Famous Scientists Project rei0014

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  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    Interesting Facts:
    1. He created The Scientific Method, which is still very commonly used today.
    2. He was a philosopher. At the time, philosophy included what we now call science.
  • Period: 370 BCE to 415 BCE

    Hypatia

    Interesting Facts:
    1. She was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and philosopher in Egypt
    2. She was the head of a school in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy (her birthdate is unknown)
  • Period: 287 BCE to 212 BCE

    Archimedes

    Interesting Facts:
    1. He discovered why some items float and some sink
    2. He invented many things, some which are still used today
  • Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Interesting Facts:
    1. He invented many things, most of which couldn't be created in his time but were made later on
    2. He is most famous for painting the Mona Lisa which is still on display in Paris.
  • Period: Feb 15, 1564 to

    Galileo Galilei

    Interesting Facts:
    1. He discovered that the planets in the solar system revolve around the sun and not earth.
    2. For this discovery, he received a lot of hate from the church in particular.
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    Isaac Newton

    Interesting Facts:
    1. He discovered a lot of things, including calculus.
    2. He discovered the theory gravity after an apple famously fell on his head.
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    Maria Sibylla Merian

    Interesting Facts:
    1. She was one of the first Scientists to use live insects in her experiments
    2. She was the first person to document the change a caterpillar takes to become a butterfly.
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    Emilie du Chatelet

    Interesting Facts:
    1. She was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and author.
    2. She translated a famous Isaac Newton book on the basic laws of physics into French.
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    Ada Lovelace

    Interesting Facts:
    1. She was a mathematician and a writer
    2. She did work on a concept computer
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    Marie Curie

    Interesting Facts:
    1. She was the first person (male or female) to win two Nobel Prizes
    2. She discovered two new radioactive elements.
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    Maria Goeppert Mayer

    Interesting Facts:
    1. She discovered that the protons and neutrons inside an atom are shaped in a shell shape
    2. She won a Nobel Prize.
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    Gertrude Elion

    Interesting Facts:
    1. She discovered many revolutionary drugs used in chemotherapy and organ transplants
    2. She won a Nobel prize in medicine for her groundbreaking discoverey
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    Rosalind Franklin

    Interesting Facts:
    1. She was a chemist and X-Ray crystallographer
    2. She made many discoveries about DNA and its molecular structure