(CAR) Discoveries and Inventions Flashcards
Alfred Wallace
- He Helped Discover Evolution, And Then Became Extinct.
- The research of British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) played a pivotal role in developing the theory of natural selection.
- But over time, Charles Darwin became almost universally thought of as the father of evolution.
Linus Pauling?
Linus Pauling —
‘The Vitamin C Man’ One of the most famous forerunners of high dose vitamin C treatment for colds and other disease was Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), a physical chemist and peace activist who won two Nobel Prize awards; one in chemistry in 1954, followed by a Nobel Peace Prize in 1962
Alexander Fleming?
Alexander Fleming. … In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) discovered penicillin, made from the Penicillium notatum mold, but he did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery until 1945
Dr. Ian Wilmut
An embryologist and best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly
Streptomycin was discovered by
Selman Waksman
Streptomycin is an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections
_____ recieved Nobel Prize for Unravelling the helical structure of proteins
Linus Pauling (In the 1950's, Linus Pauling became known as the founder of molecular biology due to his discovery of the spiral structure of proteins (Taton, 1964). Pauling's discoveries contributed to Watson and Crick's breakthrough of the DNA double helix.)
Who invented the polio vaccine (Oral) ?
- The first polio vaccine was the inactivated polio vaccine. It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955.
- The oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961.
Television was invented by
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird is the person who is given credit for inventing the television for the very first time. He experimented in an attic room in London for years until he succeeded in transmitting an old, moving, grayscale image of a talking ventriloquist dummy on a screen in 1925. He called it ‘the Televisor’
Transformer was invented by
Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri, Károly Zipernowsky of the Austro-Hungarian Empire First designed and used the transformer in both experimental, and commercial systems.
Steam Engine was invented by
James Watt FRS FRSE (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution
First rocket was invented by
n 1926, Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. Due to secrecy, the 1926 rocket did not have much influence on the later developments.
Safety Razor was invented by
In 1895, by King Camp Gillette
Teflon used for coating non-stick kitchenwareis the product of chance discovery by the scientist
Teflon was Invented by Accident. Today I found out Teflon was invented by accident. The man who accidentally invented it was Dr. Roy Plunket
First chemical analysis of protoplasm was made by
Punnet and Bateson
Sir William Henry Perkin?
Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline.
William Siemens?
Open-hearth process, also called Siemens-martin Process, steelmaking technique that for most of the 20th century accounted for the major part of all steel made in the world. William Siemens
The theory of mutation was given by
Hugo De Vires
Who invented motorcycle ?
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler of Germany invented the first gas-engined motorcycle. The gas engine was attached to a wooden bike
Who invented the cellophane?
Jacques E. Brandenberger
Electron was discovered by
Ernest Rutherford
Who discoverd the neutron?
James Chadwick
Radium was discovered by
Marie Skłodowska Curie
(a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences)
Who discovered X-rays
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen.
(Wilhelm Roentgen, a German professor of physics, was the first person to discover electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range commonly known as X-rays today. Although, many people had observed the effects of X-ray beams before, but Roentgen was the first one to study them systematically.)
Development of wireless telegraphy was done by
Guglielmo Marconi
Who discovered the positron?
Carl David Anderson discovered the positron on August 2, 1932, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936.
Who discovered anti-septic surgery
Joseph Lister
(Joseph Lister did not discover a new drug but he did make the like between lack of cleanliness in hospitals and deaths after operations. For this reason, he is known as the ‘Father of Antiseptic Surgery’)
Who invented the hydrogen bomb?
Edward Teller (after the Soviets successfully detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, President Harry S. Truman ordered the creation of a hydrogen bomb project. With the help of the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, Dr. Teller developed a model for the hydrogen bomb known as the Teller-Ulam design)
Father of Neutron Bomb?
Samuel Theodore Cohen was an American physicist who is generally credited as the father of the neutron bomb
Telegraphy was discovered by
Samuel Morse (Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.)
optical fibre was invented by
Narinder Singh Kapany
The world’s first radar system was invented by
A.H Taylor and Leo C. Young
who invented lift?
Elisha Otis (the "Vertical Screw Railway" was installed in a few buildings in New York and Philadelphia. The first elevator shaft was put in a building before Elisha Otis designed his safe, steam powered elevator. This was done in 1853 at the Cooper Union Foundation building in New York.)
Jet Engine was invented by
Frank Whittle
who was the first to observe ultraviolet rays
Johann Wilhelm Ritter, 1801
-UV radiation was discovered in 1801 when the German physicist Johann Wilhelm Ritter observed that invisible rays just beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum darkened silver chloride-soaked paper more quickly than violet light itself.
Stephen Hales?
He recongnized in 1727 that sunlight and air are impn for the growth of plants
who discovered the blood groups?
Karl Landsteiner (The ABO blood group system is widely credited to have been discovered by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who identified the O, A, and B blood types in 1900.)
The theory of inheritance of acquired characters was pronounced by
Gregor Mendel (Father of Genetics. Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent.)
Radioactivity was discovered by
Henri Becquerel
(Marie Curie became the first woman to be awarded the nobel prize and the first person to obtain two nobel prizes when she won the prize for the discovery of Polonium and Radium in 1911. Though it was Henri Becquerel that discovered radioactivity, it was Marie Curie who coined the term.)
John Walker invented
Safety Match
Mercury thermometer was invented by
Galileo
Gun Powder was invented by
Roger Bacon
(Roger Bacon. … Bacon’s major work, the Opus Majus, was sent to Pope Clement IV in Rome in 1267 upon the pope’s request. Although gunpowder was first invented and described in China, Bacon was the first in Europe to record its formula)
____ discovered the satellites of Jupiter
Galileo
Gene was first isolated by
Har Gobind Khorana
. In 1972, Khorana made a second breakthrough, constructing the world’s first synthetic gene.
Typewriter was invented by
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes,
Transistor was invented by
William Shockley
Telephone was invented by
An early voice communicating device was invented around 1854 by Antonio Meucci, who called it a telettrofono. … resolution by the US Congress was promptly followed by a Canada legislative motion by Canada’s 37th Parliament, declaring Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone
___ was the first to measure earth’s radius
Eratosthenes
(Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth without leaving Egypt. He knew that at local noon on the summer solstice in Syene (modern Aswan, Egypt), the Sun was directly overhead.)
____ scale was devised by celcius
Centigrade
Oxygen was discovered by
Lavoisier
(Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. He recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783) and opposed the phlogiston theory.)
____ scientist credited with discovery of noble gases.
Henry Cavendish
____ scientist was responsible for binomial nomenclature.
Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature
