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Scientist Timeline

  • Plato
    May 27, 1200

    Plato

    Born 428 BC
    Died 348 BC Greek Philosopher and mathmetician
    Formed the Academy
  • Aristotle
    May 28, 1250

    Aristotle

    Died 322 BC Essentially everything in science Incorrectly theorized the shape of our solar system one of the first recorded scientists in history tutored Alexander the Great
  • Hypatia
    May 28, 1350

    Hypatia

    Born 350 AD
    Died 415 AD Others contibutions to science have been based off her research Egyptian Never married was attacked by religious people first woman astronomer
  • Nicholas Copernicus
    May 28, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Died May 24, 1543 discovered the earth revolves around the sun was the foundation for space learning no family
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Died November 15 1630 Keplers law of planetary motion Invented and improved version of the telescope he is of German heritage had seven children went to three colleges
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Died March 31 1727
    Telescope discovered gravity 3 Laws of Motion he never married his dog caught his 20 yr research on fire.
  • Caroline Herschel

    Caroline Herschel

    Died January 9 1848 First women to discover a comet Helped her brother discover Uranus She never went to college Her brother taught her math and science. Had typhus and grew only to be 4’2’’ as an adult.
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday

    Died 1867 electromagnetic
    electric motor inventor,chemist and psychologist
  • Alfred Nobel

    Alfred Nobel

    Died December 10, 1896\ Dynamite Detonation cap Nobel Prize Did not go to public school. Always had a private tutor. Left his fortune as a prize for the Nobel Peace Prize Killed his brother and 3 other people in an experiment.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Died February 7, 1907 Designed the periodic table Discovered the first 60 elements youngest of fourteen kids His father was blind
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Died October 18 1931 Patented light bulb Phonograph Commercial Energy Direct Current (DC) Attended public school for only 12 weeks Newspaper boy Wife died of brain tumor made quadruple telegraph Was pretty much deaf his entire life He killed puppies for a “reason”
  • Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla

    Died January 7, 1943
    AC, Radar, Death Ray, Remote Control, and the Tesla Coil Worked with Thomas Edison and was rivals with him Lived in poverty July 10 = Tesla Day
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Died 1934 discovered radium and
    polonium Became a governess to pay for her tuition.
    graduated first in her class Won 2 Nobel Prizes
    first lady in poland to hold an important job.
  • Albert Einstien

    Albert Einstien

    Died April 18 1955 Mass-energy equivalence formula
    the refridgerator went to 4 universities had 2 wives and moved around Europe Has a doctors degree and a mathmatics degree won the nobel prize and was called the smartest man alive
  • Alfred Wegener

    Alfred Wegener

    Body Found November 2, 1930 Theorised continental drift Used balloons to track wind currents Heavy Smoker
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  • Dorothy Hodgkin

    Dorothy Hodgkin

    Died 1994 molecule structure with x-ray analysis first woman to win nobel prize in U.K. Started loving science during WWI was a tutor and professor
  • Richard Phillips Feynman

    Richard Phillips Feynman

    Died February 15 1988 Atomic Bomb Revolutionized Quantum Mechanics He wrote several books and journals
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin

    Died April 16 1958 Discovered the double helix (DNA) Discovered the A and B DNA Won the Nobel prize first university named after a women
  • Ted Fujita

    Ted Fujita

    Died November 19 1998 Fujita Scale Education from university of Tokyo studied bgb systems
  • Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin

    Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin

    went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology participated in the world’s first successful launch married 3 times was on dancing with the stars Apollo 11
  • Joanne Simpson

    Joanne Simpson

    Died March 4 2010 first woman to get a Phd in meteorology and become a meteorologist first female meteorologist became interested in weather since five years of age while sailing Cape Cod
  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking

    Still Alive went to 2 Universities Has 3 Kids and 3 Grand Kids Hawking Radiation The Study of Black Holes Astronomy and Physics Has Motor Neuron Disease
  • Hwang Woo-Suk

    Hwang Woo-Suk

    cloned multiple animals in 2004 claimed he had cloned human embryoes cloned an afgan dog named Snuppy