Scientific Fathers
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- Greek: Famous for his work with BUOYANCY. Considered the FATHER OF EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
- Archimedes
- Father of Modern Chemistry
- Robert Boyle (Think ... Chemistry ... "boil"
- Father of the Bunsen Burner
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
- Father of Analytical Geometry AND modern philosophy
- Rene "I think, therefore I am" DesCartes
- Father of Relativity
- Albert Einstein
- Father of Modern Rocketry
- Robert Goddard
- Greek: Father of Medicine
- Hippocrates
- Father of Vaccination
- Edward Jenner
- Father of Microbiology
- Anton Von Leeuwenhoek
- Father of Modern Botany
- Carolus Lennaeus
- Father of Bacteriology and preventative medicine
- Louis Pasteur (pasteurization too!)
- Father of Nuclear Science
- Earnest Rutherford
- Father of the Atomic Bomb - lead scientist of the Manhattan Project to build atomic bomb at Los Almos New Mexico (WWII)
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Father of the Hydrogen Bomb; the 2nd generation of the atomic bomb (much more powerful)
- Edward Teller (famous/infamous) for labeling Oppenheimer as possible communist sympathizer
- Father of Anatomy and one of the 1st to practice human dissection
- Andreas Vesalius
- 1st to split atom in nuclear fusion. 1st to produce an atomic chain reaction.
- Enrico Fermi.
- Introduced the quantum theory of energy. Won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Max Planck
- Physicist who developed 1st practical thermometer.
- Gabriel Fahrenheit
- Swiss Physicist who developed theory of pressure and gasses
- Daniel BERNOULLI
- Developed principles of electromagnetism
- Andre Marie AMPERE
- Discovered the electron in 1897.
- Sir Joseph John Thompson
- Discovered the nuetron in 1932
- Sir James Chadwick
- Founder of the Modern Quantum Theory of Matter; Won 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Niels Bohr
- Developed the Barometer
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Developed Theory of Universal Gravitation
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Discovered X Rays
- Wilhelm Roentgen
- Discovered Radium
- Pierre and Marie Curie
- Father of Wireless Telegraph
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Father of Nuclear Physics
- Earnst Rutherford
- Developed Wave Theory of Light
- Christiaan Huygens
- German Astronomer who discovered that earth moves in Elliptical patterns around the sun
- Johannes Keppler