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Texas Generalist EC-6 Science > Competency 26: History & Nature of Science > Flashcards

Competency 26: History & Nature of Science Flashcards

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Invented telephone

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Rachel Carson

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founder of environmental science

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George Washington Carver

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Botanist “farmers best friend”

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Francis Crick & Hames Watson

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Discovered structure of DNA molecule

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Marie Curie

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Physicist who discovered radioactivity

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Inventor/Artist from Renaissance

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Thomas Edison

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Invented lightbulb, phonograph, and motion picture

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Albert Einstein

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Developed Theory of Relativity and equation E=MC2

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Henry Ford

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Invented Model T Ford, 1st mass produced car

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Ben Franklin

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Inventor & founding father of US

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Galileo

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1st used telescope to view planets & stars

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Jane Goodall

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Studied chimpanzees in the wild.

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Johannes Gutenberg

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Invented printing press

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Stephen Hawking

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Discovered Hawking radiation and wrote a brief history in time.

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Father of modern chemistry

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Isaac Newton

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Discovered theory of gravity & 3 laws of motion

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Louis Pasteur

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Discovered pasteurization, vaccines, and founded science of germ theory.

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Wright Brothers

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invented first airplane

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Ignaz Semmelweiss

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1800s. One of the 1st investigators to propose aseptic techniques after running experiments to figure out why women were dying during childbirth.

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Louis Pasteur

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1800s. Germ theory

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Rosalind Franklin

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1950s. Search for structure of the DNA double helix. Without her X-ray crystallographic studies, Watson and Crick might not have arrived at their groundbreaking discovery.

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George Washington Carver

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1900s. Born into slavery. Famous Botanist. advocated crop rotation practices.

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Ellen Ochoa

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First Hispanic woman to become an astronaut

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