2014 Scientist Timeline

  • Hypatia
    340

    Hypatia

    One of the first females involved in math and science
  • Nicholas Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Proved the Earth wasn't the center of the universe.
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Created laws of planetary motion
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Created his 3 laws, astronomy and calculus. Aso, he defined gravity.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Created the lightning rod to capture electricity
  • Benjamin Banneker

    Benjamin Banneker

    Made America's first fully functional clock
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Assisted in creating the Atomic Theory
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday

    Contributed to research or electromagnetisism
  • Christian Doppler

    Christian Doppler

    Discovered the Doppler Effect
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Theory of evolution and natural selection
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    Advanced sanitary conditions in military hospitals
  • Albert Nobel

    Albert Nobel

    355 patents and established the Nobel prize
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Created periodic table
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Improved upon the electric lightbulb
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Discovered radium and radio-activity
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Created E=mc^2, Thoery of Relativity
  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling

    Discovered the Nature of chemical bonds.
  • Wernher Von Braun

    Wernher Von Braun

    Drector of NASA rocketry program
  • Crick

    Crick

    Discoverd DNA
  • Wilkins

    Wilkins

    Discovered DNA
  • Dorothy Hodgkin

    Dorothy Hodgkin

    Created pennicillin and the B12 vitamin, worked with x-rays
  • Ted Fujita

    Ted Fujita

    Created Fujita scale to categorize tornadoes
  • Watson

    Watson

    Discovered DNA
  • Peter Higgs

    Peter Higgs

    Discovered the Higgs Boson
  • Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall

    Very involved zoologist with primates.
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    Created of Greenouse Effect Theory
  • Hwang Woo-Su

    Hwang Woo-Su

    He successfully cloned a dog in 2004
  • Steven Jobs

    Steven Jobs

    Created the first Mac computer
  • Mae Jemison

    Mae Jemison

    First african american in space. She studied bone cells in space.
  • Brian Greene

    Brian Greene

    Helped with the popularity of the spring theory
  • Aristotle

    Aristotle

    The orginal astronomer