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600 BCE
Thales And The Natural World
A Greek Philosopher named Thales, who lived around 600 B.C., has been called the "father of science" for his ideas about the natural world. He proposed that natural events such as earthquakes have natural world causes. Up until then people understood such events to be acts of gods or other supernatural forces. -
384 BCE
Aristotle And Empericism
In 384 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle made a very important contribution to science. Aristotle thought that the natural world could only come from observations of nature and inductive reasoning. He argued that knowledge of nature must be based on evidence and logic. This idea is called empiricism, and it is the basis of science today. -
700
Geber And The Scientific Method
During the 700's, a Persian scientist named Geber introduced the scientific method and experimentations in chemistry. His ideas and methods were later adopted by European chemists. Today Geber is known as the "father of chemistry'. -
1500
Copernicus And The Solar System
The revolution of science began when Copernicus made the first convincing argument that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of what we now call the solar system. -
Galileo And Astronomy
Around 1600, the Italian scientist Galileo greatly improved the telescope, which had just been invented, and made many important discoveries in the field of astronomy. Some of Galileo's observations provided additional evidence for Copernicus' sun centered soalr system. -
Marie Curie, Physics, And The Nobel Prize
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, and she won two of them! She won the 1903 Nobel prize for her physics for her discovery of radiation. She won the 1911 Nobel prize for her chemistry discovering in discovering the elements radium and polonuim. -
Albert Einstein
Another major shift in science occurred with the work of Albert Einstein. In 1916, Einstein published his general thoery of relativity. THis theory relates matter and energy. -
The Royal Knight, C.V. Raman
C.V. Raman was an Indian scientist who won the 1930 Nobel prize for physics. He made important discoveries about how light travels through transport materials. He was also made a knight of the British Empire for his work. -
Maria Goeppert - Mayer And Physics
Maria Goeppert - Mayer was a German born American scientist who won the 1963 Nobel prize for physics. She helped to develop a new model of the nucleus of the atom. She was just the second woman to win a Nobel prize for physics, after Marie Curie. -
Mario Molina And Ozone In The Atmosphere
Mario Molina is a Mexican born scientist who won the 1995 Nobel prize for chemistry. He helped to discover how the ozone layer in the atmosphere is being destroyed by pollution. He has also received more than 18 honorary degrees for his contributions and even has an asteriod named after him. -
Space X, Falcon Rocket Via Elon Musk
Elon Musk's aerospace company may be just as famous as his automobiles. Founded in 2002 to help reduce the cost of space transportation and enable the colonization of Mars, SpaceX's Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets are designed to be reusable. -
Ada E. Yonath And Cell Structures
Ada E. Yonath was a co - winner of the 2009 Nobel prize in chemistry. She made important discoveries about ribosomes, the structures in living cells, where proteins are made.
