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23 Cards in this Set
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Antione Becquerel
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(French) discovered radioactivity
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Nicolaus Coprnicus
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(Polish) founded modern astronomy, declared that the sun is center of solar system
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Marie Curie and Pierre
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(French) discovered radium, polonium
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Charles Darwin
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(English) natural selection, theory of evolution
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Albert Einstein
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(German) theory of relativity
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Enrico Fermi
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(Italian-American) radioactivity, chain reactions, H-bomb
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Sir Alexander Fermi
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(British) discovered penicillin
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Galen
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(ancient Greek) physician, studied personality
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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(German) mathematician and astronomer, invented electric telegraph
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Sir John Frederick William Herschel
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(British) astronomer
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Hippocrates
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(Ancient Greek) physician, father of medicine (oath)
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Edward Jenner
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(British) physician, cowpox vaccine
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Chevalier de Lamarck
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(French) naturalist, theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics
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Carolus Linnaeus
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(Switish) devised system of classifying living organisms
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Joseph Lister
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(British) surgeon, promoted antiseptic methods
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
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(Soviet) geneticist, follower of Lamarck, led to demise of Soviet biology
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Gregor Mendel
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(Austrian) botanist, transmission of characteristics in plants (genetics)
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Louis Pasteur
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(French) chemist, germ theory, use of heat to destroy bacteria
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Ptolemy
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(Egyptian) astronomer, geocentric theory of solar system
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Ernest Rutherford
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(British) physicist, radioactivity
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Albert Sabin
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(American) developed oral vaccine against polio
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Jonas Salk
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(American) developed first vaccine against polio
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James Watson (American) and Francis Crick (British)
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biophysicists, discovered structure of DNA molecule (double helix)
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