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Democritus 460-370 BC
Democritus studied many things like the the human body, sensens, and ethical percepts. He was very interested in the human soul and body so he wanted to learn how it worked. -
400
Empedocles (495-435 BCE)
Empedocles was a Greek philosopher that came up with the idea of elements. However, he only thought there was four (earth, fire, water and air), not the 90 that we have today. -
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Plato 4th century
Plato was a student of Aristotle, but he was influenced by Socrates. Plato mostly studied ethics, political philosophy, moral philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics into an interconnected and systematic philosophy. -
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Leucippus
Another Greek Philosopher that no one knows when he was born or when he died. He worked closely with Democritus, who ended up taking all the fame from him. They invented Atomism, which postulated its plurality (atoms) and motion, which explained the reality of not-Being (the void) in which his atoms moved. -
Oct 1, 1330
Bubonic Plauge Black Plague/ The Black Death
The Black Plauge started spreading throughout China and killed about 25 million people. It was when poeple got swollen lymph nodes in their armpits or groin that they were considered to have the Bubonic Plague. -
The Irish Famine
It's similar to The Great Famine of the 1840's, but it was in the Kingdom of Ireland. It was caused by a part by a fungal infection in the potato crop. -
John Dalton 1766-1844
John was an English chemist, meterologist, and physicist, He's best known for research on the stomic therory and color blindness, which is also known as Daltonism in his honor. -
Robert A. Millikan
Robert recieved his mastership in physics in 1893 and was also appointed Fellow in Physics at Columbia University. His discoveries constituted of chiefly in the fields of electricity, optics, and molecular physics. -
Max Planck
Max was the originator of the quantom theory, which revolutionized the human understanding of atomic and subatomic particles. -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest was a chemist and physicist, who is well known for nuclear physics. In 1908 he was awarded the Nobel Piece Prize for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements. -
Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin was an Austrian Physicist who developed a lot of the fundamental results of the quantum theory. He had many works in different theories such as statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, physics of dielectrics, color theory, electrodynamics, general relativity and cosmology. -
Niels Bohr
Niels was known for his theoretical analysis of and precise experiments on the vibrations of water jets as a way of determining surface tension, which helped him win a goold medal. -
James Chadwick
James discovered the neutron in 1932 which solved the puzzle for the weight of atoms. In 1935 he recievedd the Nobel Piece Prize for physics. -
Louis de Broglie
Louis was a French Physicist and was elected the first seat in 1944 to the Académie française. He also served as the Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des sciences. -
Werner Heisenberg
Werner was a German theoretical physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Piece prize in 1932 for physics. He contributed in many theories like hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles, -
Titanic
The Titanic was the biggest boat of its time and it set sail full of Britans, poor and rich. It sank in April 15th 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing more than 1,500 people. -
World War One
World War One was also known as the Great War. It was faught in Europe because of the imperialistic foreign policies of the great powers of Europe. Over 9 million troopers were killed. It ended on November 11, 1918. -
World War Two
Worl War two was starte dbecause of Hitler and the Nazi army. 45-60 million people were killed during this war. It is now know as the Holocaust, but it was called Hitler's Final Solution. -
Lonnie Thompson
Lonnie has global recognition for his drilling and analysis of ice caps and glaciers. He is also a Paleoclimatologist and a Professor in the school of Earth Sciences in Ohio. -
Aristotle 384-322 BCE
Aristotle was a student of Plato and was a great figure of ancient Greek philosophy. He had many contributions to studying logic, mathmatics, dance, theatre, medicine, and lots of other things.
