Contributors to Scientific Knowledge

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Contributors to Scientific Knowledge

• Dr. Ashley Campbell
• SCIE 4101
• August 25, 2003

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• How many famous scientists
• can you name?
• Write down as many as possible.

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TExESScience 4-8
Standard VI The science teacher understands the
history and nature of science.
The beginning teacher knows and
understands 6.9k the historical development
of science and the contributions that
diverse cultures and individuals of
both genders have made to scientific
knowledge.
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Biology

• Leeuwenhoek
• Robert Hooke
• Schleiden Schwann
• Charles Darwin
• Gregor Mendel
• Louis Pasteur
• Gerty and Carl Cori
• Barbara McClintock
• Rosalind Franklin
• Watson and Crick
• Gertrude Bell Elion

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Chemistry

• Robert Boyle
• Amedeo Avogadro
• Dmitri Mendeleev
• Marie Curie
• Ernest Rutherford
• Emma Perry Carr
• Irene Joliet-Curie
• Linus Pauling
• Dorothy Hodgkin

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Physics

• Galileo Galilei
• Issac Newton
• Michael Faraday
• James Maxwell
• Marie Curie
• Lise Meitner
• Albert Einstein, Emmy Noether
• Neils Bohr
• Arthur Compton
• Maria Goeppart Mayer
• Chien-Shiung Wu

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Earth Science

• James Hutton
• Charles Lyell
• Florence Bascom
• Alfred Wegener

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Space Science

• Nicholaus Copernicus
• Johannes Kepler
• Maria Mitchell
• Mary Watson Whitney
• E. Margaret Burbridge

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• Strategies for teaching your students about
  famous scientists
• Student projects on a famous
• scientist provide a diverse list of
• possible scientists
• Students role play life of scientist
• Strategy for the TExES
• Use flash cards

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• NSTA Student Chapter
• Women in Science class
• Contact Info
• Website cos.uta.edu/campbell
• Click on Teacher Resources