Famous Scientists
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- 5. Rose from a life of misery and labor to be the foremost expert on optical glass in Bavaria, and the world.
- 9. Despite being struck by ALS, lived a very productive life making numerous discoveries in astrophysics
- 10. Created the process for sanitizing food by boiling them and keeping them sealed in a container.
- 11. Discovered radium and died of radiation poisoning.
- 12. Russian creator of the current model of the periodic table of elements.
- 14. Gifted computer scientist who helped break the German Enigma code.
- 15. Had many major discoveries including his famous 3 laws of motion.
- 17. Famously attempted to begin at the most basic truths stating "Cogito Ergo Sum" (I think therefore I am).
- 18. Dealt with his guilt for inventing dynamite by creating awards for excellence in many fields, including peace.
- 19. Took the photo using X-ray crystallography that would eventually prove the shape of DNA.
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- 1. Famous actress who invented the frequency hopping technology that would eventually be used for bluetooth.
- 2. Chemist who made amazing discovered in the spectra of light emitted from heated chemicals but is most well known for his burner.
- 3. Invented the first AC generator, considered an unstable but very clever scientist.
- 4. Used pea plants to discover his laws of inheritance via genetics.
- 5. Made massive discoveries in electromagnetic theory and essentially invented the electric motor.
- 6. Winner of the 1922 Nobel prize in physics for his model of the atom.
- 7. Greek scientist and mathematician who famously shouted "Eureka" in the tub upon making a discovery.
- 8. Credited with the discovery of antibiotics.
- 13. Won Nobel prize for discovery of photoelectric effect.
- 16. Published first work on evolution by natural selection entitled "The Origin of Species"