Scientists Flashcards
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Observes moons of Jupiter, evidence promotes heliocentric model
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Galileo
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Measured the earths circumference
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Eratosthenes
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Observes cells, book “Micrographia”
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Hooke
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Discovers microorganisms, father of micro biology
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Leeuwenhoek
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Made first quantitative estimate of speed of light
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Romer
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Discovers dephlogisticated air
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Priestley
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Disproved phlogiston theory
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Lavoisier
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Law of conservation of mass
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Lavoisier
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First vaccine, smallpox
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Jenner
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Uses a torsion bar to measure density of earth
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Cavendish
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Discovered hydrogen
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Cavendish
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Demonstrated wave-particle duality of light
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Young
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Isolates K, Ca, Na, and others
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Davy
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Discovers electromagnetisism
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Orsted
14
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Synthesizes urea
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Wöhler
