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Hypatia
born:350-370 AD
Died:415 AD
-never married
-devoted life to studies.
-killed by christian group that stripped and disassembled her with broken pottery and burned her. -
Jan 1, 1287
Archimedes
Born: 287 B.C. (in Syracuse, Italy)
Died:212 B.C.
is known for Archimedes principle
- invented the water screw, pulley, and war machines
-discovered water displacement/ ran through the streets naked after discovery. left italy for studies and went to egypt
-born in Italy
- unknown for anything
about his personal life
-discovered this while he was in the bathtub and got really excited and was told through the streets naked -
Jan 1, 1428
Plato
Born:428 B.C
Died:328 B.C.
-father of idealism in philosophy.
Greek philosopher
-went to the academy athens
-founded a philosophical school -
Benjamin Banneker
Born:November 9, 1731
Died: October 9,1806
(Age 74)
-Predicted Lunar and Solar eclipses
- Was an astronomer
- farmer and astronomer
-learned astronomy
- learned how to predict solar and lunar eclipses
- Predicted his own death at age 70 but lived 4 years later. -
John Dalton
1766-1844; born in Eaglesfield, England
-Eventually became a chemist; started as a meteorologist; -was the first scientist to say everything in the universe is made up of microscopic atoms
-they(him and his brother) were color blind and he figured out it was genetic; -color blind is genetic;
not being able to see red or green is called daltonism;
he is color blind -
Charles Darwin
born:February 12, 1809
died: 1882 -Founded theory of evolution
-Darwin’s Finches
-studied mostly on galapagos islands -naturalist and geologist
-Was a naturalist and a geologist
majored/studied in the medical field -
Gregor Mendel
Born: July 20, 1822
Died: January 6, 1884
-Discovered the principles of heredity(mental and physical traits are passed genetically)
-Botanist
- Father of modern genetics
-was a monk
-went to the university vienna
-The father of genetics
- Never had a spouse or children
- Used pea plants to study hereditary
- died of kidney inflammation -
Florence Bascom
born:July 14,1862
died:june 18,1945
was a geologist
- was considered pioneer in women's rights and helped lead the way for other women -lived to be 83 years old
went to university of w -youngest out of 6 kid
-and went john hawkins university
-never got married and never had children
-interest in geology was from her father -
Albert Einstein
Born: March 14, 1879
Died: April 18, 1955
- E=mc squared
-theory of relativity
-photoelectric theory -Went to ETH Zurich
-Went to University of Zurich
-He was a slow learner
-He had a really big head as a child -
Niels Bohr
Born: October 7, 1885
Died: November 18, 1962
-created a picture of the atomic structure
- Bohr’s liquid droplet theory
-received his master degree -had 6 children and was married -
Percy Lavon Julian
Born-April 11,1899
Died-April 19, 1975
Developed a drug that helped treat glaucoma
Taught college chemistry
-Developed aerofoam (fire extinguisher) that is used by the Navy
-cause of death was liver cancer -Oldest of six other siblings
-graduated from Depauw,Harvard and University of Vienna -he was called the soybean chemist -
Robert Oppenheimer
Born:1904 22 in New York
Died: 1967 18 in New Jersey
helped create the atomic bomb
part of the manhattan project
-graduated from university of Gottingen
-married Katherine Puening
studied biology -
Neil Armstrong
born:August 5th 1930
Died:August 25, 2012
masters in aerospace
he was a pilot for the gemini 8 mission
- left a legacy and played a major role in the space knowledge was an eagle scout- flew combat missions
- Had a developed interest in flight he has two sons -
James E west
Born:1931 in Virginia
Died:still alive
-invented the microphone
-developed the electro-acoustics
-Attended Temple University
-experienced racism
-Married Matilda
- He had 4 children -
Jane Goodall
born:April 3, 1934
died: still alive
- Her contribution she learned how they interacted with each other
-Founded Jane Goodall institute
- studied by seeing how they reacted with each other for over 45 years
-Won benjamin franklin medal -
Stephen Hawking
Born:January 8 1942
Died: still living
- Black hole theory- Matter in the form of radiation can escape the gravitational force of a collapsed star.
-Studied physics and astronomy
-St Albans School
-oldest of 4 -born 300 years after galileo's death
