Important People and Scientists

Issac Newton

Laws of motion, universal gravitation, optics

Albert Einstein

theory of relativity, E = mc²

Galileo Galilei

Telescope observations, heliocentric support, laws of motion, observed moons of Jupiter, phases of Venus

James Clerk Maxwell

electromagnetism (Maxwell’s equations)

Dmitri Mendeleev

periodic table

Marie Curie

radioactivity, discovered polonium and radium

Antoine Lavoisier

law of conservation of mass, identified oxygen

John Dalton

atomic theory

Charles Darwin

theory of evolution by natural selection

Gregor Mendel

father of genetics, pea plant experiment

Louis Pasteur

germ theory of disease, pasteurization

Robert Hooke

discovered cells, coined the term “cell”

Alexander Fleming

discovered penicillin

Nicolaus Copernicus

heliocentric solar system model

Edwin Hubble

expanding universe theory, hubble’s law

Alfred Wegener

continental drift theory

Thomas Edison

lightbulb, phonograph

Nikola Tesla

Alternating current (AC) electricity

Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur)

first powered airplane