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Famous Scientists

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Sir Isaac Newton
Developed three laws of motion, a law of gravitation, and made light and math discoveries
Henry Cavendish
Discovered hydrogen in 1766
William Herschel
Discovered infra-red waves in 1800. He also discovered Uranus and many stars
Antoine Lavoisier
Catholic who named oxygen in 1779. Named some components of air and water
Humphrey Davy
Discovered potassium, sodium, magnesium, barium, calcium, and strontium 1807-1808
James Joule
Formulated the relationship between heat, power, and work in 1843
Louis Pasteur
Catholic who pioneered the rabies vaccine and the pasteurization process.
Joseph Lister
First to use carbolic acid as an antiseptic.
Max Planck
Proposed quantum theory in 1900, stating that energy consists of small units called "quanta"
Marie Curie
Pioneer of research into radioactivity, discovered Polonium and Radium
Albert Einstein
Published special and general theories of relativity which form the basis of our ideas about the universe
Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin in 1928. It was first used in WWII.
Dmitri Mendeleev
Devised Periodic Table of the Elements
Wilhelm Rontgen
Discovered x-rays
James Watson & Francis Crick
Co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953
Gregor Mendel
Catholic who was the founder of science of genetics
Archimedes
Known for Archimedes' principle, Archimede's screw, hydrostatics, levers, and infinitesimals
Jonas Salk
First successful polio vaccine
Roger Bacon
Catholic who is known as the grandfather of the Scientific Method
Fr. Georges Lemaitre
Priest known as the father of the Big Bang Theory
Amedeo Avogadro
Catholic noted for contributions to molecular theory and Avogadro's Law
Albert Claude
Catholic who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contributions to cytology
Bartolomeo Eustachi
Catholic who is one of the founders of human anatomy
Hieronymus Fabricius
Catholic who is known as the father of embryology
Johannes Peter Muller
Catholic who is considered the founder of modern physiology
Theodor Schwann
Catholic who is considered the founder of the theory of the cellular structure of animal organisms
Andreas Vesalius
Catholic known as the father of modern human anatomy
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