Science report 2017

By DAV0037
  • Archimedes
    287

    Archimedes

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in Syracuse, Sicily
    2.His father, Phidias, was an astronomer
  • Aristotle
    384

    Aristotle

    Fun Fact
    1.Born in Stagira, Chalcide
    2.Aristotle was sent to Athens by his father when he was 17 years old to pursue a higher education
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in Anchiano, Tuscany
    2.He was the first person to explain why the sky is blue
  • Galileo
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in Pisa, Italy
    2.The middle finger of his right hand is displayed in a museum in Italy
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in Woolsthorpe, England
    2.Isaac Newton's father was named Isaac Newton as well
  • Maria Sibylla Merian

    Maria Sibylla Merian

    1.Born in Frankfurt, Germany
    2.Her father died when she was just three years old, her uncle then took care of her
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in The Mount, Shrewsbury
    2.He married his first cousin Emma Darwin
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in Milan, Ohio
    2.He had scarlet fever as a child
  • Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in Smiljan (now Croatia)
    2.He had a photographic memory
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in Warsaw, Poland
    2.She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win two
  • Maria Goeppert Mayer

    Maria Goeppert Mayer

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in Kattowitz (now Katowice), Germany (now Poland)
    2.The Crater Goeppart Mayer on Venus is names after her
  • Gertrude Elion

    Gertrude Elion

    Fun Facts
    1.Born in New York City, New York
    2.She received many awards including the Garvan-Olin Medal (received in 1968), the National Medal of Science (1991) and Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
  • Stephen hawking

    Stephen hawking

    Fun Facts
    1.He has received many awards none of which are a Nobel Prize
    2.One of his main achievements was coming up with the theory that the universe has no boundaries