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34 Cards in this Set
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Gregor Mendel |
Pioneered genetics |
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Johannes Kepler |
Pioneered optics |
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Edmund Halley |
Discovered Halley's comet |
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Louis Leakey |
Discovered some of the first fossils |
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Nicolas Copernicus |
Polish, Founded modern astronomy |
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Rachel Carson |
American environmentalist wrote silent spring |
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Willis Carrier |
Invented air conditioning |
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Daniel Bernoulli |
Dutch, fluid dynamics |
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Alexander Bell |
American, invented telephone |
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Euclid |
Greek, father of geometry |
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Richard Dawkins |
Contribute to theory of evolution, wrote the selfish gene |
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Michael Faraday |
Electromagnetism and bunsen burner |
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Philo Farnsworth |
Television |
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Enrico Fermi |
Italian-American research into the h bomb |
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Galen |
Greek, medicine, taking pulse |
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Galileo |
Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist |
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Friedrich Gauss |
German contributed to numbers theory |
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Gordon Gould |
American inventor of the laser |
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Jay Gould |
American evolutionary biologist wrote Ever Since Darwin |
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Werner Heisenberg |
German physicist founder of quantum mechanics, formulated the uncertainty principle |
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Hippocrates |
Greek physician father of medicine, hippocratic oath |
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
French naturalist theory of inheritance refuted by darwin |
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Joseph Lister |
British surgeon who pioneered antiseptic methods |
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Marconi |
Italian inventor of the radio |
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Clerk maxwell |
Scottish physicist created equations for basic laws of electricity and magnetism |
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Barbara McClintock |
American cytogeneticist discovered jumping genes |
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Gregor Mendel |
Austrian monk proved the existence of dominant and recessive genes, mendelian law |
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Dmitri Mendeleev |
Russian chemist, one of two to invent modern periodic table |
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Blaise Pascal |
French mathematician credited with invention of barometer, formulas that heralded differential calculus, co-created probability theory with Fermat |
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Max Planck |
German theoretical physicist originated quantum theory and came up with Planck's constant h=6.626x10^-34 |
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Ptolemy |
Greek astronomer developed geocentric theory of solar system that was later rejected by Copernicus |
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Conrad Röntgen |
German discovered x rays |
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Albert Sabin |
Polish-American developed oral vaccine for polio |
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Jonas Salk |
American. Developed first vaccine against polio |
