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350
Hypatia
Math: taught mathematicians
the astro lay
number theory
invented the hydroscope and astrolabe
wrote astronomical manuals: “Ptolemy’s Almagest”
Science: Edited her father’s work on matters such as “The Elements” by Euclid, etc. -
Period: 350 to 415
Hypatia
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470
SOCRATES
Law and theory and known as one of the starters in the western system and logic. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Explained how a telescope worked
Explained how the moon affected the tide
Died:1630 -
Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Johannes Kepler
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Period: to
Charles Boyle
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Charles Boyle
Created gas laws
(Pressure x volume = temperature of gases, etc.) -
Ben Franklin
Invented the rocking chair
Well known inventor
Electricity
Helped in politics
Invented the lightning rod, conducted the famous kite-and-key experiment, and found a way to convert electricity into an energy source
Died: April 17, 1790 -
Period: to
Ben Franklin
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John Daltion
Created Color-blindness test.
He made the atomic theory.
First to investigate eyes and why they saw what they did.
Died:July 27, 1844 -
Period: to
John Daltion
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Christian Doppler
Creating the Doppler Effect which was sound and frequency depends where the observer is and how the object is moving.
“ Father of Genetics”
Was a teacher and taught Gregor Mendel
Died: March 17, 1863 -
Period: to
Christian Doppler
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Charles Darwin
Evolution Theory
Natural Selection
Died: April 19th, 1882 -
Period: to
Charles Darwin
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Florence Nightingale
Started first secretion school
Started the St. Thomas Hospital
Wrote notes on her nursing experience
Died:August 13, 1910 -
Period: to
Florence Nightingale
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Alfred Nobel
Created a safer way to use explosives
Created the Nobel Prize, the most prestigious and honorable prizes in the world
Invented dynamite
Died: December 10th 1896 -
Period: to
Alfred Nobel
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Thomas Edison
invented the first talking doll
invented the light bulb,phonograph
invented motion picture
1,093 patents
record
October 18,1931 -
Period: to
Thomas Edison
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Marie Curie
Physicist and Chemist
Discovered elements like Uranium, Polonium, Radium and also radioactivity
Died: July 4, 1934 -
Period: to
Marie Curie
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Period: to
Alfred Wegener
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Period: to
Harry Hess
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Harry Hess
He revived the plate tectonic theory that was made by Alfred wegner. He noticed that the continents were moving. It was called seafloor spreading.
Died:August 25, 1969 -
Wernher Von Braun
German rocket maker and space architect
Worked for Wehrmacht (German Army) and developed missiles
Died: June 16, 1977 -
Period: to
Wernher Von Braun
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Richard P. Feynman
Manhattan Project
Taught Physics at the University of California
Developed the Feynman diagrams for physics
Died: February 15, 1988 -
Period: to
Richard P. Feynman
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Rosalind Franklin
Photograph 51
DNA double helix model
Structural biology
Died: April 16,1958 -
Period: to
Rosalind Franklin
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Joanne Simpson
First female meteorologist
Created Models of hurricanes, clouds etc
Died: 3/4/2010 -
Period: to
Joanne Simpson
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Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin
Selected in 1963 to be on the Gemini 12 project
Second man on the moon. -
Neil Armstrong
July 20th, 1989 First Man on the Moon
Died:August 25, 2012 -
Period: to
Neil Armstrong
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Stephen Hawking
Cosmologist, Physicist
Blackhole Mechanics Theories
Helped develop boundless universe theory -
Sally Ride
1st female astronaut in space -
Period: to
Sally Ride
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Carl Edward Sagan
Professor at Harvard
Created “Cosmos” in 1980
Hero of the “Space Race”
Essential part of NASA and the Space Race
Helped design the Pioneer 10 & 11
Died: December 20, 1996
Briefed Apollo astronauts -
Period: to
Carl Edward Sagan
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Plato
Built his own college in Athens
Quoted many famous sentences for others to learn from
