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Famous Dead Guy

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    Thales - 600 BC

    Known as the first Scientist
  • 101

    Democritus - 400 BC

    The father of modern science. He discovered the atom.
  • 101

    Aristotle - 400 BC

    Thought that everything was made of the four elements, air, fire, earth, and water. He was wrong.
  • Sir Isaac Newton - 1670

    Discovered gravity, laws of motion, and the light spectrum.
  • John Dalton - 1807

    DIscovered the atomic theory. Matter is atoms, indivisible, and indestructable.
  • Antoine Henri Becquerel - 1896

    Discovered radioactivity.
  • JJ Thompson - 1897

    Discovered the electron.
  • Robert Millikan - 1909

    Found mass charge of electrons
  • Rutherford - 1911

    Gold Foil Experiment, discovered nucleus.
  • Niels Bohr - 1913

    Discovered how electrons travel around the nucleus.
  • Francis Aston - 1919

    Mass spectrograph
  • Erwin Schrodinger - 1926

    Schroedinger's model