History 8
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Victoria-Leigh on December 15, 2008
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Luxembourgish | English |
|---|---|
| Piere and Marie Curie |  isolated radium and determined its atomic weight |
| Niels Bohr | made first model of an adom |
| Theodor Schwann | Determined we are mde up of cells |
| Charles Darwin | Sought to develop a scientific argument for organic evolution |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | carried Social Darwinism to its logical end |
| Karl Marx | co-auther of The Communist Manifesto |
| Georg Hegel | Developed the concept of dialectics |
| Friedrich Engels | co-auther of the Communist Manifesto |
| Sigmund Freud | founder of psychoanalysis |
| Max Planck | discovered quantum |
| Albert Einstein | formed the theory of relativity |
| Louis Pastuer | co-founder of the field of microbiology |
| Relativism | the theory that there are no absolutes |
| Materialism | the theory that the spiritual realm does not exist |
| Liberalism | Religion which begins with man rather than God |
| Darwinism | A theory of biological evolution |
| Nihilism | one set of values is just as good as another |
| Social Darwinism | Evolutionary theories applied to society |
| Thermodynamics | The energy available for use is running down |
| Communism | Social Darwinism applied to economics and governement |
| Quantum | A bundle of energy given off by radioactive material |
| Theory of Relativity | All motion is relative to the observer |
| Finite | That which has an end |
| Variations/mutations | changed within a species |
| Psychology | The study of the soul or mind |
| Psychoanalysis | The theory of sub-conscious |
| Behaviorism | The theory that our behavior is in response to our environment |
| Socialism | The "scientific" study of society |
| Capitalism | Economic theory encouraging free use of capital |
| Anarchists | Violently demanded the end of all government |
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