Scientist timeline

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    First doctor to use quantitive and observation methods in his medical investigation during 1651
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    describes gravitation and the 3 laws of motion
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    discovered how electricity works.
  • Thomas Malthus

    Thomas Malthus

    Population growth and food supply for humans
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Found a cure for small pox
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    Surgeon who introduced new principles of cleanliness during the 1800s
  • Micheal Faraday

    Micheal Faraday

    Electromagnetism and electrochemistry
  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel

    First person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of living things
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Evolution and the process of natural selection
  • Florence Nightengale

    Florence Nightengale

    When Russia invaded turkey she made a lamp and made her rounds by the soldiers to help them
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton

    She was a doctor for the soldiers and she was the first women to receive a substantial clerkship in the federal government
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    he proved that all dyes could be classified as basic, acid, or nuetral
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Pasteur discovered a vaccine for chicken chlorea.
  • Robert koch

    Robert koch

    he created a cure for anthrax
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    radioactivity
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    He developed the model of an atom
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    discovered penicillin
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    he invented the oral, live polio vaccine in 1926
  • Dr. Charles Drew

    Dr. Charles Drew

    African American physician who developed ways to process and store blood plasma in blood banks
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Created a cure for influenze during WWII