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George Washington Carver
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Teached southern farmers, discovered many uses for the peanut, soybean, sweet peas and sweet potatoes
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Gregor Mendel
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Laws of Heredity, separate during cell division, and equally between sperm and egg cell .Worked wit pea plants to determine dominant and recessive traits
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Matthias Schleiden
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Discovered that all plants are made of cells.
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Theodor Schwann
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Discovered that all animals are made of cells.
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Rudolf Virchow
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Discovered that all cells come from other cells. Founder of Pathology.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Discovered that living things pass through characteristics from generation to generation through genes.
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Alfred Nobel
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Invented Dynamite which was a safer explosive than gun powder. He made millions of dollars and used the money to set up his Nobel Prizes in economics, medicine, literature, peace, and various sciences.
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Antoine Lavoisier
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Founder of Modern Chemistry. Naming system for chemical compounds. Conservation of matter in chemical reactions. Proved diamonds are made of the element Carbon.
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Dmitry Mendeleev
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Developed the first Periodic Table of Elements.
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Sir Joseph John Thomson
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Discovered the electron, a negative subatomic particle .
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