People And Their Stuff
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- Albert Einstein
- Theory of relativity
- Alexander Graham Bell
- telephone
- Charles Darwin
- Theory of evolution
- Daimler and Benz
- Internal combustion engine in an automobile
- Dmitri Mendeleyev
- Periodic Table of Elements
- Edward Jenner
- Developed an effective vaccine for smallpox (w/o knowing reason why it works)
- Ernest Rutherford
- Atomic structure (nucles, electrons going around)
- Gergor Mendel
- Genetics work with pea plants
- Gulglielmo Marconi
- Radio communication
- J.J. Thompson
- Electrons
- Jean Baptiste Lamarck
- Developed evolutionary theory which held living beings adapt to fit their environment (was totally wrong)
- John Dalton
- Developed a system of of atomic wegihts
- Joseph Lister
- Antisepsis for use in the medical field
- Louis Pasteur
- Explained the role of bacteria in fermentation and disease
- Michael Faraday
- First to produce electricity from magnetism (electromagnet)
- Pierre and Marie Curie
- Experimented with radioactive elements uranium and radium
- Robert Koch
- Developed a vaccine for tuberculosis and some forms of cholera
- Rudolph Virchow
- Refined cell theory, stating that only living and produce living matter
- Schleiden and Schwann
- Cell theory
- Wilhelm Roentgen
- Developed a process of taking x rays