Biologists, Geologists, Physicists, and Chemists
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- Who was the Swiss-born American who first introduced the idea of the Ice Age?
- Agassiz, Jean
- Who was the oceanographer who developed the aqualung, bathyscaph, and underwater photography techniques?
- Cousteau, Jacques
- Who drilled the first oil well and developed geological methods to find oil?
- Drake, Edwin
- Who developed the theory of sea-floor spreading?
- Hess, Harry
- Who mapped the current running along the coast of Peru and identified the Jurassic period?
- Humboldt, Alexander
- Who wrote "Principles of Geology" and was one of the first to postulate that the earth was millions of years old?
- Lyell, Charles
- Who said that "The present is the key to the past", proposed the idea of uniformitarianism, and was the founder of modern geology and geomorphology?
- Hutton, James
- Who developed a scale to measure the intensity of earth quakes?
- Mercalli, Giuseppe
- Who developed a scale to meaure the magnitude of earth quakes?
- Richter
- Who was the Yugoslavian who discovered that earthquake waves change as they travel just below the earth's crust?
- Mohorovicic, Andrija
- Who was the first to classify minerals on hardness?
- Mohs, Friedrich
- Who formulated the idea of continental drift?
- Wegener
- This Italian physicist had the unit of electrical potential named after him.
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Volta, Alessandro
(volt, V) - This French mathematician and physicist had the unit of electrical flow named after him.
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Ampere, Andre M.
(ampere, A) - This Scottish engineer and inventor had the unit of electrical power named after him.
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Watt, James
(watt, W) - This German physicist had the unit of electrical resistance named after him.
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Ohm, Georg S.
(ohm, V/A) - This German physicist had the reverse of his last name used for the common term of electrical conductivity
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Ohm, Georg S.
(mho, A/V) - This English chemist and physicist had the unit of electrical capacitance named after him.
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Faraday, Michael
(farad, F) - This French physicist had the unit of electrical charge named after him.
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Coulomb, Charles A.
(coulomb, C) - This Scottish physicist had the unit of magnetic flux named after him.
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Maxwell, James C.
(maxwell, Mx) - This German physicist had the unit of the frequency of electromagnetic waves named after him.
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Hertz, Heinrich R.
(hertz, Hz) - This German physicist had the unit of magnetic flux named after him.
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Weber, Wilhelm E.
(weber, Wb) - This Yugoslavian-born, American electrical inventor had the unit of magnetic flux density named after him.
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Tesla, Nikola
(tesla, T) - This American physicist and inventor had the unit of inductance named after him.
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Henry, Joseph.
(henry, H) - This German mathematician had the unit of magnetic field intensity named after him.
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Gauss, Karl F.
(gauss, G) - These French physicists had the unit of radium radiation named after them.
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Curie, Marie and Pierre
(curie, Ci) - This German physicist had the unit of radiation named after him.
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Roentgen, Wilhelm K.
(roentgen, R) - This Danish physicist had the unit of magnetic field intensity named after him.
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Oersted, Hans C.
(oersted, Oe) - This English natural philosopher had the unit of force named after him.
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Newton, Sir Isaac
(newton, N) - This French natural philosopher and mathematician had the unit of force or pressure named after him.
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Pascal, Blaise
(pascal, Pa) - This Italian physicist and mathematician had the unit of atmospheric pressure named after him.
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Torricelli, Evangelista
(torr) - This English physicist had the unit of energy named after him.
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Joule, James P.
(joule, J) - This Swedish physicist had the unit of length equal to 10 to the negative 8 power in centimeters (to specify radiation wavelengths) named after him.
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Angstrom, Anders J.
(angstrom, A) - This French pharmacist (yes, pharmacist) had the scale of liquid densities named after him.
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Baume, Antoine
(Baume, Be) - This German physicist had a unit of temperature named after him.
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Fahrenheit, Gabriel D.
(Fahrenheit, F) - This Swedish astronomer had a unit of temperature named after him.
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Celsius, Anders
(Celsius, C) - This British physicist had a unit of temperature named after him.
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Lord Kelvin / Thomson, William
(Kelvin, K) - This Italian physicist had the element with atomic number 100 named after him because he was 100% awesome!
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Fermi, Enrico
(fermium, Fe) - These French physicists had the element with atomic number 96 named after them. Working together, they were only 96% awesome.
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Curie, Pierre and Marie
(curium, Cm) - This German-born American physicist had the element with atomic number 99 named after him. He was only 99% awesome.
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Einstein, Albert
(einsteinium, E) - This Russian chemist had the element with atomic number 101 named after him. He was 101% awesome because he invented the periodic table.
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Mendeleev, Dmitri I.
(mendelevium, Mv) - This Swedish inventor had the element with atomic number 102 named after him. He was 102% awesome, with the prize.
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Nobel, Alfred B.
(nobelium, No)