Scientists and their Discoveries
a list of scientists and what they discovered
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- Hippocrates
- first to state that diseases have natural causes
- Michael Faraday
- laws of electricity and magnetism
- Alfred Wegener
- Theory of Continental Drift
- Harry Hess
- Sea Floor Spreading--->Theory of Plate Tectonics
- Dmitri Mendleleev
- Organized periodic table of elements
- Antoine Lavoisier
- law of conservation of mass, father of chemistry
- Albert Einstien
- E=MC2--->Theory of relitivity, Manhattan Project, law of plotoelectric effect--->light bends due to gravetation
- Wilhelm Rontgen
- discovered x-rays
- Galileo
- tested theories of gravity, improved the telescope
- Thomas Edison
- lightbulb, phonograph, holds 1,093 US patents
- Enrico Fermi
- father of nuclear energy, first to produce nuclear chain reaction--->fission
- Eratosthenis
- measured the size of the earth using geometry
- Steven Hawking
- Modern theories of cosmology, black holes, suffers from ALS
- Earnest Rutherford
- proposed orbital theory for the atom
- John Dalton
- atomic theory, color blindness
- Robert Boyle
- Boyle's Law-volume and pressure are inversley proportional to one another at the same temperature
- Alfred Nobel
- inventor of dynamite
- Archemides
- used simple machines for many purposes, found formula for density d=m/v
- Aristotle
- developed many ideas and theories that led to modern discoveries from the questions he asked
- Edwin Hubble
- discovered galaxies other than the Milky Way, Red Shift doppler effect proved that universe was expanding
- Pythagoris
- a2+b2=c2 and also created harmonies(found relationship between music and math)
- Nikola Tesla
- AC/DC, death-ray
- Isaac Newton
- laws of force and motion, white light is a mixture of all the colors in the rainbow
- Niels Bohr
- Quantim Physics(study of atomic structure. Bohr model, Manhattan Project
- Marie Curie
- radioactive experiments
- Louis Pasteur
- pasturization
- Johannes Kepler
- 3 laws of planetary motion
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- created heliocentric solar system (sun-centered)
- Jacques Charles
- Charle's Law-volume and temperature are directly proportional to one another at the same pressure
- Gregor Mendel
- father of genetics
- JJ Thompson
- discovered the electron, found isotopes
- Alexander Flemming
- Invented pennicilin