Nationalities of Scientists Flashcards

(35 cards)

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Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

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English

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Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)

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Swiss

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Gottfried von Leibniz (1646-1716)

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German

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Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

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German

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Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

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English

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Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040)

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Arabic

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

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Italian

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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

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Serbian-American

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Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934)

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Polish (later French)

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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German-born

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Euclid (335-265BC)

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Greek

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12
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

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French

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13
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Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

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German

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14
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Liu Hui (225-295AD)

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Chinese

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15
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Max Planck (1858-1947)

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German

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Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857)

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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980 - 1037)

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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)

20
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Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907)

21
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Robert Koch (1843 - 1910)

22
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Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937)

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New Zealander

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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 -1543)

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Georg Bernhard Riemann (1826 - 1866)

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Zhang Heng (78 - 139 AD)
Chinese
26
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
French
27
Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (780 - 850 AD)
Persian
28
Jules Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
French
29
Aby Rayhan Al-Biruni
Iranian
30
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859)
British
31
Claudius Galen (129 -216 AD)
Greek
32
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813)
French-Italian
33
Qin Jiushao (1208 - 1261)
Chinese
34
Paul Ehrlich (1854 - 1915)
German
35
Archimedes (287 - 212 BC)
Greek