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300 BCE
EUCLID
Alexandria. Geometrical theorems. (Maths) -
287 BCE
ARCHIMEDES
Ancient Greek.
Mathematician (Geometrical theorems)
Physicist (Archimedes' principle)
Engineer (Archimede's screw) -
400
HYPATIA
Alexandria.
Mathematics and Neoplatonism -
465
ZU CHONGZHI
Mathematician. (Volume of a sphere).
Astronomy (Daming calendar) -
500
THALES OF MILETUS
Mathematics/Astronomy -
Oct 2, 800
AL KWHARIZMI
Baghdad. One of the fathers of Algebra.
Established our number system -
Oct 2, 1490
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Geology, Anatomy, Astronomy, Gravity, Flight, Optics. Great inventor -
Oct 2, 1543
COPERNICUS
Heliocentric Theory
Book "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" -
GALILEO GALILEI
Scientific revolution. He proved and expanded heliocentric theory. Invention of telescope -
HUYGENS
Invention of the first accurate clock. Discovered Saturn's moon (Titan) -
LEEUWENHOEK
Discovered the world of microscopic life (bacteria, protozoa, human sperm, blood cells..) -
NEWTON
Discovered Gravity. Three laws of motion.
Book "Phiolosophiae naturalis. Principia mathematica" -
HUTTON
Father of modern Geology. -
LAPLACE
Invetigation about the stability of Solar System. -
JOHN DALTON
Father of Chemistry. Established modern theory of atoms -
DARWIN
Evolution theory based on natural selection -
PASTEUR
Discovered vaccination (rabies, anthrax, chickenpox) and developed the sterilisation method -
MENDEL
Foundation of modern science of genetics -
MARIE CURIE
Work with radioactivity. NP Physics 1905 -
A. WEGENER
Developed the theory of the continental drift. -
MAX PLANCK
Physicist. Proposed Quantum theory (NP) -
EINSTEIN
Developed the special and general theories of relativity.
NP 1921 -
NIELS BOHR
Atomic structures (protons, neutrons, electrons)
NP 1922 -
HUBBLE
Discovered the Milky Way galaxy. Theories about the Universe expansion -
GEORGES LAMAITRE
Father of the Big Bang Theory which explains the origin of the Universe. -
WARNER HEISENBERG
Laid the foundation of a new branch of Physics (Quantum mechanics) NP 1932 -
WATSON AND CRICK
Discovered the DNA structure = a double helix shape
The Genetic Revolution started. -
STEPHEN HAWKING
Astronomer.
He is well known by his studies about black holes, the Big Bang and Quantum Physics