Famous Scientists

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  • Jan 1, 1000

    John Dalton

    John Dalton
    Discovered that atoms cannot be created, divided into small particles, or destroyed.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Didn't think there was an atom
    400 B.C.
  • Jan 1, 1131

    Omar Khayyam

    Omar Khayyam
    Created geometric algebra
    1048-1131

  • John Locke

    John Locke
    The first to define the self through a continuity of consciencness.

  • Antonie Lavoisier

    Antonie Lavoisier
    Determined that water results from the combination of the elements oxygen and hydrogen.
    1743-1794

  • William Crookes

    William Crookes
    Invented the cathode ray tube that is used in televisions

  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust
    Introduced glucose, Proust's Law, and disproved the law of definite proportions.

  • Democritus

    Democritus
    Democritis discovered the differeing properties of matter are due to size, sahpe, and movement in atoms.
    1766-1844

  • Amadeo Avagadro

    Amadeo Avagadro
    Contributed to the molecular theory and created Avagadro's Law.
    1776-1856

  • Justus von Liebig

    Justus von Liebig
    Discovered nitrogen as an essential nutrient to plants and created the beef boullon cube.
    1803-1873

  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie
    Discovered polonium and radium.

  • Henry Bessemer

    Henry Bessemer
    Created the Bessemer Process for the manufacturing of steel.
    1813-1898

  • Max Plank

    Max Plank
    Quantizied energy.

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    First to distinguish the four main blood groups.

  • Prafulla Chandra

    Prafulla Chandra
    Created India's first pharamcy and won the Nobel Prize in pharmaceuticals.

  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel
    Discovered radioactivity.

  • Ivan Povlov

    Ivan Povlov
    Won the Nobel Prize for physiology.

  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    Determined the charge of the atom.

  • Alfred Binet

    Alfred Binet
    Created the first usuable intelligence test also known as IQ.
    1857-1911

  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley
    Justification from physical laws of teh previous emprical chemical concept of the atom.
    1887-1915

  • Max Born

    Max Born
    Created quantum mechanics.

  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie
    Hidden thermodynamics, matter and wave, particle duality, non-nulity, and variability of mass.

  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger
    Created the quantum mechanical model of the atom.

  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    Awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for the creation of quantum physics.

  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    Showed that the nucleas also contained a nuetron.

  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    Postulated the nuclear structure of the atom.
    1871-1937

  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson
    Discovered the electron.
    1856-1940

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Developed the general theory of relativity effecting a revolution in physics.
    1879-1955

  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    Developed the concept of complementarity.
    1933-1962

  • Salim Ali

    Salim Ali
    Developed ornithology and was rewarded the second highest civillian honor.