20th century scientist
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- Louis Latimer
- invented threaded wooden socket for lightbulb
- Dr. Frederick Banting
- went to the University of Toronto
- Dr. Frederick Banting
- worked on the cure for diabetis after a childhood friend became very ill with the disease and died
- Dian Fossey
- interested in animals her whole life
- John Muir
- 1892- founded the Sierra Club "to do something for wilderness"
- Dr. Frederick Banting
- 1921-he isolated insuline to unlock the mystery of diabetis
- Louis Latimer
- supervised the installation of the first electric street lights in Philadelphia, New York, Montreal, and London
- Alfred Wegner
- died on his third expedition to Greenland
- John Muir
- worked toward gaining popular and federal support for forest conservation
- Dian Fossey
- 1963- met Dr Louis Leaky
- Robert Ballard
- discovered black smokers of underwater volcanoes
- Robert Ballard
- 1985-discovered A.M.S. Titanic, the Bismark, the Lusitania, PT109, The York Town and The Andoria Doria
- Sigmund Freud
- created new field of scientific inquiry which investigates a human's internal mind
- Dian Fossey
- attended San Jose Stae as a pre-vet student
- Sigmund Freud
- strongly influenced 20th century theories of child rearing and education, art, literature, and culture
- Dr. Frederick Banting
- many patients made miraculous recoveries
- Dr. Frederick Banting
- 1941-decided he wanted to be a doctor when he saw doctors caring for patients at an accident
- Louis Latimer
- 1882- invented device used to manufacture carbon filiments used in electric lamps
- Dr. Frederick Banting
- established a surgical practice in London, Ontario
- Sigmund Freud
- many collegues were hostile towards his ideas
- Alfred Wegner
- hypothesized that the continents slowly drifted apart from a single land mass
- Robert Ballard
- Ph.D. in marine geophysics
- Sarah E. Goode
- born into slavery in 1850
- Louis Latimer
- helped make possible the widespread use of elctric lights
- Robert Ballard
- began an institute for exploration to train others deep water acheaology
- Robert Ballard
- discovered tube worms that were up to 8 feet long
- Sigmund Freud
- he founded physconalysist (personality talking cure, treated mental illness)
- Louis Latimer
- was the only African-American on Edison's team
- Sigmund Freud
- first person to scientifically explore the human subconscience
- Dian Fossey
- wrote Gorillas in the MIst
- Dian Fossey
- lived almost 18 years amoung gorillas
- Sarah E. Goode
- freed at end of Civil War
- Dian Fossey
- found murdered in her cabin by poachers the day after Christmas (1985)
- Dian Fossey
- began studying gorilllas in Africa
- Sigmund Freud
- added psychological treatment methods to the biological basis of psychiatry
- John Muir
- influenced President Teddy Rosevelt to create the National Park Service to protect and set aside land for the enjoyment of all people
- John Muir
- his writings caused the first public interest in conservation
- Robert Ballard
- discovered ocean water is cycled through the Earth's crust changing the mineral compostion in the process
- Robert Ballard
- developed remote control robotic camera "Argo" to explore the deep sea and map the ocean floor
- Robert Ballard
- undersea explorer/ marine scientist/ naval officer
- Dian Fossey
- started the Karische Research Center in Rwanda
- Dr. Frederick Banting
- 1923-won nobel prize for medicine
- John Muir
- American inventor, Naturalists, Conservationists
- Dian Fossey
- brought attention to the problelm of poaching mountain gorillias
- Alfred Wegner
- his hypothesis is now excepted after being rejected
- Sarah E. Goode
- first African-American women to receive a patent
- Sarah E. Goode
- moved to Chicago to open a furniture store when she realized she could make money selling furniture to people to the city
- John Muir
- nickname was "Father of National Parks"
- Dian Fossey
- was a primatologist
- Alfred Wegner
- was a meterologist and a geophysisist
- Sarah E. Goode
- city apartmetns ere small so she designed folding cabinet beds served as desks also