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SCIENTISTS OF THE WORLD

George Washington Carver

USA- a pioneer in agricultural history.

Enrico Fermi

Italy- lead scientist in the development of the atomic bomb.

Louis Pasteur

France- developed the process of pasteurization.

Jacques Cousteau

France-pioneer of the world’s oceans and inventor of SCUBA

Galileo

Italy- the first to use the telescope.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russia- created the periodic table.

 

Marie Curie

Poland- discovered Radium.

Alexander Fleming

Scotland-found mold that contained penicillin.

The Leakey Family of Paleoanthropologists

Kenya- A family of scientists having made some of the most important

 discoveries in paleoanthropology.

Wilhelm Roentgen

Germany-accidentally discovered x-rays.

 

Sigmund Freud

Austria-the father of psychology

 

Francis Crick

Great Britain- along with James Watson, discovered the structure of DNA

 

Sir Isaac Newton

Great Britain-described gravity

Margaret Mead

USA-first true social scientist

Jonas Salk

USA-polio

Charles Darwin

Great Britain-natural selection

Albert Einstein

Austria- big physics

Ernest Rutherford

Great Britain-described the interior of the atom

Jane Goodall

Great Britain-chimpanzees

Gregor Mendel

Austria-plant genetics

 

Michael Faraday

Great Britain-converted magnetism into electricity

 

Benjamin Franklin

USA- current electricity

Alexander Graham Bell

USA-telephone

Dian Fossey

USA-gorillas

Carl Sagan

USA-cosmos

Carrolus Linnaeus

Sweden-taxonomy

Stephen J. Gould

USA-Jurassic Park

Copernicus

Poland-heliocentric cosmology

 

Zhang Heng

China-seismograph

 

Euclid

Greece-geometry

 

Thomas Edison

USA- inventor of many things

Leonardo Da Vinci

Italy- artist, engineer & scientist

Archimedes

Greece- the founder of science

Neils Bohr

Denmark- the atom

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

France- the father of modern chemistry

Johannes Kepler

Germany- the motion of planets