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Claudius Ptolemy
Archimedes
Dmitri Mendeleev
George Washington Carver
Lise Meitner
Nicolas Copernicus
Antoine Lavoisier
John Dalton
Louis Pasteur
William/Lawrence Bragg

Earth Centered Model of the Universe

Looked at practical problems mathematically; Eureka! Eureka!
Development of the Periodic Table
Found ways to improve crops in the South -cotton
Discovered protactinium
Heliocentric Model of the Solar System
Father of Chemistry
Early Atomic Theory; Second Father of Chemistry
Applied Chemistry to disease developing inoculations
Used X-rays to discover atomic structure of molecules and cryst
crystals
James Boyle
Gas Laws
J.A. Charles
Gas Laws
Katherine Burr Blodgett Math, Physics
Elizabeth Blackwell
First woman to receive medical degree, led other women into
the field
Michael Faraday
Electrical Experiments; Shoe Cobbler
Avogadro
Determines the number of atoms in a mole
Marie Curie
Discovered Polonium and Radium; radioactivity
Niels Bohr
Bohr Atom Model
Henri Becquerel
Discovered radioactivity
Ernest Rutherford
Discovered protons in nucleus of atom; electrons charge
Hans Geiger
Developed the Geiger counter to measure radioactivity
Albert Einstein
Theory of General Relativity; Theory of Special Relativity
Edwin Hubble
Basketball coach that discovered new galaxies
Arrhenius
First to work to define acids/bases
Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted
Extended acid/base theory by using protons
Werner Heisenberg
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Linus Pauling
Father of molecular Biology; Chemical bonding
Edwin Schrodinger
Wave Mechanics
Maria Goepphert Mayer
Won Nobel Prize for work on shell structure of Atomic Nuclei
Rachel CarsonWrote Silent Spring; The Sea Around Us; warned others of
pesticides
James ChadwickDiscovered neutron
William/Lawrence Bragg(father/son)- X-ray Crystallography and Protein structure
Rosalind Franklin
Used X-ray Crystallography to prove DNAs structure
J. Robert Oppenheimer
team that sustains a reaction to create nuclear explosion
Hans Fischer
Structure of heme in hemoglobin in blood
Maiman
Invents the laser
Irene Curie-Jolie
Worked with radioactivity; member of French Atomic Energy
Committee
Annie Jump Cannon
Classified stars by light spectra, found 300 variable stars, 5
novae stars

39. Cecelia Payne Gaposchinkin

Authority on variable stars and Milky Way; doctorate in

Astronomy

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Andre Marie Ampere

Enrico Fermi
Laura Bassi
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Caroline HershelMaria Mitchell

Crystallographer; discovered 3-dimensional structure of Insulin

Chemistry/Physics
Radioactitivy; Nuclear Reactions
Physics
Chemistry/Physics
Astronomy
Chemistry, Math

Monologue Requirements: Present a 3 minute monologue about your character. You must have a
paper neatly handwritten or typed. It will be graded with the following rubric. Your chosen
topic will be graded according to your scientists specific story.