People Of Science

Question 1

Thomas Young

Answer 1

English, Polymath, Physics Double slit experiment

Question 2

James Clerk Maxwell

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Scottish physicist unifies magnetism and electricity light is a wave luminiferous aether

Question 3

Heinrich Hertz

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German Physicist Proved electromagnetic waves exists. Discovered the photoelectric effect

Question 4

Michelson and Morley

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testing light travels luminfereous if the light should change with the sun
disproves that idea, basis for future development for negativity

Question 5

max plank

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German physicist
blackbody radiations quantization of electromagnetic energy
Nobel prize 1918

Question 6

Henri Becquerel

Answer 6

French physicist engineer
radio activités expose photographic plate to potassium uranyl surface
determines beta particles

Question 7

Marie Curie

Answer 7

Polish Physics+Chemist
nobel proze 1903
discovered plutonium and radium
portable x rays WW1

Question 8

Aristole

Answer 8

student of plato
fundemanetals of bio physics astronomy geology
wrote physics
earth is center celestial sphered

Question 9

ptolemy

Answer 9

no perfect circle
limited my mathematical tools of the day

Question 10

AVICENNA

Answer 10

advancements in medicine first clinical trials

Question 11

leon focalt

Answer 11

rotates on axis
speed of light

Question 12

Edward Jenner

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1st successful vaccine
physician
cow pox into people for small pox

Question 13

Louis Pasteur

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biologist chemist
discovered chirality
rabies and anthrax vaccine
developed pasteurization
discovered spontaneous generations

Question 14

Friedrich Wholer

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synthesindrea fronoynate and ammonia
l

Question 15

Gregor Mendel

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monk
pea plants hereditary
ignored until 1900’s

Question 16

Charles Darwin

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Naturalist
natural selection
Galapagos islands
finches
new paradigm for biology

Question 17

Francis Bacon

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Father of scientific method

Question 18

Copernicus

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heliocentric
perserved circular orbits

Question 19

tycho brae

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geocentric model
discovered new stars
stellar parallel
tychonic system

Question 20

Johannes Kepler

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Elliptical Orbits of planets within tychonic systems

Question 21

Galileo Galilei

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observation of the phases of the Venus mountain on the moon jovial moon system

Question 22

James Watt

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steam driven engine incorporated rail roads and factories thermodynamics

Question 23

Thomas Newcomer

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fuel burning engine pumping water out of wells

Question 24

Isaac Newton

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Principa
Calculus
theory of light
Gravity Keplers of planetary motion

Question 25

Niels bohr

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physicist solar system model of the atom Rutherford nuclear Mosel and planks quantum theory old quantum theory

Question 26

Erwin Schrodinger

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physicist new quantum theory current quantum theory schodingers cat

Question 27

William Shockley

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Basis for modern electronics Essentially founded Silicon Valley bells lab

Question 28

Arthur Eddington

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astonemr physicist mathematician In 1919, captures images of the solar eclipse in Principe (west coast of Africa) and Sobral (Brazil)

Question 29

geroges Lemaitre

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physicist and priest big bang theory

Question 30

Edwin Hubble

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red shift of disnat objects frequency due to velocity universe is expanding

Question 31

Penzias and wilson

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physicist radio asrotnmer bell labs radio waves off balloons microwave

Question 32

Frederick GRIFFITH

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biologist Studied Pneumococci bacteria Rough and smooth forms Smooth was pathogenic, rough not Griffith’s Experiment Discovered a “transforming principle” in Pneumococci Changed non-virulent R into virulent

Question 33

Linus Pauling

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Chemist chemical bonds DNA triple helix structure metal ions inside stabilize structure

Question 34

Watson and crick

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Biologist Created a model of DNA based on double helix structure Confirmed by Wilkins & Franklin X-ray structures Nobel Prize 1962 with Wilkins Controversy today!

Question 35

Rosalind Franklin

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Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Worked under Randall and in collaboration with Maurice Wilkins Given DNA crystals for study Discovered two forms of DNA “wet” and “crystalline” She worked primarily with “crystalline”, Wilkins with “wet” Grad student Raymond Gosling takes Photo 51 in 1952

Question 36

Meselson and Stahl

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American, b.1930 (Meselson) American, b. 1929 (Stahl) Demonstrated “semiconservative replication” of DNA Each strand is used as a template for a new strand of DNA New strand has 1 old and 1 new strand Conservative replication would lead to a single strand used as a template Would have 1 helix of all old, 1 helix of all new

Question 37

Marshall Nirenberg

Answer 37

American Biologist, 1927-2010 NIH researcher With others, deciphered the genetic code Codon --> amino acid Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968