Famous Scientists
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- Proposed the geocentric theory
- Ptolomy
- Believed that all life began in the sea
- Anaximander
- Collected data supporting the heliocentric theory using a telescope but had to recant it.
- Galileo
- One of the first scientists
- Thales
- Disproved many of Aristotle's ideas
- Bradwardine
- Believed all things were contructed of air
- Anaximenes
- Developed the idea of spontaneous generation
- Aristotle
- Destroyed the idea of the immutability of species and introduced evolution.
- Darwin
- Father of atomic theory
- Leucippus
- Built the microscope
- van Leeuwenhoek
- The first to break from the geocentric view of the universe
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Destroyed the idea of spontaneous generation and introduced the vaccines.
- Pasteur
- Demonstrated what we now call atmospheric pressure
- Pascal
- Realized that matter cannot be created or destroyed and that it only changes forms.
- Lavoisier
- Considered the first modern scientist and the father of the scientific method
- Grosseteste
- Said that the earth took millions of years to form
- Lyell
- His work showed that planets don't travel around the sun in circles
- Kepler
- The founder of modern physics
- Maxwell
- Solved the mystery of the rainbow
- Von Freiberg
- The founder of modern chemistry
- Boyle
- Student of Grosseteste and advocated his work
- Bacon
- Developed the model of the atom.
- Bohr
- Developed the heliocentric system
- Copernicus
- Developed the Three Laws of Motion and considered the greatest scientist of all
- Newton
- Wrote the first book that illustrated all the insides of the human body
- Vesalius
- Known as the electrical giant
- Faraday
- Best known for his work with fluids
- Archimedes
- Developed the classification of all living things
- Linnaeus
- Believed that all matter is made of atoms
- Democritus
- Developed the First Law of Thermodynamics
- Joule
- Developed two theories of relativity.
- Einstein
- His work was the basis for genetics
- Mendel
- Proposed that energy exists in small packets or quanta.
- Planck
- The founder of the modern atomic theory
- Dalton