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Major Scientists, Mathematicians, And Inventors Flashcards

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Avogadro, Amedeo

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1776-1856
Italian scientist
Avogardos law
6.02x10^23

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Ampere, Andre - Marie

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1775-1836
French teacher Nd physicist whose name was given to measure electrical current.
Amp

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Becquerel, Antoine Henri

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1852-1908

French physicist who was one of the discoverers of radioactivity

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Bell, Alexander graham

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1847-1922

American inventor of the telephone

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Bernoulli, Daniel

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1700-1782

Dutch born scientist who derived the central formula for fluid dynamics.

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Bohr, Niels henrik David

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1885-1962

Danish scientist and major contributor to quantum theory.

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Carrier, Willis

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1876-1950

American inventor of modern air conditioning

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Carson, Rachel

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1907-1964

American environmentalist who wrote silent spring. Which started the global environmental movement.

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Celsius, anders

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1701-1744

Swedish astronomer who created the Celsius temperature scale

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Copernicus, Nicklaus

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1473-1543

Polish astronomer founded modern astronomy and said the sun was the center of the solar system.

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Cray, Seymour

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1925-1996

American inventor of the cray supercomputer.

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Curie, Marie and Pierre.

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Married French scientists who conducted joint research on radiation. Discovered radium and polonium

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Darwin , Charles.

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British naturalist who developed the theory of evolution

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Dawkins, Richard.

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British popularizer who contributed to the theory of evolution

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Diesel, Rudolf

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German inventor if the internal combustion engine.

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Edison, Thomas.

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American inventor of the lightbulb and phonograph.

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Einstein, Albert

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German Jewish physicist who devised the theory of relativity and the electromagnetic theory of light.

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Euclid

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Greek mathematician known as the father of geometry.

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Fahrenheit, Daniel

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German physicist created the alcohol thermometer, mercury thermometer and the Fahrenheit temperature scale.

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Faraday, Michael

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British experimental physicist founder of the science of electromagnetism. Invented the Bunsen burner.

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Farnsworth, philo

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American inventor who conceived the basic operating principles of the television.

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Fermi, enrico

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Italian American scientist who performed research into radioactivity, chain reactions, and the H-bomb.

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Franklin, Benjamin.

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American scientist, statesmen ,inventor of the bifocals and the lightning rod.

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Galen

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Ancient Greek physician who carefully dissected animals and gathered medical knowledge of his time. First to give a diagnosis by taking a persons pulse.

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Galileo

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Italian astronomer who used techniques of the scientific method to contribute significantly to physics and astronomy.

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Gauss, Carl Friedrich

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German mathematician and astronomer who made contributions to number theory.

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Gould, Gordon

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Inventor of the laser

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Gould, Stephen j.

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American evolutionary biologist

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Halley, Edmund

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British mathematician and astronomer for which Haley’s comet was named.

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Heisenberg, Werner

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German physicist who was a founder of quantum mechanics and who formulated the uncertainty principle.

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Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf

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German Jewish physicist who conducted pioneering studies of electromagnetic waves. The hertz is named for him.

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Hippocrates

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Ancient Greek physician, considered the father of medicine whose ethics formed the basis for the Hippocratic oath

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Kepler, Johannes

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German astronomer and developer of planetary motion.

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Lamarck, jean-baptiste

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French naturalist whose theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics was later refuted by the work of Darwin.

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Leakey, Louis

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British archaeologist who, in east Africa discovered the fossilized remains of a number of “premen”

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Lister, Joseph

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British surgeon who pioneered antiseptic methods.

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Marconi, guglielmo marchese

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Italian inventor of the radio

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Maxwell, James Clerk

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Scottish physicist who created a celebrated set of equations for the basic laws of electricity and magnetism.

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McClintock, Barbara.

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American cytogeneticist who discovered moving genetic material known as transposons, or jumping genes.

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Mendel, Gregor johann

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Austrian monk and botanist who proved the existence of dominant and recessive characteristics in living things. Forming the basis of modern genetics

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Mendeleev, dmitri

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Russian chemist one of two scientists who invented the modern periodic table of elements.

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Morse, Samuel

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American inventor who invented the electric telegraph and morse code.

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Newton, sir Isaac

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Law of universal gravitation, calculus, reflecting telescope

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Nobel, Alfred

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Swedish industrialist, engineer, And inventor of dynamite.. Created the noble peace prize

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Pascal, Blaise

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French mathematician who is credited with the invention of the barometer.

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Plank, max

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German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory and came up with planks constant.

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Ptolemy,

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Ancient Greek astronomer who developed the geocentric theory of the solar system

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Rontegen, Wilhelm Conrad

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German scientist who developed x-rays

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Sabin, Albert

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Polish America scientist who developed the oral vaccine against polio.

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Salk, Jonas

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American scientist who developed the first vaccine against polio.

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Tesla, Nikola

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Serbian-American inventor and researcher who discovered the rotating magnetic field the basis of most alternating current machinery.

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Volta, Alessandro, count

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Italian physicist who gave name to volt, describing the unit of electric pressure, developed the theory of current electricity, invented the electric battery.

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Watson, James

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American biophysicist who Long with Francis crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule (double helix)

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Wegener, Alfred

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German originator of the theory of continental drift, which evolved into the theory of tectonic plates.

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