Famous scientists
What were Isaac Newton's contributions?
-theory on gravity -3 laws of motion
Where did Galileo work?
1589- University of Pisa as a professor of mathematics where he was also required to teach Ptolemaic astronomy 1592- university of Padua teaching geometry, mechanics and astronomy
Where did Galileo study?
Camaldolese monastery University of Pisa-medicine and philosophy of Aristole
Where did Isaac Newton attend college?
Cambridge
When was Isaac Newton born and when did he die?
December 25, 1642 - March 31, 1727
When was Johannes Kepler born and when did he die?
December 27, 1571 - Nov 15, 1630 (born prematurely)
Which scientist served in WW1?
Edwin Hubble
Who was recruited by the Mount Wilson Observatory to help complete the construction of the Hooker Telescope?
Edwin Hubble
Where was Isaac Newton from?
England
When was Galileo born and when did he die?
Feb 15, 1564 - Jan 8, 1642
When was Nicolaus Copernicus born and when did he die?
Feb 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543
What were Nicolaus Copernicus' contributions to science?
First to conclude that the planets and the sun did not revolve around the earth First to correctly position Venus and Mercury Before his findings, the sun was thought to be another planet but he changed this and forced the first consideration of gravity Helped form the foundations of the Gregorian calendar
Who were Stephen Hawking's parents?
Frank and Isobel Hawking
Who developed the telescope?
Galileo Galilei
What was Edwin Hubble like?
He was good at high jump Intelligent
What theory did Nicolaus Copernicus create?
Heliocentric theory: earth and planets revolve around the sun which rests at the centre of the solar system
Which scientist taught in Indiana before returning to the University of Oxford to study astronomy?
Hubble
Which scientist was born in Marshfield Missouri?
Hubble
What was Isaac Newton's father's name?
Isaac Newton
Who had to leave college from 1665-1667 due to the Great Plague?
Isaac Newton
Who was appointed professor of mathematics at Trinity College in 1662?
Isaac Newton
Who was elected into Parliament in 1691?
Isaac Newton
Who was elected to the Royal Society in January 1672?
Isaac Newton
When was Stephen Hawking born and when did he die?
Jan 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018
What scientist had to leave Germany because of the 30 Year's war?
Johannes Kepler
Which scientist discovered that the planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus How vision and light refraction works
Johannes Kepler
Which scientist was from Germany?
Johannes Kepler
Who were Edwin Hubble's parents?
John Hubble Virginia Hubble
Who were Johannes Keller's parents?
Katherine Kepler and Heinrich Kepler
What was Edwin Hubble's original career plan?
Lawyer
Where did Johannes Kepler work?
Math teacher in Graz Astronomer in Prague
What did Johannes Kepler do for a living?
Mathematician Assisted a Danish astronomer Wrote astrology articles
Who published their manuscript after their death?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who traveled to Italy when they were 18 to go to college and study the laws and regulations of the Catholic Church but ended up spending most of their time studying math and astronomy?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who was paralyzed on their right side before his death?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who were Nicolaus Copernicus' parents?
Nicolaus Copernicus sr Barbara Watzenrode
When was Edwin Hubble born and when did he die?
Nov 20, 1889 - Sept 28, 1953
When was Stephen Hawking born?
Oxford England
Where did Stephen Hawking study?
Oxford University College then Trinity Hall at Cambridge Hall
Where was Galileo from?
Pisa, Italy
Where was Nicolaus Copernicus born?
Poland
What did Nicolaus Copernicus do for a living?
Priest and a mathematician
What were Hubble's important discoveries?
Proved that galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way by taking photos through the Hooker telescope Prime discoverer of the Andromeda Galaxy 1926-Invented the Hubble Sequence which is a classification scheme for galaxies 1929- Hubble and Milton Humason published research that claimed that a galaxy's redshift is twice the size as another's when it is twice as far from another galaxy
Which scientist had ALS?
Stephen Hawking
Who became a member of the institute of astrology in Cambridge ?
Stephen Hawking
Who wrote "A brief history of time"?
Stephen Hawking
Where did Stephen Hawking work?
Teacher and researcher at Cambridge
What major event affected Galileo's life?
The Roman Inquisition
What did Stephen Hawking do for a living?
Theoretical Physicist
What university did Nicolaus Copernicus go to?
University of Bologna
Where did Edwin Hubble go to university?
University of Chicago University of Oxford
Where did Johannes Kepler study?
University of Tubingen
What were Galileo's discoveries?
Venus has phases like the moon which proved that it rotated around the sun Jupiter has its own revolving moons Developed the universal law of acceleration Discovered the Milky Way to be densely packed stars rather than a nebula
Who were Galileo's parents?
Vincenzo Galilei- musician
What were Stephen Hawking's contributions to astronomy?
Work on black holes and general relativity 1970- proved the singularity theorem - provided evidence for the existence of singularities in space and time Showed that the universe started with a Big Bang and would end with black holes 1974- showed that black holes are not completely dark, they emit a certain type of radiation (Hawking radiation)
