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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Aviation

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Sir George Clayley

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Biology

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Aristotle

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Botany

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Theophrastus

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Computer

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Charles Babbage

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Computer science

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Alan Turing

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Economics

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Adam Smith

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Electricity

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Benjamin Franklin

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Email

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Ray Tomlinson

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English poetry

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Evolution

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Charles Darwin

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Genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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Geometry

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Euclid

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Internet

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Vint Cerf

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Laptop

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Bill Moggridge

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Microbiology

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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek

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Microscopy

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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek

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Mobile phone

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Martin Cooper

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Modern astronomy

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Modern medicine

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Hippocrates

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Modern Olympic

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Pierre De Coubertin

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Television

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Philo Farnsworth

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Surgery

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Sushruta

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Nuclear chemistry

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Otto Hahn

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Nuclear physics

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Ernest Rutherford

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Nuclear science

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Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

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Numbers

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Pythagoras

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Periodic table

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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Philosophy

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Rene Descartes

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Plastic surgery

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Sir Harold Gillies

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Political science

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Aristotle

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Psychology

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Sigmund Freud

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Sociology

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August Comte

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Optics

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Ibn al-Haytham

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Zoology

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Aristotle

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Modern botany

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Linnaeus

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Bacteriology

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Leeuwenhoek

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Evolutionary ideas

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Empedocles

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Modern genetics

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T.H. Morgan

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Cytology

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Robert Hooke

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Plant physiology

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Stephen Hales