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12 Cards in this Set
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James Clerk Maxwell |
Founder of Modern Science |
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Thales |
One of the First Scientist |
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Galileo |
Created the Heliocentric System, but was forced to recant his belief in it. |
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Ptomely |
Proposed the Geocentric System |
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Einstein |
Had two theories of relativity and was big in quantum mechanics |
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Lavoisier |
Discovered the Law of Conservation. |
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Darwin |
Destroyed the idea of the immutability of species |
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Democritus |
Ancient Greek Scientist who believed in atoms |
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Grosseteste |
Considered the first modern scientist |
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Copernicus |
Proposed the heliocentric system |
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Aristotle |
Championed the idea of spontaneous generation and is responsible for it being believed for so long |
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Newton |
One of the greatest scientists of all time, he laid down the laws of motion, developed the lawof universal gravity, and invented calculus |
