Famous Fathers in their Scientific Fields Flashcards

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Anatomy

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Andreas Vesalius

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Atom bomb

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J. Robbert Oppenheimer

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3
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Aviation

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Sir George Clayley

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4
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Biology

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Aristotle

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5
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Botany

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Theophrastus

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6
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Computer

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Charles Babbage

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7
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Computer science

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Alan Turing

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8
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Economics

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Adam Smith

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9
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Electricity

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Benjamin Franklin

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10
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Email

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Ray Tomlinson

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11
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English poetry

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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12
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Evolution

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Charles Darwin

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13
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Genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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14
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Geometry

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Euclid

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15
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Internet

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Vint Cerf

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16
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Laptop

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Bill Moggridge

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17
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Microbiology

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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek

18
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Microscopy

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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek

19
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Mobile phone

A

Martin Cooper

20
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Modern astronomy

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Nicolaus Copernicus

21
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Modern medicine

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Hippocrates

22
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Modern Olympic

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Pierre De Coubertin

23
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Television

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Philo Farnsworth

24
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Surgery

25
Nuclear chemistry
Otto Hahn
26
Nuclear physics
Ernest Rutherford
27
Nuclear science
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
28
Numbers
Pythagoras
29
Periodic table
Dmitri Mendeleev
30
Philosophy
Rene Descartes
31
Plastic surgery
Sir Harold Gillies
32
Political science
Aristotle
33
Psychology
Sigmund Freud
34
Sociology
August Comte
35
Optics
Ibn al-Haytham
36
Zoology
Aristotle
37
Modern botany
Linnaeus
38
Bacteriology
Leeuwenhoek
39
Evolutionary ideas
Empedocles
40
Modern genetics
T.H. Morgan
41
Cytology
Robert Hooke
42
Plant physiology
Stephen Hales