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Eratosthenes measures the Earth's circumference and diameter.
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Galileo Galilei observes moons of Jupiter in support of the heliocentric model.
He was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa. Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and flautist who played a vital role in the scientific revolution. -
Laws of motion and gravity.
Isaac Newton, universally considered to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time, was an English mathematical and physicist, widely known for his outstanding contributions to physics, mathematics and optics. -
Conducts an experiment near the Scottish mountain of Schiehallion that attempts to measure the mean density of the Earth for the first time. Known as the Schiehallion experiment
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Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species showing that evolution occurs by natural selection
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Louis Pasteur became the inventor of a new process known as pasteurization which brought him more fame and recognition. He also developed vaccines for several diseases including rabies. Pasteur disproves the theory of spontaneous generation.
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In 1905, Einstein’s third paper was published. It was based on dynamics of bodies in motion which later was called as the theory of relativity.
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Konrad Z Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist. His exceptional work on animal behavior earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, which he shared with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch.
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Stephen Hawking is known for working also on Einstein’s theory of general relativity with quantum theory. He was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He is considered the most famous scientist alive today, and also a living legend for his amazing contributions to quantum physics.
