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31 Cards in this Set
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Leucippus
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Made idea that all matter is comprised of atoms
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Democritus
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Student of Leucippus and is remembered for their idea that all matter is comprised of atoms
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John Dalton
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Founder of the modern atomic theory.
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Niels Bohr
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Developed a picture of the atom - The Bohr Model
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Nicholas of Cusa
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He was the first to break from Ptolemy's geocentric view. He believed in Nicolaus Copernicus's theory.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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He came up with the heliocentric view of the solar system
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Johannes Kepler
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Backed up the heliocentric system
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Galileo Galilei
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He did detailed experiments about motion, confirming the work of Bradwardine and showing the flaws in Aristotles thinking.
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Ptolemy
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Came up with the geocentric view of the solar system
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James Joule
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He came up with "The First Law of Thermodynamics"
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Max Planck
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He came up with an entirely new way of looking at energy and matter - quantum mechanics
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Known as the founder of modern physics & found that electricity and magnetism were different aspects of the same process-electromagnetism
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Albert Einstein
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Made the special theory of relativity & developed the general theory of relativity
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Isaac Newton
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Brilliant scientist who laid down 3 laws of motion, formed a universal law of gravity & developed calculus
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Robert Grosseteste
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Wanted to find out WHY something happened
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Roger Bacon
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Tried putting God into the Scientific Method
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Thomas Bradwardine
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Studied some of Aristotles works and used the Scientific Method to prove it wrong
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Robert Boyle
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The founder of modern chemistry
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Blaise Pascal
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Demonstrated atmospheric pressure
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
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Invented the microscope
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Aristotle
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Called "the father of life sciences"
He was the first to make a large-scale attempt at the classification of animals and plants. |
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Carrolus Linnaeus
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Tried to classify all living creatures that had been studied
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Archimedes
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First to show how you could predict whether or not an object would float in a liquid
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
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He came up with the Law of Mass Conservation. He also explained combustion.
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Louis Pasteur
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Destroyed the idea of spontaneous generation. He also developed pasteurization.
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Charles R. Darwin
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Destroyed the idea of immutability of the species & came up with evolution.
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Gregor Mendel
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He devoted much of his life to the study of reproduction. The entire field of modern genetics is based on his work.
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Michael Faraday
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Studied electricity - "The Electrical Giant"
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John Dalton
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Came up with the atomic theory.
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Sir Charles Lyell
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He broke with the scientific view that the earth was relatively young and postulated that the earth took millions of years to form.
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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Made Xrays
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