"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"- I am!

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  1. 3. Creator of a tool used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. (English, 1822-1884)
  2. 7. A fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became known when she was a child for her discoveries in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel . (English, 1799-1847)
  3. 10. A zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology for his research known today as acquired traits. (Austrian, 1903-1989)
  4. 12. Discovery of the most complete remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota on August 12, 1990, in the Cheyenne River Reservation. (American, 1949-)
  5. 13. A naturalist, geologist, and biologist who is best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection. (English, 1809-1882)
  6. 16. Observed that a mold, that happened to contaminate two of his uncovered petri dish, kills staphylococcus bacteria. He calls the mold penicillin. (Scottish, 1881-1955)
  7. 18. Designed small tools and developed techniques that are used in modern heart surgery, despite limited education due to racial prejudices. (American, 1910-1985)
  8. 20. Physician who devised a simple solution to re-hydrate cholera patients that involves a pinch of salt and a fistful of sugar in a ratio of water. (American, 1941-2024)
  9. 21. A chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to understanding the structure of DNA. (English, 1920-1958)
  10. 22. developed a process that uses heat to kill harmful bacteria in food and extend its shelf life. Pasteurization has made milk one of the safest foods in the world. It kills harmful bacteria that can cause diseases like tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and listeria. (French, 1822-1295)
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  1. 1. A polar explorer, meteorologist, climatologist, geophysicist, astronomer who formulated the continental drift hypothesis. He supported his theory with evidence from rocks and tropical plant fossils found in the Arctic.(German, 1880-1930)
  2. 2. Defied her family's wishes and instead trains nurses to care for soldiers of the Crimean war by providing clean bedding and better nutrition. (English, 1820-1910)
  3. 4. Horrified that he would only be remembered as the inventor of a technology that killed millions of people, dynamite, he established that prizes in the following categories be awarded every October: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, economics. (Swedish, 1833-1896)
  4. 5. Recorded data on over 28,000 pea plants over 8 years discovering the basic principles of heredity that laid the mathematical foundation for genetics. (Austrian)
  5. 6. Observed plant cells with a microscope and published a book of his illustrations. (English, 1635-1703)
  6. 8. Mapped over 2,000 cholera deaths in a small area of London, England and suspected that a water pump contaminated with diarrhea from a victim is the cause. Known as the first epidemiologist. (English, 1818-1858)
  7. 9. Molecular biologists, geneticist,s and zoologists who co-authored an academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. (American, 1928-2004 & English, 1916-2004 respectively)
  8. 11. First person to see and describe live, single-celled organisms, such as bacteria- some in his own saliva & mucus. (Dutch, 1632-1723)
  9. 14. Known as "The Science Guy". (American, 1955-)
  10. 15. Studied Alexis St. Martin, later known as the "guy with the hole in his stomach", to learn about stomach acid after St. Martin was accidentally shot in the stomach, leaving a opening that allowed this US army doctor to observe the digestive process directly. His experiments are noted to be momentous and also unethical. (American, 1785-1853)
  11. 17. Used sound wave data and her artistic skills to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor providing evidence of the theory of Continental Drift. (American, 1920-2006)
  12. 19. Observed that that people infected with cowpox were immune to deadly smallpox- He then scraped an 8-year-old boy and infects him with material collected from a cowpox sore on the hand of a milkmaid, creating the world's first successful vaccine. (English, 1749-1823)