Flashcards
Scientist Flashcards
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- 1Who invented the seismometer machine, which could sense distant earthquakes and indicted which direction they were happening?Zhang Heng
- 2Who correctly recognized that the moon was not a light source but reflected the sun's light?Zhang Heng
- 3Who wrote the finest poetry of his age?Zhang Heng
- 4Who worked out how to use a bath of water to test whether a crown was made of pure gold?Archimedes
- 5Who explained how levers work, and who devised machines to repel invading Roman Ships?Archimedes
- 6Who was in the bath when they solved the problem of the golden crown? Then jumped out and shouted, "Eureka!"?Archimedes
- 7Who wrote the book of Optics?Ibn al-Haytham
- 8Who carried out essential experiments on lights and how eyes work?Ibn al-Haytham
- 9Who told the Caliph of Egypt that he could stop the Nile Flooding-an impossible task?Ibn al-Haytham
- 10Who made plans for machines including a submarine, an armed tank, a helicopter, and a wing-flapping Aircraft?Leonardo da Vinci
- 11Who was very secretive and wrote most of their notes in mirror writing?Leonardo da Vinci
- 12Who painted the Last Supper and Mona Lisa?Leonardo da Vinci
- 13Who developed the idea of a Heliocentric Universe?Nicolaus Copernicus
- 14Who wrote the book called De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium?Nicolaus Copernicus
- 15Who worked in a huge variety of roles, including Judge, Doctor, Military Commander, and Translator?Nicolaus Copernicus
- 16Who was the first to challenge the theories of ancient philosophers and test all his ideas by experiment?Galileo Galilei
- 17Who invented the first astronomical telescope?Galileo Galilei
- 18Who discovered the four largest moos of Jupiter?Galileo Galilei
- 19Who published a book called the Skeptical Chymist?Robert Boyle
- 20Who performed experiments on air pressure?Robert Boyle
- 21Who was a founding member of the Royal Security Society, a vital science organization in the United Kingdom?Robert Boyle
- 22Who worked out how gravity works?Isaac Newton
- 23Who discovered how the colors of a rainbows are formed?Isaac Newton
- 24Who wrote the book "Principia Mathematic."Isaac Newton
- 25Who invented a temperature scale, which later became known as the Fahrenheit?Daniel Fahrenheit
- 26Who invented a thermometer that used Mercury?Daniel Fahrenheit
- 27Who's life span was from 1686-1730?Daniel Fahrenheit
- 28Who's life span was from 1701-1744?Anders Celsius
- 29Who created a temperature scale, divided into small parts called degrees?Anders Celsius
- 30Who set the point at which water freezes at 100 degrees Celsius and at which it boils at 0 degrees Celsius?Anders Celsius
- 31Who invented many things, such as bifocal spectacles, a heat efficient stove, fins for swimming, and a musical instrument called a Glass Armonia?Benjamin Franklin
- 32Who invented the lightning rod?Benjamin Franklin
- 33Who had flown a kite during a thunderstorm to attract lightning and proved that it was a form of electricity?Benjamin Franklin
- 34Who came up with the method of classifying living things by grouping?Carl Linnaeus
- 35Who gave the scientific name Homo Sapiens to humans?Carl Linnaeus
- 36Who earned his medical degree in just six days?Carl Linnaeus
- 37Who introduced new rules about how to conduct experiments properly in chemistry?Antoine Lavoisier
- 38Who named the gases oxygen and hydrogen and showed how important oxygen is to a combustion?Antoine Lavoisier
- 39Who wrote the first list of elements and helped set up the metric system in France?Antoine Lavoisier
- 40Who found a marine reptile that swam in the times of dinosaurs and was later named CHTHYOSAURUS?Mary Anning
- 41Who found the first plesiosaur and first pterosaur?Mary Anning
- 42Who was not taken seriously because she was a woman from a poor background, which most scientists of the time were Men from wealthy families?Mary Anning
- 43Who showed how animals can change over generations to form new species a process called evolution?Charles Darwin
- 44Who visited Golapogas island in the Pacific Ocean, and there they observed lots of different species of animals?Charles Darwin
- 45Who developed the theory of evolution?Charles Darwin
- 46Whose work helped in the development of computers?Ada Lovelace
- 47Who made the first computer program for the analytical engine?Ada Lovelace
- 48Who was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Kyron?Ada Lovelace
- 49Who examined more than 29,000 pea plants?Gregor Mendel
- 50Who set rules for how parent plants pass on their features to their children?Gregor Mendel
- 51Who was an Australian monk and Botanist?Gregor Mendel
- 52Who worked on vaccinations to stop people from getting ill?Louis Pasteur
- 53Who confirmed the germ theory of disease?Louis Pasteur
