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)