History and Nature of the Earth/Space Sciences
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Karenbaren on May 7, 2012
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Careers in the Earth/Space Sciences, Key events in the Understanding of hte Earth/Space Sciences, Women and Men who have shaped the development of the Earth/Space Sciences
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Geologist | Rock waters. Studiers of the origin of earth, history of earth, and the external and internal structure and movements of the earth. |
| Oceanographer | A studier of the characteristics of the seafloor, the ocean itself, and the forms of life in, on, and under the ocean |
| Meteorologist | A studier of atmospheric phenomena and how various weather systems affect life on earth |
| Astronomer | A studier of physics and mathematics and computer sciences dealing with the space |
| 1969 | The American Apollo missions bring rocks home from the moon to the earth |
| 1974 | Stephen Hawking applies quantum field theory to black hole spacetime and shows that black holes radiate mass/energy that may result in their evaporation |
| 1980 | Alan Guth proposes the inflationary Big Bang universe, which suggests that the universe expanded at a rate that kept doubling for a brief period of time after the Big Bang |
| Ptolemy 85-165 AD | an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. He proposed that the earth was at the center of the universe and that the sun and planets moved in orbits around it |
| Tycho Brahe 1546-1601 | A Danish atronomer gathered data that were eventually used to predict the motion and orbits of the planets. |
| Sophia Brahe 1556 - 1643 | The younger sister of Tycho Brahe who gathered and contributed data used to predict jplanetary orbits |
| Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 - 1543 | A mathematician, physician, lawyer, and perhaps priest who became known for suggesting that the sun was at rest in the center of the universe. This is known as the heliocentric theory |
| Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955 | A German born physicist whose special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity provided the basis for much of what is known about the nature of time, space, and matter |
| Stephen Hawking 1942 to present | An English physicist who emerged as one of the most inventive scientific geniuses since Einstein. His theories about black holes and the origin of the universe guide what today's cosmologists explore. |
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