Scientist Timeline

  • Jun 4, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Discovered the Earth revolves around the sun.
  • Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Improved the telescope.
  • Issac Newton

    Discovered gravity and the three laws of motion.
  • Caroline Herschel

    First woman to discover a comet.
  • Michael Faraday

    Electric Motor
  • Alfred Nobel

    Created Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Designed the Periodic Table.
  • Thomas Edison

    Patented lightbulb.
  • Nikola Tesla

    Was in poverty for most of his life. Worked for Thomas Edison and they eventuslly became rivals. Contributed to the Alternating Curretn (AC), Radar, Remote Control, Tesla Coil, and the Death Ray. July 10=Tesla Day.
  • Marie Curie

    Discovered Radium and Polonium.
  • Albert Einstein

    Was known as the smartest man in the world. Created the Refrigerator and the Mass-Energy Equivalence Formula.
  • Alfred Wegner

    Theorised Continential Drift.
  • Dorothy Hodgkin

    First woman to get a Nobel Peace Prize in the UK.
  • Richard Phillips Feyman

    Atomic Bomb
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Discovered double helix.
  • Ted Fujita

    Fujita Scale
  • Edwin Aldrin

    ON the Apollo 11 Mission.
  • Joanne Simpson

    First Female Meteorologist
  • Stephen Hawking

    He had Motor Neuron Disease and discovered the Hawking Radiation Theory.
  • Hwang Woo-Suk

    Cloned animals.
  • Hypatia

    Many contributions in science have been made because of her.
  • Aristotle

    Theorized our Solar System.
  • Plato

    Greek philospher and mathematican.