- 54Who discovered that beer, wine, and milk go sour because of bacteria growing on them?Louis Pasteur
- 55Who calculated that -459 degrees Fahrenheit is the lowest possible temperature in the universe, also known as absolute zero?Lord Kelvin
- 56What title was given to the Scottish physicist and engineer William Thomason?Lord Kelvin
- 57Whose lifespan was from 1824 through 1904?Lord Kelvin
- 58Who patented the first telephone?Alexander Graham Bell
- 59Who gave music lessons and studied how vibrating objects make sounds?Alexander Graham Bell
- 60Who invented a type of electric Telegraph that sent signals as musical notes?Alexander Graham Bell
- 61Who invented the automatic repeater which helped to transmit Telegraph signals?Thomas Edison
- 62Who came up with the systems for electrical life throughout cities?Thomas Edison
- 63Who held the world record of 1,093 US patents?Thomas Edison
- 64Who discovered that electrical machines work better using alternating current?Nikola Tesla
- 65Whose lifespan was from 1856 to 1943?Nikola Tesla
- 66Who worked on electrical and radio technology?Nikola Tesla
- 67Who won praise for his contributions to agricultural chemistry?George Washington Carver
- 68Who experimented to find new uses for plants?George Washington Carver
- 69Who researched and promoted alternative crops to cottons, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes?George Washington Carver
- 70Who studied the rays given off by the newly discovered element uranium, which they named radioactivity?Marie Curie
- 71Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?Marie Curie
- 72Who was the first to be awarded 2 Nobel prizes in different sciences?Marie Curie
- 73Who wrote four scientific papers which revolutionized physics?Albert Einstein
- 74Who's theory shows that matter can be turned into energy and back?Albert Einstein
- 75How was awarded Nobel Prize in physics for his work on photoelectricity?Albert Einstein
- 76Who developed essential theories about molecules connecting?Linus Pauling
- 77Who studied forces holding atoms together and calculated complex organic molecules' exact size and shape?Linus Pauling
- 78Who was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for chemistry?Linus Pauling
- 79Who warned of the polluting effects of pesticides and did much to change the public view?Rachel Carson
- 80Who is a marine biologist?Rachel Carson
- 81Whose most famous work is a book called silent spring?Rachel Carson
- 82Who is most famous for solving the German naval Enigma code during World War Two?Alan Turing
- 83Who beat Tom Richards, who had won the silver medal at the Olympics that year?Alan Turing
- 84Who broke the code by designing a computing machine called the Bombe?Alan Turing
- 85Who challenged fellow scientists to print an encyclopedia on a space the size of a pinhead in 1959?Richard Feynman
- 86Who came up with many important ideas about particles in physics?Richard Feynman
- 87Who worked on the Manhattan Project, a secret project to develop its atomic box?Richard Feynman
- 88Who discovered the structure of DNA?Francis Crick
- 89Who studied how the brains work?Francis Crick
- 90Whose lifespan was from 1916 to 2004?Francis Crick
- 91Who discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick?James Watson
- 92Who took a leading role in the human genome project, which worked out the genetic code of humans?James Watson
- 93Whose lifespan was from 1928 to the present?James Watson
- 94Who made X-ray images of DNA?Rosalind Franklin
- 95Whose lifespan was from 1920 to 1958?Rosalind Franklin
- 96Who was an English scientist?Rosalind Franklin
- 97Who studied Chimpanzees, the animals that are closely related to humans?Jane Goodall
- 98Whose love of animals was inspired by a toy her father gave her as a child?Jane Goodall
- 99Who discovered that chimpanzees could make tools and have complex social behavior?Jane Goodall
- 100Who developed the idea of linking web pages using the Internet?Tim Berner-Lee
- 101Who named his system the World Wide Web?Tim Berner-Lee
- 102Who was given a knighthood in 2004 by Queen Elizabeth the 2nd and was part of the 2012 London Olympic game opening ceremony?Tim Berner-Lee
- 103Who invented the electric motor?Micheal Faraday
- 104Who discovered how to make electromagnets?Micheal Faraday
- 105Who made essential discoveries in chemistry, such as making more robust steel?Micheal Faraday
- 106Who invented the compound microscope?Robert Hooke
- 107Who published a book called micrographia?Robert Hooke
- 108Who came up with the theory of electricity?Robert Hooke
- 109Who was in physics and an expert on black holes?Stephen Hawking
- 110Who worked on cosmology?Stephen Hawking
- 111Who discovered that small amounts of matter can escape from black holes and that they can explode?Stephen Hawking