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Becquerel, Antoine
1788-1878
French
Discovered radioactivity
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Copernicus, Nicolaus
(Polish)
- founded modern astronomy
- declared that the sun is the center of the uninverse
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Curie, Marie and Pierre
(French)
discovered radium polonium
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Darwin, Charles
(English)
natural selection, theory of evolution
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Einstein, Albert
(German)
theory of relativity
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Fermi, Enrico
(Italian-American)
- radioactivity
- chain reactions
- H-bomb
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Fleming, Sir Alexander
(British)
discovered penicillin
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Galen
(ancient Greek)
- physician
- studied personalily
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Galileo
(Italian)
- astronomer and physicist
- laws of gravity
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Gauss, Carl Frederick
(German)
- mathematician and astronomer
- invented electric telegraph
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Herschel, Sir Fredrick William
(British)
astronomer
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Hippocrates
(ancient Greek)
- physician
- father of medicine
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Jenner, Edwards
(British)
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Lamarck, Chevalier de
( French)
- naturalist
- theory of inheritance and acquired characteistics
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Linnaeus, Carolus
(Swedish)
devised system of classifying living organisms
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Lister, Joseph
(Bristish)
- surgeon
- promoted actiseptic methods
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Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
(Soviet)
- geneticist
- follower of Lamarck
- led to demise of Soviet biology
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Mendel, Gregor
(Austrian)
- botanist
- transmission of characteristics in plants(genetics)
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Pasteur, Louis
(French)
- chemist
- germ theory
- use of heat to destroy bacteria
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Ptolemy
(Egypian)
- astronomer
- geocentric theory of solar system
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Rutherford, Ernest
(British)
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Sabin, Albert
(American)
developed oral vaccine against polio
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Salk, Jonas
(American)
developed first vaccine against polio
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Watson, James and Crick, Francis
(American)
- biophysicists
- discovered structure of DNA molecule (double helix)
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