Competency 26: History & Nature of Science Flashcards
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented telephone
Rachel Carson
founder of environmental science
George Washington Carver
Botanist “farmers best friend”
Francis Crick & Hames Watson
Discovered structure of DNA molecule
Marie Curie
Physicist who discovered radioactivity
Leonardo da Vinci
Inventor/Artist from Renaissance
Thomas Edison
Invented lightbulb, phonograph, and motion picture
Albert Einstein
Developed Theory of Relativity and equation E=MC2
Henry Ford
Invented Model T Ford, 1st mass produced car
Ben Franklin
Inventor & founding father of US
Galileo
1st used telescope to view planets & stars
Jane Goodall
Studied chimpanzees in the wild.
Johannes Gutenberg
Invented printing press
Stephen Hawking
Discovered Hawking radiation and wrote a brief history in time.
Antoine Lavoisier
Father of modern chemistry
Isaac Newton
Discovered theory of gravity & 3 laws of motion
Louis Pasteur
Discovered pasteurization, vaccines, and founded science of germ theory.
Wright Brothers
invented first airplane
Ignaz Semmelweiss
1800s. One of the 1st investigators to propose aseptic techniques after running experiments to figure out why women were dying during childbirth.
Louis Pasteur
1800s. Germ theory
Rosalind Franklin
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.
George Washington Carver
1900s. Born into slavery. Famous Botanist. advocated crop rotation practices.
Ellen Ochoa
First Hispanic woman to become an astronaut
