Scientists the field of study and discoveries
First Name | Last Name | Field of Study | Discovery notes | |
Amphere |
physicist | |||
Elizabeth | Anderson | medicine | first women physician in England | |
Archimedes |
water pressure & displacement | |||
Neil | Armstrong |
astronaut | first human on moon | |
Isaac | Asimov |
author | ||
John J. | Audubon |
artist naturalist | ||
Jacqueline | Auriol |
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Avicenna | medicine | Wrote an encyclopedia on medicine in Iran | ||
Charles | Babbage |
programmer | ||
Benjamin | Banneker |
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Clara | Barton |
nurse | ||
Florence | Bascom |
geologist | ||
Alexander Graham | Bell |
Telephone | ||
Karl | Benz | Automobile | ||
Neils | Bohr |
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Rachel | Brown |
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Bunsen |
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Luther | Burbank |
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Chester | Carlson | Photocopier | ||
Carpenter Electric Co. | Electric stove & electric kettle | |||
Rachel | Carson |
author marine biologist | Silent Spring | |
Jewel | Cobb |
biologist | ||
Nicholas | Copernicus |
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Jacques Yves | Cousteau |
oceanographer | SCUBA self contained underwater breathing apperatus | |
Marie | Curie |
physicist | ||
Leo | Daft & Charlse Van DePoele | Electric street car | ||
Charles | Darwin |
biologist | Theory of evolution, natural selection, Origin of the Species 1859. | |
Diesel |
Engine | |||
Charles | Drew |
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Thomas Alva | Edison |
inventor | Electric light bulb, motor driven phonograph | |
Albert | Einstein |
physicist | theory of relativity E=mc2 | |
GertrudeB. | Elion |
pharmacologist | ||
Gladys | Emerson |
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Fahrenheit |
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Michael | Faraday |
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Fermi |
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Alva | Fisher | Electric washing machine | ||
Enrico | Fleming |
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Henry | Ford |
assembly line | ||
Dian | Fossey |
primatologist | ||
Benjamin | Franklin |
statesman scientist author | electricity flow and charges | |
Galileo | Galilei |
astronomer | telescope to verify planets and sun as center of the universe gravity experiments scientific theory | |
Manuel | Garcia |
Invented the larynogoscope in Spain | ||
Lillian Moller | Gilbreth |
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John | Glenn |
astronaut | first American to orbit earth | |
Jane | Goodall | zoologist | studied wild chimpanzees | |
Charles | Goodyear |
chemist | vulcanized rubber | |
Temple | Grandin | Animal science CSU inventor livestock handling; interviewed many TV programs | visual thinker, highly sensitive to sound, autistic | |
Stephen | Hawking | British physicist | unified theory; inflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | |
Olive C. | Hazlett |
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Hoover Co. | Electric Vacuum | |||
Grace Murray | Hopper |
mathematician | ||
David E. | Hughes | Printing telegraph | ||
Michiko | Ishimura | medicine | Japanese woman who examined the effects of heavy metal poisoning | |
Shirley | Jackson |
theoretical physicist | ||
Thomas | Jefferson | President, farmer, inventor | Macaroni and Cheese plow, | |
Edward | Jenner |
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Steve | Jobs and Steve Wozniak | Personal computer | ||
Annie | Jump Cannon |
astronomer | ||
Ernest | Just |
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Kelvin |
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Johann | Kepler |
astronomer | Kepler's law | |
Reatha Clark | King |
chemist | ||
Harry | Lang | research on deaf scientists, author more than 50 scholarly works | profoundly deaf | |
Rita | Levi-Montalcini |
biologist | ||
John | Logie Baird | Black and white TV | ||
Arnold | Maloney | medicine | A Trinidadian who examined antidotes for barbituate poisoning | |
Marconi |
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Maria | Mayer |
nuclear physicist | ||
Barbara | McClintock |
geneticist | ||
McGraw Electric Company | Pop up toaster | |||
Sylvia | Mead |
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Margret | Mead |
anthropologist | ||
Lillie | Minoka-Hill | nutritionist | Native American who carried out nutrition research | |
Maria | Mitchell |
astronomer | ||
Garrett | Morgan |
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John | Muir |
naturalist | ||
Isaac | Newton |
mathematician scientist | ||
Constance | Noguchi |
physical biochemist | ||
Onesimus | virolugist | A slave in Africa who discovered the inoculation for smallpox | ||
Edna | Paisano |
statistician | ||
Louis | Pasteur | biology | Pasteur | |
Gertrude | Perlmann | nutritionist | Czechoslovakian worked on protein chemistry | |
Susan | Picotte |
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Racine Universal Motor Company | Electric Hair Dryer | |||
Lisa Randall | Theoretical Physicist Professor of Physics at Harvard University Vitae Author Warped Passages - we inhabit a three-dimensional bubble in a universe of 10 or more spatial dimensions. Sometime in 2007 the Large Hadron Collider will come online with hopes of glimpsing into another spatial dimension. |
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Judith | Resnik |
astronaut | ||
Sally | Ride |
astronaut | ||
Leon | Roddy |
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Daniel | Rutherford |
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Carl | Sagan |
astronomer author | ||
Jonas | Salk |
medical researcher | polio vaceen | |
Berta | Scharrer | German women invented neuroendocribology | ||
George | Schmidt & Fred Isius | Electric food mixer | ||
Henry W. | Seely | Electric Iron | ||
Christopher | Sholes | Typewriter | ||
Singer Company | Electric sewing machine | |||
John | Snow | Father of modern epidemiology - London 1850's John persisted in determining how cholera was spread. By plotting his data on a map of London his conclusions and methods of study are historical. see links for his story, London's story, and other interesting stories. --------> great public works story | Cholera public health epidemiology anesthesiology statistical mapping science process history of science science inquiry | |
Percy LeBaron | Spencer | Microwave oven | ||
Nikola | Tasla | Electric Motor | ||
Edward | Teller |
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Valentina | Tereshkova |
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Ellen Swallow | Tichards |
chemist | ||
Evangelista | Torricelli |
air pressure | ||
Charles | Turner |
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Anthony | Van Leeuwenhoek |
biology | ||
Balzer | van Platen & Carl Munaters | Electric Refrigerator | ||
Pierre | Verdon | Food processor | ||
Gerett | Vermeij | evolutionary biology and paleontology U Cal-Davis | blind biologist, evolutionary marine biology | |
Volta |
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George | Washington Carver |
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James | Watt |
physicist | ||
George | Westinghouse |
Elevator disc breaks | ||
Anna Pell | Wheeler |
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Robert | Whitehead |
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Daniel | Williams |
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Friedrich | Wohler |
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Granville | Woods |
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Chien-Shiung | Wu or Chin Shiun Wu |
nuclear physicist | ||
Rosalyn | Yalow |
nuclear physcist | ||
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