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| Galileo Galilei (Italy 1564-1642) |
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-proposed the scientific method
-made a very improved telescope
-proposed that the planets revolve around the sun |
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| Alfred Nobel (Sweden 1833-1896) |
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-discovered the dynamite
-founder of the nobel prize |
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| Isaac Asimov (Russia 1920-1992) |
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| great writer of science fiction books like Nightfall, Foundation (3 book series) and novels like Caves of Steel |
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| Archimedes (287-212 BC, Greece) |
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-great mathematician, calculated the value of pi
-principle of floating and sinking
-invented many war machines |
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| Lord Kelvin (Ireland 1824-1907)) |
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-developed the absolute scale of temperature
-developed the basic theory of electromagnetic theory of light |
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| Alexander Bell (USA 1847-1922) |
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-invented the telephone
-established one of the greatest science research institutes in the USA |
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| in 1938, he discovered Teflon which is used to coat cooking pans because of its non-stick properties |
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| wrote the first computer programming language in English. it is called COBOL |
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| Dmitri Mendeleev (Siberia 1834-1907) |
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| arranged the then known 63 elements into a periodic table. he also predicted some missing elements from the table |
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| Henry Moseley (1887-1915) |
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| arranged elements according to atomic #, not mass |
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| discovered elements after uranium. also rearranged elements, placing actinides and lanthanides |
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| Benjamin Franklin (USA 1706-1790) |
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| discovered that lightning is actually electricity and suggested using a lightning rod for tall buildings |
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| Lavoisier (Paris 1745-1794) |
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| found the law of conservation of mass |
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| added sulfur into rubber to reinforce car tires |
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| received the nobel prize for discovering radioactivitity |
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| in 1953 they found that the structure of DNA is a double helix |
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