Scientist Timeline

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    Hypatia

    Hypatia
    Philospoher, Astronomer, one of the first mathematicians, and she created one of the first astrtolabes.
  • Feb 19, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Nicholas Copernicus
    He helped prove Earth was not in the center of the universe and he discovered the heliocentric model.
  • Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
    Created laws of planetary motion, Kepler’s equation and Kepler’s triangle.
  • Sir Issac Newton

    Sir Issac Newton
    An astronomer, Newtons 3 laws, Defined gravity, invented “astronomy” and “calculus”, Started space race.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Discovered that lightning is electricity and invented the lightning rod.
  • Benjamin Banneker

    Benjamin Banneker
    He created America’s first fully functional clock
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    Dalton’s Law, helped with Atomic theory, and Published a book about the Atomic Theory in 1808
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday
    Electromagnet and physicist and chemist
  • Christian Doppler

    Christian Doppler
    Discovered the Higgs Boson and HIGGS FIELD.
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    Created the theory of evolution and natural selection.
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    books set standards for all military hospitals
  • Albert Nobel

    Albert Nobel
    Invented dynamite and 355 other patents, and established the nobel prize.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev
    Created the order of The Periodic Table and wrote a textbook on The Principles pf Chemistry
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Made light bulb more practical.
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    Discovered radium, recieved two nobel prizes in Chemistry and Physics for discovering radioactivity and isolating radium.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    E=mc^2, Theory of Relativity, and Equations didn’t include gravity so they needed to be improved.
  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling
    He discovered the Nature of chemical bonds
  • Dorothy Hodgkin

    Dorothy Hodgkin
    Invented X-Ray Crystallography, Penicillin, and Vitamin B12
  • Wernher Von Braun

    Wernher Von Braun
    The director of NASA rocketry program and V.P. at Fairchild Industry.
  • Ted Fujita

    Ted Fujita
    He created Fujita scale to categorize tornadoes and he invented the macroburst and he invented microburst.
  • Watson, Crick, Wilkins

    Watson, Crick, Wilkins
    They discovered DNA, Found replication of DNA, andReceived Nobel Peace Prize
  • Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall
    primatologist and did a lot of Biology
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan
    astronomer, and created the Theory of the greenhouse effect
  • Hwang Woo-Suk

    Hwang Woo-Suk
    Had a theory about cloning and he successfully cloned a dog in 2004.
  • Steven Jobs

    Steven Jobs
    He and his “buddy” made the first mac computer and he started Apple.
  • Mae Jemison

    Mae Jemison
    She studied bone cells in space and was first black person in space.
  • Brian Greene

    Brian Greene
    String Theory- made it popular and a Professor at Columbia University
  • Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Astronomer