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May 27, 1200
Plato
Born 428 BC
Died 348 BC Greek Philosopher and mathmetician
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May 28, 1250
Aristotle
Died 322 BC Essentially everything in science Incorrectly theorized the shape of our solar system one of the first recorded scientists in history tutored Alexander the Great -
May 28, 1350
Hypatia
Born 350 AD
Died 415 AD Others contibutions to science have been based off her research Egyptian Never married was attacked by religious people first woman astronomer -
May 28, 1473
Nicholas Copernicus
Died May 24, 1543 discovered the earth revolves around the sun was the foundation for space learning no family -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Died November 15 1630 Keplers law of planetary motion Invented and improved version of the telescope he is of German heritage had seven children went to three colleges -
Isaac Newton
Died March 31 1727
Telescope discovered gravity 3 Laws of Motion he never married his dog caught his 20 yr research on fire. -
Caroline Herschel
Died January 9 1848 First women to discover a comet Helped her brother discover Uranus She never went to college Her brother taught her math and science. Had typhus and grew only to be 4’2’’ as an adult. -
Michael Faraday
Died 1867 electromagnetic
electric motor inventor,chemist and psychologist -
Alfred Nobel
Died December 10, 1896\ Dynamite Detonation cap Nobel Prize Did not go to public school. Always had a private tutor. Left his fortune as a prize for the Nobel Peace Prize Killed his brother and 3 other people in an experiment. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
Died February 7, 1907 Designed the periodic table Discovered the first 60 elements youngest of fourteen kids His father was blind -
Thomas Edison
Died October 18 1931 Patented light bulb Phonograph Commercial Energy Direct Current (DC) Attended public school for only 12 weeks Newspaper boy Wife died of brain tumor made quadruple telegraph Was pretty much deaf his entire life He killed puppies for a “reason” -
Nikola Tesla
Died January 7, 1943
AC, Radar, Death Ray, Remote Control, and the Tesla Coil Worked with Thomas Edison and was rivals with him Lived in poverty July 10 = Tesla Day -
Marie Curie
Died 1934 discovered radium and
polonium Became a governess to pay for her tuition.
graduated first in her class Won 2 Nobel Prizes
first lady in poland to hold an important job. -
Albert Einstien
Died April 18 1955 Mass-energy equivalence formula
the refridgerator went to 4 universities had 2 wives and moved around Europe Has a doctors degree and a mathmatics degree won the nobel prize and was called the smartest man alive -
Alfred Wegener
Body Found November 2, 1930 Theorised continental drift Used balloons to track wind currents Heavy Smoker -
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Died 1994 molecule structure with x-ray analysis first woman to win nobel prize in U.K. Started loving science during WWI was a tutor and professor -
Richard Phillips Feynman
Died February 15 1988 Atomic Bomb Revolutionized Quantum Mechanics He wrote several books and journals -
Rosalind Franklin
Died April 16 1958 Discovered the double helix (DNA) Discovered the A and B DNA Won the Nobel prize first university named after a women -
Ted Fujita
Died November 19 1998 Fujita Scale Education from university of Tokyo studied bgb systems -
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology participated in the world’s first successful launch married 3 times was on dancing with the stars Apollo 11 -
Joanne Simpson
Died March 4 2010 first woman to get a Phd in meteorology and become a meteorologist first female meteorologist became interested in weather since five years of age while sailing Cape Cod -
Stephen Hawking
Still Alive went to 2 Universities Has 3 Kids and 3 Grand Kids Hawking Radiation The Study of Black Holes Astronomy and Physics Has Motor Neuron Disease -
Hwang Woo-Suk
cloned multiple animals in 2004 claimed he had cloned human embryoes cloned an afgan dog named Snuppy
