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First Name |
Last Name |
Field of Study |
Discovery notes |
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Amphere |
physicist |
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Elizabeth |
Anderson |
medicine |
first women physician in England |
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Archimedes |
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water pressure & displacement |
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Neil |
Armstrong |
astronaut |
first human on moon |
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Isaac |
Asimov |
author |
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John J. |
Audubon |
artist naturalist |
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Jacqueline |
Auriol |
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Avicenna |
medicine |
Wrote an encyclopedia on medicine in Iran |
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Charles |
Babbage |
programmer |
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Benjamin |
Banneker |
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Clara |
Barton |
nurse |
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Florence |
Bascom |
geologist |
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Alexander Graham |
Bell |
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Telephone |
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Karl |
Benz |
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Automobile |
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Neils |
Bohr |
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Rachel |
Brown |
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Bunsen |
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Luther |
Burbank |
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Chester |
Carlson |
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Photocopier |
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Carpenter Electric Co. |
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Electric stove & electric kettle |
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Rachel |
Carson |
author marine biologist |
Silent Spring |
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Jewel |
Cobb |
biologist |
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Nicholas |
Copernicus |
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Jacques Yves |
Cousteau |
oceanographer |
SCUBA self contained underwater breathing apperatus |
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Marie |
Curie |
physicist |
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Leo |
Daft & Charlse Van DePoele |
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Electric street car |
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Charles |
Darwin |
biologist |
Theory of evolution, natural selection, Origin of the Species 1859. |
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Diesel |
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Engine |
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Charles |
Drew |
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Thomas Alva |
Edison |
inventor |
Electric light bulb, motor driven phonograph |
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Albert |
Einstein |
physicist |
theory of relativity E=mc2 |
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GertrudeB. |
Elion |
pharmacologist |
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Gladys |
Emerson |
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Fahrenheit |
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Michael |
Faraday |
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Fermi |
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Alva |
Fisher |
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Electric washing machine |
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Enrico |
Fleming |
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Henry |
Ford |
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assembly line |
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Dian |
Fossey |
primatologist |
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Benjamin |
Franklin |
statesman scientist author |
electricity flow and charges |
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Galileo |
Galilei |
astronomer |
telescope to verify planets and sun as center of the universe gravity experiments scientific theory |
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Manuel |
Garcia |
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Invented the larynogoscope in Spain |
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Lillian Moller |
Gilbreth |
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John |
Glenn |
astronaut |
first American to orbit earth |
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Jane |
Goodall |
zoologist |
studied wild chimpanzees |
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Charles |
Goodyear |
chemist |
vulcanized rubber |
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Temple |
Grandin |
Animal science CSU inventor livestock handling; interviewed many TV programs |
visual thinker, highly sensitive to sound, autistic |
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Stephen |
Hawking |
British physicist |
unified theory; inflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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Olive C. |
Hazlett |
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Hoover Co. |
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Electric Vacuum |
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Grace Murray |
Hopper |
mathematician |
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David E. |
Hughes |
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Printing telegraph |
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Michiko |
Ishimura |
medicine |
Japanese woman who examined the effects of heavy metal poisoning |
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Shirley |
Jackson |
theoretical physicist |
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Thomas |
Jefferson |
President, farmer, inventor |
Macaroni and Cheese plow, |
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Edward |
Jenner |
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Steve |
Jobs and Steve Wozniak |
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Personal computer |
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Annie |
Jump Cannon |
astronomer |
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Ernest |
Just |
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Kelvin |
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Johann |
Kepler |
astronomer |
Kepler's law |
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Reatha Clark |
King |
chemist |
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Harry |
Lang |
research on deaf scientists, author more than 50 scholarly works |
profoundly deaf |
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Rita |
Levi-Montalcini |
biologist |
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John |
Logie Baird |
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Black and white TV |
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Arnold |
Maloney |
medicine |
A Trinidadian who examined antidotes for barbituate poisoning |
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Marconi |
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Maria |
Mayer |
nuclear physicist |
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Barbara |
McClintock |
geneticist |
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McGraw Electric Company |
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Pop up toaster |
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Sylvia |
Mead |
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Margret |
Mead |
anthropologist |
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Lillie |
Minoka-Hill |
nutritionist |
Native American who carried out nutrition research |
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Maria |
Mitchell |
astronomer |
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Garrett |
Morgan |
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John |
Muir |
naturalist |
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Isaac |
Newton |
mathematician scientist |
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Constance |
Noguchi |
physical biochemist |
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Onesimus |
virolugist |
A slave in Africa who discovered the inoculation for smallpox |
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Edna |
Paisano |
statistician |
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Louis |
Pasteur |
biology |
Pasteur |
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Gertrude |
Perlmann |
nutritionist |
Czechoslovakian worked on protein chemistry |
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Susan |
Picotte |
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Racine Universal Motor Company |
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Electric Hair Dryer |
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Lisa Randall |
Theoretical Physicist Professor of Physics at Harvard University Vitae
Author Warped Passages - we inhabit a three-dimensional bubble in a universe of 10 or more spatial dimensions.
Sometime in 2007 the Large Hadron Collider will come online with hopes of glimpsing into another spatial dimension. |
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Judith |
Resnik |
astronaut |
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Sally |
Ride |
astronaut |
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Leon |
Roddy |
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Daniel |
Rutherford |
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Carl |
Sagan |
astronomer author |
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Jonas |
Salk |
medical researcher |
polio vaceen |
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Berta |
Scharrer |
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German women invented neuroendocribology |
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George |
Schmidt & Fred Isius |
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Electric food mixer |
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Henry W. |
Seely |
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Electric Iron |
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Christopher |
Sholes |
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Typewriter |
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Singer Company |
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Electric sewing machine |
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John |
Snow |
Father of modern epidemiology - London 1850's John persisted in determining how cholera was spread. By plotting his data on a map of London his conclusions and methods of study are historical. see links for his story, London's story, and other interesting stories. --------> great public works story |
Cholera public health epidemiology anesthesiology statistical mapping science process history of science science inquiry |
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Percy LeBaron |
Spencer |
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Microwave oven |
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Nikola |
Tasla |
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Electric Motor |
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Edward |
Teller |
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Valentina |
Tereshkova |
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Ellen Swallow |
Tichards |
chemist |
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Evangelista |
Torricelli |
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air pressure |
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Charles |
Turner |
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Anthony |
Van Leeuwenhoek |
biology |
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Balzer |
van Platen & Carl Munaters |
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Electric Refrigerator |
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Pierre |
Verdon |
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Food processor |
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Gerett |
Vermeij |
evolutionary biology and paleontology U Cal-Davis |
blind biologist, evolutionary marine biology |
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Volta |
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George |
Washington Carver |
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James |
Watt |
physicist |
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George |
Westinghouse |
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Elevator disc breaks |
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Anna Pell |
Wheeler |
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Robert |
Whitehead |
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Daniel |
Williams |
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Friedrich |
Wohler |
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Granville |
Woods |
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Chien-Shiung |
Wu or Chin Shiun Wu |
nuclear physicist |
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Rosalyn |
Yalow |
nuclear physcist |
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Zeppelin |
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