SC15V History of Science: Scientists, Inventions/Inventors, Technology
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English mathematician and logician, he is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. He provided an influential formalization of the concept of the algorithm and computation with his namesake machine
Alan Turing
Battery
Alessandro Volta
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Dynamite
Alfred Nobel
Edison, Thomas
American - Wizard of Menlo Park - invented light bulb, phonograph, movie camera
Watson, James D.
American - co-discovered the structure of DNA
Salk, Jonas
American - developed first polio vaccine
Hubble, Edwin
American - discovered Red Shift; postulated Big Bang Theory
Whitney, Eli
American - invented cotton gin and use of interchangeable parts
Fulton, Robert
American - invented steamboat (Clermont)
Goddard, Robert
American - known as the "Father of Modern Rocketry" You are the Rockets, you should know this.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
American - led the research that developed first atomic bomb; known as 'Father of the Atomic Bomb'
Mendel, Gregor
Austrian - laws of genetics
Bifocal Glasses
Benjamin Franklin
Lightning Rod
Benjamin Franklin
Kelvin, Lord
British - absolute zero; founder of thermodynamics
Joule, James
British - determined that heat is a form of energy
Priestly, Joseph
British - discovered oxygen; made carbonated water and is viewed as father of soda industry; discovered that rubber erases pencil marks
Fleming, Alexander
British - discovered penicillin
Jenner, Edward
British - discovered smallpox vaccine
Davy, Sir Humphrey
British - discovered the elements potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, barium, and magnesium; he invented the miner's safety lamp and was the mentor of Michael Faraday; known for studies of gases in which he inhaled them to study their effects
Boyle, Robert
British - law of gases (Boyle's Law)
Newton, Isaac
British - laws of motion; co-invented calculus; made discoveries in the country when he fled the city due to the plague
Crick, Francis
British - one of discoverers of the structure of DNA
Darwin, Charles
British - theory of natural selection, evolution, survival of the fittest
Faraday, Michael
British physicist who invented the dynamo; discovered benzene; contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Vulcanized Rubber
Charles Goodyear
LASER
Charles H. Townes
Xerography or Photocopying
Chester Carlson
Frozen Foods
Clarence Birdsye
Blimp
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Bohr, Niels
Danish - Nobel Prize for the Bohr atom; one of the founders of Quantum Mechanics
English naturalist and biologist, he demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection.
Darwin
Submarine
David Bushnell
Cavendish, Henry
Discovered hydrogen; was so shy that he gave his maids notes so he would not have to speak to them
Chadwick, James
Discovered the neutron
German physicist, is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
Einstein
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
Eli Whitney
Electron Microscope
Ernst Ruska
Leakey, Louis
Famous for his discoveries of ancient man in the Rift Valley of Africa
Lister, Joseph
Father of antiseptic surgery
Teller, Edward
Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
Lemarck, Jean
French - advocated that acquired traits could be passed on to next generation; coined the term biology
Curie, Marie
French - discovered radium and polonium; first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes - one in Physics and the other in Chemistry
Lavoisier, Antoine
French - discovered the chemistry of oxygen
Pasteur, Louis
French - pasteurization; discovered that diseases are caused by microorganisms
Mercury Thermometer
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Italian physicist and astronomer.e telescope and consequent astronomical observations. He has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science."
Galileo
Thermometer
Galileo
Planck, Max
German - Planck's constant; one of the founders of quantum mechanics
Wegener, Alfred
German - postulated continental drift
Kepler, Johannes
German - put forth laws of the motions of planets
Heisenberg, Werner
German - uncertainty principle; one of founders of quantum mechanics
Fahrenheit, Gabriel
German physicist who developed the first mercury thermometer
Einstein, Albert
German-American - Theories of relativity; won Nobel Prize in 1921 for the photo-electric effect
Internal Combustion Gasoline Engine
Gottlieb Daimler
Archimedes
Greek - Bouyancy - volume can be determined by how much water is displaced
Euclid
Greek - founder of geometry
Radar
Heinrich Hertz
Assembly Lines
Henry Ford
Torricelli, Evangelista
Invented the barometer
His Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, is considered to be the most influential book in the history of science. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics
Isaac Newton
Marconi, Guglielmo
Italian - invented radio. Sent radio waves from Italy to America (Across the Atlantic)
Galileo
Italian - invented telescope; gravity
SCUBA Gear
Jacques Cousteau
Seed Drill
Jethro Tull
Printing Press
Johan Guttenberg
Steel Plow
John Deere
Television
John L. Baird
Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden
Automobile
Karl Benz
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Kentuckian who won Nobel Prize for work studying chromosomes in fruit flies
mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. He has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man"
Leonardo da Vinci
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss
Polish physicist and chemist, she was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.
Marie Curie
Dynamo
Michael Faraday
Rutherford, Ernst
New Zealand-born British scientist - discovered the atomic nucleus and the proton; performed gold-foil experiment in which alpha particles were shot at gold-foil
Amundsen, Roald
Norwegian - a Norwegian polar explorer who was the first person to fly over the North Pole in a dirigible (May 11-13, 1926) and was the first person to reach the South Pole. He was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles.
Airplane
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Copernicus, Nicholas
Polish - said sun is center of solar system
Machine Gun
Richard Gatling
Steamboat
Robert Fulton
Mendeleev, Dimitri
Russian - periodic table
Telegraph
Samuel F.B. Morse
Reed, Walter
Scientists whose investigations proved that mosquitoes carried Yellow Fever. Major veterans' hospital is named after him.
Bell, Alexander Graham
Scottish-American - invented telephone
Hawking, Stephen
Suffers from ALS; work on black holes and unified theory; wrote 'Brief History of Time'
Linnaeus, Carolus
Swedish - classification of living things
Electric Light
Thomas Edison
Movie Camera
Thomas Edison
Phonograph (record player that used cylinder shaped records)
Thomas Edison
The first great invention developed by him was the tin foil phonograph. A prolific producer, also know for his work with lightbulbs, electricity, film and audio devices, and much more.
Thomas Edison
Roentgen, Wilhelm
Won Nobel Prize for discovery of x-rays
Schrodinger, Edwin
Won Nobel Prize for his famous wave equation, thus laying the foundation of the wave-mechanic approach to quantum mechanics
Goodall, Jane
Worked with chimpanzees
Fosse, Diane
Worked with mountain gorillas
Microscope
Zacharias Janssen