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People Of Science Flashcards

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Thomas Young

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English, Polymath, Physics Double slit experiment

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James Clerk Maxwell

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Scottish physicist unifies magnetism and electricity light is a wave luminiferous aether

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Heinrich Hertz

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German Physicist Proved electromagnetic waves exists. Discovered the photoelectric effect

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Michelson and Morley

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testing light travels luminfereous if the light should change with the sun
disproves that idea, basis for future development for negativity

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5
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max plank

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German physicist
blackbody radiations quantization of electromagnetic energy
Nobel prize 1918

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6
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Henri Becquerel

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French physicist engineer
radio activités expose photographic plate to potassium uranyl surface
determines beta particles

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Marie Curie

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Polish Physics+Chemist
nobel proze 1903
discovered plutonium and radium
portable x rays WW1

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Aristole

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student of plato
fundemanetals of bio physics astronomy geology
wrote physics
earth is center celestial sphered

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9
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ptolemy

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no perfect circle
limited my mathematical tools of the day

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10
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AVICENNA

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advancements in medicine first clinical trials

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leon focalt

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rotates on axis
speed of light

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12
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Edward Jenner

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1st successful vaccine
physician
cow pox into people for small pox

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Louis Pasteur

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biologist chemist
discovered chirality
rabies and anthrax vaccine
developed pasteurization
discovered spontaneous generations

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Friedrich Wholer

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synthesindrea fronoynate and ammonia
l

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Gregor Mendel

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monk
pea plants hereditary
ignored until 1900’s

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Charles Darwin

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Naturalist
natural selection
Galapagos islands
finches
new paradigm for biology

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Francis Bacon

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Father of scientific method

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Copernicus

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heliocentric
perserved circular orbits

19
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tycho brae

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geocentric model
discovered new stars
stellar parallel
tychonic system

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Johannes Kepler

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Elliptical Orbits of planets within tychonic systems

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Galileo Galilei

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observation of the phases of the Venus mountain on the moon jovial moon system

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James Watt

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steam driven engine incorporated rail roads and factories thermodynamics

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Thomas Newcomer

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fuel burning engine pumping water out of wells

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Isaac Newton

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Principa
Calculus
theory of light
Gravity Keplers of planetary motion

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Niels bohr

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physicist
solar system model of the atom
Rutherford nuclear Mosel and planks quantum theory
old quantum theory

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Erwin Schrodinger

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physicist
new quantum theory
current quantum theory
schodingers cat

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William Shockley

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Basis for modern electronics
Essentially founded Silicon Valley
bells lab

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Arthur Eddington

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astonemr physicist mathematician
In 1919, captures images of the solar eclipse in Principe (west coast of Africa) and Sobral (Brazil)

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geroges Lemaitre

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physicist and priest
big bang theory

30
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Edwin Hubble

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red shift of disnat objects
frequency due to velocity
universe is expanding

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Penzias and wilson

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physicist radio asrotnmer
bell labs
radio waves off balloons
microwave

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Frederick GRIFFITH

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biologist
Studied Pneumococci bacteria
Rough and smooth forms
Smooth was pathogenic, rough not
Griffith’s Experiment
Discovered a “transforming principle” in Pneumococci
Changed non-virulent R into virulent

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Linus Pauling

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Chemist
chemical bonds
DNA triple helix structure
metal ions inside stabilize structure

34
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Watson and crick

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Biologist
Created a model of DNA based on double helix structure
Confirmed by Wilkins & Franklin X-ray structures
Nobel Prize 1962 with Wilkins
Controversy today!

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Rosalind Franklin

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Chemist & X-ray crystallographer
Worked under Randall and in collaboration with Maurice Wilkins
Given DNA crystals for study
Discovered two forms of DNA
“wet” and “crystalline”
She worked primarily with “crystalline”, Wilkins with “wet”
Grad student Raymond Gosling takes Photo 51 in 1952

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Meselson and Stahl

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American, b.1930 (Meselson)
American, b. 1929 (Stahl)
Demonstrated “semiconservative replication” of DNA
Each strand is used as a template for a new strand of DNA
New strand has 1 old and 1 new strand
Conservative replication would lead to a single strand used as a template
Would have 1 helix of all old, 1 helix of all new

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Marshall Nirenberg

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American Biologist, 1927-2010
NIH researcher
With others, deciphered the genetic code
Codon –> amino acid
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968

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