Scientific Contributors

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ScientificContributors

• Ancient Greeks to Modern Day

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Ancient Greeks

• Hippocrates first doctor, stated that diseases
  have natural causes.
• Eratosthenes estimated size of earth, advanced
  geometry.
• Archimedes catapult, Density formula, dm/v
• Pythagorus A2B2C2
• Aristotle developed many theories that led to
  modern day discoveries.
• Domocrites philosopher and mathematician,
  developed theory of atoms (atomos).

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Age of Genius 1600s/1700s

• Nicolaus Copernicus sun centered solar system.
• Leonardo DaVinciRenaissance painter (the Mona
  Lisa) and an engineer, created designs for
  helicopters, tanks, solar power, bridges and
  human anatomy.
• Galileo Galilei improved telescope -many space
  discoveries. Tested theory of gravity.
• Andreas Vesalius Anatomy Physiology, dissected
  stray cats dogs, humansmade detailed drawings
  and books that later advanced surgery.
• Antoine Lavoisier father of modern chemistry,
  developed the law of conservation of matter.
• Isaac Newton laws of force motion, white light
  is a mixture of all colors.

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Robert Boyle developed gas and pressure laws.
Age of Technology
1800s Dmitri Mendeleev organized the modern
periodic table Carolus Linnaeus developed the
classification system for plants and
animals Robert Hooke Biology, used simple
microscopes to develop cell model and cell
theory. John Dalton Developed the atomic
theory. Michael Faraday did the groundwork for
the age of electricity amd developed first
electric motor. Charles Darwin Theory of
evolution.
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• Gregor Mendel laws of heredity, recessive and
  dominant genes.
• Alfred Nobel Invented dynamite (sand,
  nitroglycerin). Peace prize named for him.
• Wilhelm Rontgen discovered x-rays accidentally
  while experimenting with electricity. Shadow
  showed up on Barium treated piece of cardboard.
• Thomas Edison Famous inventor who created
  electrical devices (light bulb). First to use
  electricity.
• William Burroughs invented first calculator,
  1885.

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age of technology

• Earnest Rutherford- physicist, discovered
  protons. Won Nobel prize for work on alpha, beta
  and gamma rays.
• J.J. Thompson-1906 Nobel prize winner in physics
  for his research on the discharge of electricity
  in gases (cathode tube experiment)-charge of
  electrons
• Alexander Graham Bell- changed communication with
  development of telephone.

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Modern Science 1900-present

• Albert Einstein - German born, many inventions
  and Theory of Relativity Emc2
• Daniel Hale Williams- First African American to
  win Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine. He performed
  the first of many successful heart surgeries.
• Marie Curie- radioactive experiments, 1st woman
  to win Nobel Peace prize
• James Hillier - electron scan microscope
  magnification of 7000 x.
• Lewis Parker - combined transfer of sound and
  light information- first TV. First TV
• Herb Boyer - father of genetic engineering
  (cloning)
• Alexander Flemming - developed penicillin
• Nikola Tesla - inventor, worked with magnetic
  fields and alternating current- AC/DC.
• Niels Bohr- created quantum physics, developed
  Bohr model of atom.

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• Edwin Hubble- used doppler effect to prove that
  the universe is expanding (red shift)
• Don Keck- invented fiber optics transports more
  info at a faster rate
• Enrico Fermi- father of nuclear age, developed
  nuclear fission(splitting of atom)
• Alfred Wegener- developed concept of sea-floor
  spreading and Plate Tectonics
• Stephen Hawking- proved Einsteins theories,
  developed modern theories of cosmology (space)
• Michio Kaku theoretical physicist who cofounded
  superstring theory and help prove many of
  Einsteinss ideas.