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- Adolf Hitler
- ruled Nazi Germany, 50 million died WWII, mad-man of the century
- Gregor Mendel
- Father of Genetics, study of heredity, dominant & recessive
- Mahatma Ghandi
- "great soul", non-violent civil disobedience, India's independence from Britain
- Charles Babbage
- "Father of the computer"
- Margaret Sanger
- planned parenthood - sex education
- Winston Churchill
- leader in England in WWII, vision & courage
- Ferdinand Magellan
- first journey around the Earth, proved world is round (circumnavigate 1519)
- Adam Smith
- "the Wealth of Nations" - show world how economics works, Laissez Faire, separated economics from politics
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- "father of atomic bomb", head of Manhattan project (development of a-bomb)
- Vladimir Lenin
- father of Communist (Bolshevik) revolution in Russia
- Joseph Stalin
- merciless dictator, provoked cold war, industrialized Russia - giant
- Florence Nightingale
- metaphor=helping others, standards for first clean hospitals, "lady with the lamp"
- George Washington
- first president; set that the president only serves 2 terms; "father of our Country", personified what leader should be
- James Watt
- rural --> Urban life, godfather of industrial revolution
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- last leader of Soviet Union, his reforms led to the fall of communism
- Mao Zedong
- killed millions of people - ruled China for 27 years, leader of China (communist)
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- original feminist, daughter wrote Frankenstein
- Karl Marx
- Communist Manifesto, ("champion of the underclass"), "workers of the world unite", "you have nothing to lose but your chains"
- Edward Jenner
- cow pox "vaccination" prevented smallpox
- Henry Ford
- created assembly line; put america on wheels
- John Locke
- laid foundation for constitutional democracy, government based on human rights and separation of church & state
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- "The prince" - 4 questions answered - 1) what is power? 2) how does it work? 3) how do you get it? 4) how do you lose it?
- Johann Gutenberg
- the printing press (movable type), transform society, power of ideas and information
- Rachel Carson
- paul Rever of environmental movement, "silent Spring" - danger of pesticides (DDT)
- Albert Einstein
- Father of Nuclear age, age 26 - theory of relativity (E=MC2), atomic weapons (wrote letter to Roosevelt)
- Marie Curie
- laid groundwork for study of radioation, nobel prize for physics (first won by a woman), greatest woman scientist in history (discovered radium)
- Jonas Salk
- polio vaccine, ended polio in 1950s
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- "voice of Civil Rights movement" - legacy of hope and living together, non-violent civil disobedience
- Guglielmo Marconi
- built first radio, changed way we communicate
- Watson & Crick
- DNA structure, double helix
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- first scientist to theorize that Earth moves on axis & planets move & we orbit the sun (heliocentric theory), changed way people think of universe
- Charles Darwin
- theory of evolution, natural selection "survival of the fittest", "the origin of species", 5 years on boat - HMS beagel
- Gregory pincus
- "father of the birth control pill", sexual revolution, slowed population bomb
- Franklin Roosevelt
- elected presdient 4 times, pulled country out of Great Depression, WWII, new deal program to end
- Galileo Galilei
- science of modern astronomy, symbol - freedom of thought, proved heliocentric theory
- Sir Francis Bacon
- father of the Scientific method; thought, reason, & science
- Thomas Edison
- light bulb, 1093 patents, first motion picture machine, wizard of Menloe park
- Isaac Newton
- founder of modern csience, laws of motion, devised calculus, laws of optics, science would be center of world
- Alexander Fleming
- penicillin, "the wonder drug"
- Alexander Graham Bell
- invented telephone in 1876