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1
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He uses the word dinosaurs to describe the terrible lizards

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Richard Owen

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2
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He said that earth is covered with impregnable ice

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Louis Agassiz

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3
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Birds could have involved from the now extinct dinosaurs

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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4
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He was able to solve problems through periodic table of elements

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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5
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Benzone Molecule

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August Kekule

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6
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Spontaneous life could not be done

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Louis Pasteur

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7
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Completed the full list of atomic weights

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Jons Jakob Berzelius

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8
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Potential use of atomic weights

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John Dalton

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9
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Said that light fast traveled in air than water

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Hippolyte Fizeau & Leon Facault

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10
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Doppler Effect to Binary Starts

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Christian Doppler

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11
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Wavelife interference

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Thomas Young

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12
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X-Rays

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Wilhem Rontgen

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13
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Thermometer Spectrum

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William Herschel

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14
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Connection of mathematics and electromagnetism

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Clerk Maxwell

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15
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First electric motor

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Michael Faraday and Scottish James

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16
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Electricy and magnetism

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Danish Hans Christian Orsted

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17
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Creation of new proffesion other than philosophy

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William Whewell

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18
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Invented electric battery

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Alessandro Volta

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19
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Demography

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Thomas Maltus

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20
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Comex structure of plants and insects

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Christian Sprengel

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21
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One of the proponent of Theory of Evolution

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George Louis Leclerc

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22
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Earth was a little bit older than anyone had previously believed.

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James Hutton

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23
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Took advantage of Newton’s Idea

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Neliv Maskelyne

24
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Big scale of ocean current flowed at the bottom of the sea.

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Benjamin Franklin

25
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Discover the root pressure and invented a through fo collecting gasses

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Stephen Hales

26
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Pressure of fluid falls when it is moving

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Daniel Bernoulli

27
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Best achievement of the century belongs to:

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Isaac Newton

28
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Showed the different stages of an insect

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John Swammerdam

29
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Father of Microbiology

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Anthonie Van Leeuwenhoek

30
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Complext structure of small insects such as flees and bugs

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Robert Hooke

31
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Calculation on the approximate speed of light

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Danish Astronomer

32
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Theories of Light Travel

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Isaan Newton

33
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Air pump

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Robert Boyle

34
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Telescopes and four moons

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Galileo Galilei

35
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Geocentric Model

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Ptolemy

36
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Heliocentric Model

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Nicolaus Copernicus

37
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Blossoming of Sciences

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Golden Age of Islamic Period

38
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Invented gun powders such as fireworks, rockets, metals, and guns.

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Chinese

39
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First used by Indian

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Spinning Wheel

40
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Foresaw the occurence of rare solar eclipse

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Thales of Miletus

41
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Historical region in Western Asia

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Mesopotamia

42
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Center of Learning

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Athens

43
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Sun was very large

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Aristrachus of Samos

44
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Combination of planetary observation and calculation of Ptolemaic System

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King Alfonso X of Castle

45
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No proof that Earth is static

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Nicole Orosme

46
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Fixed Copernicus Model

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Tycho Brahe

47
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Four moons

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Galileo Galilei

48
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Remains of extinct animals that dies in Biblical Catastrophic

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Georges Cuvier

49
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Environmental changes and disuse in a person (Giraffe) Praised by Charles Darwin

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Jean Baptist Lamarck

50
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Used by Charles Darwin to collect fossil, animal, and specimen

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HMS Beagle Ship

51
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Journal name of Charles Darwin

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The Zoology of The Voyage of HMS Beagle

52
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Uniformitarianism

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James Hutton

53
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British Naturalist

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Alfred Wallace

54
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When does electric battery was discovered?

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1799

55
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Was able to produced an amazing doctoral thesis about calcium carbonate degeneration and the extraction
of carbon.

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Joseph Black

56
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Made an important contribution to the field by illustrating that water was made of two parts of hydrogen to one of oxygen.

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Henry Cavendish

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