sintest timeline

By jarett1234
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    Hypatia

    born:350-370 AD
    Died:415 AD
    -never married
    -devoted life to studies.
    -killed by christian group that stripped and disassembled her with broken pottery and burned her.
  • Jan 1, 1287

    Archimedes

    Born: 287 B.C. (in Syracuse, Italy)
    Died:212 B.C.
    is known for Archimedes principle
    - invented the water screw, pulley, and war machines
    -discovered water displacement/ ran through the streets naked after discovery. left italy for studies and went to egypt
    -born in Italy
    - unknown for anything
    about his personal life
    -discovered this while he was in the bathtub and got really excited and was told through the streets naked
  • Jan 1, 1428

    Plato

    Born:428 B.C
    Died:328 B.C.
    -father of idealism in philosophy.
    Greek philosopher
    -went to the academy athens
    -founded a philosophical school

  • Benjamin Banneker

    Born:November 9, 1731
    Died: October 9,1806
    (Age 74)
    -Predicted Lunar and Solar eclipses
    - Was an astronomer
    - farmer and astronomer
    -learned astronomy
    - learned how to predict solar and lunar eclipses
    - Predicted his own death at age 70 but lived 4 years later.

  • John Dalton

    1766-1844; born in Eaglesfield, England
    -Eventually became a chemist; started as a meteorologist; -was the first scientist to say everything in the universe is made up of microscopic atoms
    -they(him and his brother) were color blind and he figured out it was genetic; -color blind is genetic;

    not being able to see red or green is called daltonism;
    he is color blind

  • Charles Darwin

    born:February 12, 1809
    died: 1882 -Founded theory of evolution
    -Darwin’s Finches
    -studied mostly on galapagos islands -naturalist and geologist
    -Was a naturalist and a geologist
    majored/studied in the medical field

  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel
    Born: July 20, 1822
    Died: January 6, 1884
    -Discovered the principles of heredity(mental and physical traits are passed genetically)
    -Botanist
    - Father of modern genetics
    -was a monk
    -went to the university vienna
    -The father of genetics
    - Never had a spouse or children
    - Used pea plants to study hereditary
    - died of kidney inflammation

  • Florence Bascom

    born:July 14,1862
    died:june 18,1945
    was a geologist

    - was considered pioneer in women's rights and helped lead the way for other women -lived to be 83 years old
    went to university of w -youngest out of 6 kid
    -and went john hawkins university
    -never got married and never had children
    -interest in geology was from her father

  • Albert Einstein

    Born: March 14, 1879
    Died: April 18, 1955
    - E=mc squared
    -theory of relativity
    -photoelectric theory -Went to ETH Zurich
    -Went to University of Zurich
    -He was a slow learner
    -He had a really big head as a child

  • Niels Bohr

    Born: October 7, 1885
    Died: November 18, 1962
    -created a picture of the atomic structure
    - Bohr’s liquid droplet theory
    -received his master degree -had 6 children and was married

  • Percy Lavon Julian

    Born-April 11,1899
    Died-April 19, 1975
    Developed a drug that helped treat glaucoma
    Taught college chemistry
    -Developed aerofoam (fire extinguisher) that is used by the Navy
    -cause of death was liver cancer -Oldest of six other siblings
    -graduated from Depauw,Harvard and University of Vienna -he was called the soybean chemist

  • Robert Oppenheimer

    Born:1904 22 in New York
    Died: 1967 18 in New Jersey
    helped create the atomic bomb
    part of the manhattan project
    -graduated from university of Gottingen
    -married Katherine Puening
    studied biology

  • Neil Armstrong

    born:August 5th 1930
    Died:August 25, 2012
    masters in aerospace
    he was a pilot for the gemini 8 mission
    - left a legacy and played a major role in the space knowledge was an eagle scout- flew combat missions

    - Had a developed interest in flight he has two sons

  • James E west

    Born:1931 in Virginia
    Died:still alive
    -invented the microphone

    -developed the electro-acoustics
    -Attended Temple University
    -experienced racism
    -Married Matilda
    - He had 4 children

  • Jane Goodall

    born:April 3, 1934
    died: still alive
    - Her contribution she learned how they interacted with each other
    -Founded Jane Goodall institute
    - studied by seeing how they reacted with each other for over 45 years
    -Won benjamin franklin medal

  • Stephen Hawking

    Born:January 8 1942
    Died: still living
    - Black hole theory- Matter in the form of radiation can escape the gravitational force of a collapsed star.
    -Studied physics and astronomy
    -St Albans School
    -oldest of 4 -born 300 years after galileo's death