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Scientists/Discoveries Flashcards

1
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Jonas Salk

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Invented a vaccine for polio

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Edward Jenner

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Invented the first vaccine (smallpox)

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J.J. Thomson

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Discovered the electron (first subatomic particle discovered)
*plum pudding model

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Francis Aston

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Invented the mass spectrometer

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5
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Ernest Rutherford

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Discovered the nucleus and the proton

Gold foil experiment

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6
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James Chadwick

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Discovered the neutron

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7
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Niels Bohr

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Atomic model of electrons in orbital shells

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Democritus

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First theorizes the atom

Actually his mentor, Leucippus, did

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Mendeleev

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Created the periodic table

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10
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Carolus Linnaeus

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Father of taxonomy

Invented binomial nomenclature

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Charles Darwin

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If u dont know this u are sad

Also he wrote “On the Origin of Species”

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12
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Lamark

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Theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Ex: (giraffes stretch their necks over their life and pass it down to the immediately following generation)

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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Discovered basically the same stuff as Darwin just like a few years later. Urged Darwin to publish his findings

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John Dalton

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Next guy up in the atomic theory after Democritus

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Robert Boyle

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Boyle’s law

Temperature, pressure, and volume of gases formula thing

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16
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de Broglie

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Wave particle duality

17
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Pasteur

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Pasteurization
Vaccination
Germ theory

18
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Marie Curie

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Radioactivity

19
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Robert Hooke

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Discovered the cell

20
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Leeuwhenhoek

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Animolecules

Perfection of microscope

21
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Mosely

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X-ray spectroscopy

22
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Roentgen

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Discovered x-rays

23
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Stoney

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Electricity is electrons

24
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Watson & Crick

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DNA is a double helix

25
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Wilkens & Franklin

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Also helped with dna

26
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Volta

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Discovered the battery

27
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Maxwell

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Father of physics

Electromagnetism

28
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Newton

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Inertia
Laws of motion
Calculus

29
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Einstein

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Theories of relativity

Photoelectric effect

30
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Planck

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Black body radiation

31
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Faraday

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Electryolysis

32
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Alexander Fleming

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Discovered penicillin

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