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28 Cards in this Set
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Louise Pasteur |
Discovered vaccines and germs can cause diseases |
Germs |
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Leonardo Da Vinci |
A scientist and a great artist |
Inventor |
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Stephen Hawking |
Discovered blackhole |
PWD |
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Carl Linnaeus |
Introduced a way of classifying living things |
Classification |
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Marie Curie |
Fist woman to receive Nobel Prize |
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Antoine Lavoisier |
Discovered oxygen |
O |
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Galileo Galelei |
Father of Modern science - observational astronomy |
Celestials |
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Archimedes |
Principle of buoyancy |
Buoyancy |
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Wilhelm Roentgen |
X-ray; Xray machines |
X ray |
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Tim Bermers-Lee |
World wide web |
Www |
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Guglielmo Marconi |
Radio telegraphy |
Radio telegraphy |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Lightning as a form of bifocal glasses |
President |
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Igor Sikorsky |
Helicopter |
Chopper |
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Alegsandro Volta |
Voltaic cell, battery |
Battery |
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Alfred Nobel |
Dynamite |
Dynamite |
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Samuel Morse |
Telegraphy, morse code |
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Montgolfiers brothers |
Hot-airballoon |
Airballoon |
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Alexander Fleming |
Penicillin |
Pen |
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Robert Oppenheimer |
Atomic bomb |
Atomic |
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Thomas Edison |
Incandescent light bulb; phonograph |
Light bulb |
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Karl Benz |
Petrol powered automobile |
Automobile |
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John Moses Browning |
Automatic handgun |
Gun |
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Blaise Pascal |
Barometer |
Barometer |
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Charles Goodyear |
Vulcanization of rubber |
Vulcanization |
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Orville & Wilbur Wright |
Powered airplane |
Airplane |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Telephone |
Telephone |
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Henry Moseley |
Arranged the periodic table according to increasing atomic number. Invented atomic battery - used where long battery is essential. |
e.g. Spacecraft and heart space maker |
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Luis Alvarez |
Invented microwave phased array antenna, a type of radar |
Microwave phased array, a type of radar |
