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

   
    Avicenna medicine Wrote an encyclopedia on medicine in Iran
  Charles

Babbage

programmer  
  Benjamin

Banneker

   
  Clara

Barton

nurse  
  Florence

Bascom

geologist  
  Alexander Graham

Bell

  Telephone
  Karl Benz   Automobile
  Neils

Bohr

   
  Rachel

Brown

   
   

Bunsen

   
  Luther

Burbank

   
  Chester Carlson   Photocopier
    Carpenter Electric Co.   Electric stove & electric kettle
Rachel

Carson

author marine biologist Silent Spring
  Jewel

Cobb

biologist  
  Nicholas

Copernicus

   
  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

   
  Thomas Alva

Edison

inventor Electric light bulb, motor driven phonograph
  Albert

Einstein

physicist theory of relativity E=mc2
  GertrudeB.

Elion

pharmacologist  
  Gladys

Emerson

   
   

Fahrenheit

   
  Michael

Faraday

   
   

Fermi

   
  Alva Fisher   Electric washing machine
  Enrico

Fleming

   
  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

   
  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

   
    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

   
  Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak   Personal computer
  Annie

Jump Cannon

astronomer  
  Ernest

Just

   
   

Kelvin

   
  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

   
  Maria

Mayer

nuclear physicist  
  Barbara

McClintock

geneticist  
    McGraw Electric Company   Pop up toaster
  Sylvia

Mead

   
  Margret

Mead

anthropologist  
  Lillie Minoka-Hill nutritionist Native American who carried out nutrition research
  Maria

Mitchell

astronomer  
  Garrett

Morgan

   
  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

   
    Racine Universal Motor Company   Electric Hair Dryer
Picture Lisa Randall   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.
 
  Judith

Resnik

astronaut  
  Sally

Ride

astronaut  
  Leon

Roddy

   
  Daniel

Rutherford

   
  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
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  Percy LeBaron Spencer   Microwave oven
  Nikola Tasla   Electric Motor
  Edward

Teller

   
  Valentina

Tereshkova

   
  Ellen Swallow

Tichards

chemist  
  Evangelista

Torricelli

  air pressure
  Charles

Turner

   
  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

   
  George

Washington Carver

   
  James

Watt

physicist  
  George

Westinghouse

  Elevator disc breaks
  Anna Pell

Wheeler

   
  Robert

Whitehead

   
  Daniel

Williams

   
  Friedrich

Wohler

   
  Granville

Woods

   
  Chien-Shiung

Wu or Chin Shiun Wu

nuclear physicist  
  Rosalyn

Yalow

nuclear physcist  
   

Zeppelin

   

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