#3 Flashcards
(20 cards)
American astronomer developed a theory that the universe is always expanding due to recessional velocity
Edwin Hubble
Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician who said the planets revolved around the sun called Heliocentrism
Galileo Galilei
Scottish geologist introduced the principle that the Earth was shaped by natrual processes such as erosion and sedimentation
James Hutton
English zoologist spent 60 years in Tanzania studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
American physicist was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Shirley Ann Jackson
English physician debunked the belief that blood was produced by the liver and consumed by the organs.
William Harvey
German astronomer who was the first woman to discover a comet - discovered eight comets in total
Caroline Herschel
American polymath, scientist, and inventor who made significant impacts in meteorology and oceanography through his studies of the Gulf Stream
Benjamin Franklin
Greek physician and philosopher who believed that illness had a natural cause, not a supersitition or the wrath of the gods
Hippocrates
British chemist best known for work on X-ray diffraction techniques, able to capture photo of the helical structure of DNA
Rosalind Franklin
English polymath, physicist, astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect who conducted experiments with light and color, contributing to the wave theory of light
Robert Hooke
Italian and American physicist who was the creator of the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor
Enrico Fermi
French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician who worked on geometry, creating algebraic formulas to describe geometric figures
Rene Descartes
Scottish physician and microbiologist who discovered penicillin by accident
Alexander Fleming
British physicist and chemist who discovered benzene (a flammable liquid used in plastics, dyes, paint thinner, gasoline)
Michael Faraday
Greek mathematician who wrote a book about math that has been the most translated and published book outside of the Bible
Euclid
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer that is credited with putting the Greek letter of pi to the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter
Leonhard Euler
Polish-French physicist and chemist who discovered polonium and radium
Marie Curie
British geologist and biologist who developed the theory that humans descended from animals through a process called natural selection
Charles Darwin
English chemist and physicist who discovered that atoms of different elements combine to form compounds
John Dalton
