented telephone

Thomas Clifford Allbutt

Jan 1, 1866

invented the small clinical thermometer

• Thomas Alva Edison

Mar 28, 1879

invented the light bulb

• Albert Michelson and Edward Morley

Mar 28, 1881

compared speed of light

• Orville & Wilbur Wright

Mar 28, 1891

Airplane

• Marie and Pierre Curie

Mar 28, 1896

discovered radium and polonium

• Joseph John Thomson

Mar 28, 1897

discovered electrons

• Albert Einstein

Mar 28, 1904

energy equation

• Nikolai Zhukovsky

Mar 28, 1905

worked with airplanes

• Clyde Tombaugh

Mar 28, 1930

found Pluto

• Frederick Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curiem, Franz Strassmann and Otto Hahn

Mar 28, 1934

split uranium nucleus