Science Report: List of Scientist
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HEALTH & MEDICINE
Frederick Banting:
developer of insulin
Alexander Fleming:
discovered penicillin
Jonas Salk:
developer of the first polio vaccine
Percy Julian:
discoverer of key medicines
Christiaan Barnard:
pioneering heart-transplant surgeon
Lois Pasteur:
vaccine & pasteurization
Marie Curie:
physicist & inventor of x-rays
Earth
Alfred Wegener:
developer of the continental drift
Harry Hess:
investigator of the deep ocean floor
Arthur Holmes:
investigator of the history of the earth
Winifred Goldring:
geologist and paleontologist
Jacques Cousteau:
explored ocean floor and invented scuba diving equipment.
Anders Celsius:
temperature
George Simon
Ohm: heat conduction
Antoine-Laurent
Lavoisier: combustion and conservation
Rachel Carson:
environmentalist
Albert Einstein:
theory of relativity
Fanny Workman:
geographer
Isaac Newton:
law of relativity
Luis Alvarez:
atomic physicist & dinosaur extinction theorist
Space
Edwin Hubble:
astronomer who expanded the bounds of the universe
Henrietta Leavitt:
Key in measuring stellar distances
Galileo:
astronomical discoveries
Nicolas Copernicus:
sun is the center of the universe
Mary Somerville:
astronomy
Maria Mitchell:
discovered comet
Human Evolution
Charles Davenport:
eugenicist
Rosalind Franklin:
key in solving DNA
The Leakey Family:
investigators of our human ancestors
Charles Darwin:
theories of evolution
Animal Behavior
Jane Goodall:
studied chimpanzee
Ivan Pavlov:
investigated animal behavior
Inventions
Alexander Bell:
telephone
Jay Forrester:
computer pioneer
Henry Ford:
automobile
Thomas Edison:
lightbulb
Wallace Carothers:
nylon
Orvil & Wilbur
Wright: airplane
Samuel F.B. Morse:
Morse code
Michale Faraday:
electrical currents
Louis Jacques
Mande Daguerre: photograph
Bill Gates:
computer software
Robert Goddard: rocket
