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20 Cards in this Set
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Discovered the buoyant force principle
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Archimedes
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Formulated the laws of planetary motion
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Kepler
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Discovered micro-organisms
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Van Leuwenhoek
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Built the first Battery
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Volta
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Published " Priciples of Geology ", a work that helped to found modern Geology
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Lyell
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Made the first vaccination
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Jenner
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Discovered energy and heat are interchangeable at a fixed rate
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Joule
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Discovered Natural radioactivity
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Becquerel
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Originated Quantum Theory
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Plank
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Made the First mercury Thermometer
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Fahrenheit
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Discovered Penicillin
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Flemming
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First man in Space
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Gagrain
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First American in Space
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Shepherd
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Formulated the modern system of taxonomy
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Linnaeus
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Proposed the first atomic theory
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Democritis
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Proposed the modern day atomic theory
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Dalton
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Discovered x-rays
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Roetgen
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Propesed the basic structure of the modern day periodic table
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Mendeleev
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Transmitted the first electromagnetic signal through air
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Marconi
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First isolated and identified oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide
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Priestly
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