Scientists Flashcards
Father of Atom Bomb
Robert Oppenheimer (Manhattan Project)
Father of American Hydrogen Bomb
Edward Teller
Father of Nuclear Sub
Hyman Rickover (American)
English father of modern chemistry
Robert Boyle
French Father of Modern Chemistry
Antoine Lavoisier
Father of Soviet Hydrogen Bomb
Andrei Sakharov
Father of Rocketry
Robert Goddard (American)
Saturn 5 Rocket Developer
Werner Von Braun (German-American)
Astronomer with Metal Nose
Tycho Brahe (Danish)
Second English Astromomer Royal
Sir Edmund Halley
He proposed heliocentric solar system
Copernicus (Polish)
He proved Yellow Fever was caused by mosquitos
Walter Reed (American)
Monk who discovered the principles of genetics
Gregor Mendel (German Speaking Moravian)
He developed theory of conditioned reflex
Ivan Pavlov (Russian)
He discovered the laws of electrical resistance
George Ohm (German)
He discovered electromagnetic waves
Heinrich Hertz (German)
He discovered the structure of the atom
Neil Bohr (Danish)
He established the periodic table of the elements
Dimitri Mendeleyev (Russian)
He discovered the properties of hydrogen
Henry Cavendish (English)
Scientist who discovered sodium and potassium
Sir Humphry Davy (English)
Physicist who discovered radioactive elements
Enrico Fermi (Italian)
Scientist of optics and geometry
Rene Descartes (French)
He established quantum theory of radiation
Max Planck (German)
He First Learned of Fermentation
Louis Pasteur (French)
He Proposed Theory of Expanding Universe
Edwin Hubble (American)
