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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 -
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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 -
Charles Boyle
Created gas laws
(Pressure x volume = temperature of gases, etc.) -
Ben Franklin
*Electricity
*Helped in politics
*Invented the lightning rod
*conducted the famous kite-and-key experiment
*found a way to convert electricity into an energy source -
Caroline Herschel
First woman to discover a comet. -
John Dalton
*Created Color-blindness test
*he made the atomic theory
*First to investigate eyes and why they saw what they did -
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 -
Charles Darwin
Evolution Theory
Natural Selection -
Florence Nightingale
*Started first secretion school
*Started the St. Thomas Hospital
*Wrote notes on her nursing experience -
Thomas Edison
*invented the first talking doll
*invented the light bulb,phonograph
*invented motion picture -
Marie Curie
Physicist and Chemist
Discovered elements like Uranium, Polonium, Radium and also radioactivity -
Alfred Wegener
plate tectonics theory -
Alfred Nobel
Chemist
Created a safer way to use explosives
Created the Nobel Prize, the most prestigious and honorable prizes in the world
Invented dynamite -
Harry Hess
He revived the plate tectonic theory that was made by Alfred wegner -
Wernher Von Braun
German rocket maker and space architect -
Richard P. Feynman
Manhattan Project
Taught Physics at the University of California
Developed the Feynman diagrams for physics -
Rosalind Franklin
Photograph 51
DNA double helix model
Structural biology -
Joanne Simpson
*First female meteorologist
*Created Models of hurricanes, clouds etc -
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 -
Stephen Hawking
Cosmologist, Physicist
Blackhole Mechanics Theories
Helped develop boundless universe theory -
Sally Ride
1st female astronaut in space -
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
Briefed Apollo astronauts -
Aristotle
Teacher
classification on plants and animals -
Plato
Built his own college in Athens
Quoted many famous sentences for others to learn from
