| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Hippocrates | first to state that disease had natural causes, world's first dr. |
| Aristole | devolped many ideas that lead to modern day discoveries |
| Eratoshenes | scientist and mathamatican, measured the size of the earth using geometery |
| Pythagoras | mathamatican/scientist/musician, devolped pythagorean theory,devolped musical harmonies |
| Archimedes | inventor and scientist,used simple machines for many purposes |
| Jacques Charles | Charle's Law-volume and temperature are directly proportional to one another at the same pressure |
| Robert Boyle | Boyle's Law-volume and pressure are inversley proportional to one another at the same temperature |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | devolped the idea of the sun centered solar system |
| Galileo Galieil | improved the telescope,tested theories of gravity,many space discoveries |
| Antoine Lavassier | father of chemistry formed the idea of Law of Conservation of Mass |
| Johannes Kelper | 3 Laws of Planetary Motion |
| Issac Newton | Laws of Force and Motion,stated that white light is a mixture of all colors of the specturm |
| Dimitri Mendeleey | organized the perodic table of elements |
| John Dalton | atomic theory, color blindness (Daltonism) |
| JJ Thompson | discovered the electron, he called them corpuscles, found istopes |
| Earnest Rutherford | proposed orbital theory for the atom |
| Micheal Faraday | laws of electricity and magnetism |
| Gregor Mandal | Father of Gentics, discovered recessive and domiant traits, expirmented with pea plants |
| Louis Pasteur | Microbiologist/Chemist, formed the idea of pasteurazation and disproved the idea of spontaneous generation forever |
| Alfred Nobel | inventor of dynamite, he left his fortune to fund Nobel Prizes |
| Wilhem Rontgen | discovered x-rays |
| Thomas Edison | famous inventor, holds 1093 us patents |
| Alfred Wegener | geologist, created the theory of contiential drift, believed there once was a super contient-Pangea, His idea led to the theory of plate tectonics |
| Harry Hess | Geologist/ww11 officer, created the idea pf seafloor spreading and proved plate tectonics |
| Marie Curie | Radioactive expirments, first women to win the nobel peace prize, discovered many radioactive elements such as:radium,polonium and francium |
| Nikola Tesla | Engineer/Inventor, invented the AC/DC(alternating/direct current) created the death ray |
| Niels Bohr | created quantum physics-the study of atomic structure. Created the Bohr Model showing electrons in orbitals, Manhattan Project- Atomic bomb |
| Edwin Hubble | Asronomer, discovered galaxies otherthan the Milky Way, Red Shift- used the doppler effect to prove that the universe is expanding |
| Enrico Fermi | Father of Nuclear Energy, first to produce a nuclear reactor, produced the first nuclear chain reaction...fission |
| Stephen Hawking | modern theories of cosmology (outerspace: stars, planets etc..), therories of Black Holes, suffers from lou Gehrigs Disease |
| Albert Einsten | E=mc2- theory of relativity, law of photoelectric effect- light bends due to gravitation, Manhattan Project Leader- Atomic Bomb |
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