Discoverers Flashcards

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Oral Polio Vaccine

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Albert Sabin

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Polio Vaccine

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Jonas Salk

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3
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Photo-Electric Effect

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Albert Einstein

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Hydrostatics

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Archimedes

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5
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Fermentation

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Louis Pasteur

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DNA

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Francis Crick and James Watson

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7
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URanus

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Sir William Herschel

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Pluto

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Clyde Tombaugh

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Moons of Jupiter

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Galileo

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Expanding Universe

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Edwin Hubble

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Theory of Relativity

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Albert Einstein

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X-Ray Imaging

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Wilhelm Roentgen

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13
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Radium

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Marie and Pierre Curie

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14
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Penicillin

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Alexander Fleming

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15
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Cells

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Robert Hooke

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16
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Bacteria

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Oxygen

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Joseph Priestly

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Speech Center of the Brain

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Paul Broca

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Cause of TB and Cholera

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Robert Koch

20
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Antibodies

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Louis Pasteur

21
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Cure for Syphilis

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Paul Ehrlich

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Smallpox Vaccine

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Edward Jenner

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Cause of Yellow Fever

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Walter Reed

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Laws of Genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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Insulin

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Banting and Best

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Electromagnetic or Radio Waves

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Heinrich Hertz

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Electrical Resistance Laws

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George Ohm

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Rabies Vaccine

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Louis Pasteur

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Structure of the Atom

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Neils Bohr

30
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The Wreck of the Titanic

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Robert Ballard