2014 Scientist Timeline

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    Hypatia

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

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Nicholas Copernicus
    Proved the Earth wasn't the center of the universe.
  • Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    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