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Jan 1, 1000
Aristotle (384 B.C.)
Born 384 BC AND DIED 322 BC
He was a Greek philospher and astronmer. -
May 28, 1001
Hypatia (340 AD)
Birth: 340 A.D.
Death: 415 A.D.
She was one of the first women in mathematics also a philosopher, astronomer and created early astrolabe -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Born February 19th 1473
Death: May 24th, 1543
He proved that the Earth wasn't the center of the Universe. He also invented the Heliocentric Model. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Birth : December 27th, 1571
Death :November 15,1630
He came up with the Laws of planetary motion, Kepler’s equation and Kepler’s triangle -
Isaac Newton
Born December 25th, 1642 and died March 31st, 1727. He came up with Newtons 3 laws of motion, gravity and invented Calculus and Astronomy. -
Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin was born Jan. 17, 1706 and died on April 17th, 1790. He discovered electricity and invented the lightning rod. -
Benjamin Banneker
Born on November 9th, 1731 and died on October 9, 1806. He invented America's first clock that worked -
John Dalton
Born Sep. 6, 1766 and died July 27,1844. He established Dalton’s Law, helped with Atomic theory, and Published a book about the Atomic Theory in 1808 -
Micheal Faraday
Birth: September 2nd, 1791
Death: August 25, 1867
He worked with Electromagnets and electrochemistry. He also came up with the theory of Electromagnet rotation which is the basis of the electric motor. He also discovered electromagnetic induction. -
Christian Doppler
Birth: November 29th, 1803
Death: March 17,1853
He came up with the Doppler Effect in 1842. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born Feb. 12, 1809 and died on October 18, 1931. He came up with the theory of Evoloution and Natural selection. -
Florence Nightingale
Birth: May 12, 1820
Death: August 13, 1910
She was a nurse who saw the conditions of hostpitals and wanted to change them. She wrote many books that set the standards for medical care in the military today. -
Albert Nobel
Born Oct. 21, 1833 and died December 10, 1896. He invented Dynamite and established the Nobel Prize -
Thomas Edison
Born Feb. 11, 1847 And died Oct, 18, 1931. He invented the lightbulb -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was born nov 7, 1867 and died july 4, 1934. She discovered radium and worked with radioactivity. She also won two Nobel Prizes -
Albert Einstein
Birth: March 14th, 1879
Death: April 18,1955
He came up with E=mc^2 and the Theory of Relativity. -
Linus Pauling
Birth: February 28 1902
Death: August 19, 1994
He Discovered the Nature of chemical bonds -
Dorothy Hodgkin
Born May 12th, 1910 and died July 29,1994 invented/discovered X-Ray Crystallography, Penicillin and Vitamin B12 -
Wernher Von Braun
Birth : March 23rd, 1912
Death :June 16, 1977
He was a director of NASA rocketry program
and V.P. at Fairchild Industries -
Watson, Crick, Wilkins
Birth:April 6th, 1928 (Watson)
Death: 2004
Birth:June 8th, 1916 (Crick)
Death: still living
Birth: December 16, 1916
(Wilkins)
Death: still living
-Discovered DNA
-Found replication of DNA
-Received Nobel Peace Prize -
Ted Fujita
Born on Oct. 23 1920
Died: Nov. 19 1998
Created Fujita scale to categorize tornadoes. He also invented macroburst and the microburst -
Peter Higgs
Birth:May 29th, 1929
Death: still living
He discovered the Higgs Boson (Particle.) He also reveivced a Nobel Prize for his work with physics. -
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall made many dicoveries about primates and how much like humans they are. She also founded the Jane Goodall Foundation to protect endangered species. -
Carl Sagan
Born November 9th, 1934 and died December 20, 1996. He was an astronomer and created the Theory of the greenhouse effect. He was also on Cosmos. -
Mae Jemison
Birth: October 17, 1956
Death: still living
She studied bone cells in space, and was also the first black person in space. -
Brian Greene
Born February 9th, 1963, and is still living. He came up with the string theory and was a professor at Columbia University -
Steven Jobs
Birth: February 24, 1955
Death:October 5, 2011
He founded Apple and he and Steve Wozniak created the first Mac computer -
Hwang Woo Suk
Birth: Jan. 29, 1953
Death: still living
He came up with a theory about cloning and cloned a dog in 2004.
