Earth Science

thales

earth was a flat disk floating on water

ptolemy

geocentric

nicolaus copernicus

heliocentric

phytagoras

established a movement in which mathematics became a discipline fundamental to all scientific

erathosthenes

accurate measurement of the earth

aristarchus

sun centered the universe

archimedes

laid the foundations of mechanics & hydrostatics

theophratus

founder of botany

hipparchus

developed trigonometry

herophilus and erasistratus

based anatomy and physiology on dissection

galileo galilei

modernized telescope

andreas visalius

discovered the circulation of blood

michael faraday

made astonishment of discoveries in the field of electricity

evangelista torricelli

barometer

christian huygens

pendulum clock

robot boyle and otto von guericke

exhaust pump

charles darwin

theory of gradual evolution through natural selection

john dalton

atomic theory of matter

michael faraday and james clerk maxwell

electromagnetic theories

james prescott joule

law of conservation of energy

empedocles

The world is made of 4 elements: earth

tycho brahe

made accurate observations of the positions of stars

johannes kepler

planets orbits the sun in ellipses

hans lippershey

Invented the telescope

christoph scheiner

sunspots were satellites of the sun

william harvey

published his discovery of how blood circulates around the body.

galen

blood passes from one side of the heart to the other through the septum.

realdo colombo

demonstrated that blood actually travels from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs

jan swammerdam

first observed red blood corpuscles.

marcello malpighi

discovered capillaries

robert hooke

first person to describe cells

robert boyle

famous for boyle's law

axel cronstedt

discovered nickel

henry cavendish

calculated the density of the earth. isolated hydrogen and studied its properties

daniel rutherford

discovered nitrogen

joseph priestley

discovered oxygen

joseph black

discovered carbon dioxide

antoine lavoisier

greatest chemist of the 18th century. He discovered that during combustion oxygen combines with substances. He also discovered the role of oxygen in respiration and corrosion of metals.

william herchel

Discovered Uranus

georges leclerc comte de buffon and karl linnaeus

two great biologists of the 18th century. Linnaeus invented a method of classifying living things

alessandro volta

invented the first chemical battery

john dalton

atomic theory. colour of blindness

friedrich wohler

isolated aluminium

dmitri mendeleev

formulated the periodic table

herman von helmholtz

formulated the law of the conservation of energy

gregor mendel

laws of hereditary by breeding peas

john snow

cholera was transmitted by water

louis pasteur

microscopic organisms caused disease

henri becquerel

discovered radioactivity

marie curie and pierrie curie

discovered radium

guiseppe piazzi

discovered the first asteroid

ernest rutherford

discovered the atomic nucleus

james chadwick

Discovered the neutron

max plank

quantum theory

albert einstein

theory of special relativity

werner heisenberg

published uncertainty principle

alexander fleming

penicillin

francis crick and james watson

discovered the double helix structure of DNA

stephen hawking

most famous physicist of the late 20th century

fe del mundo

incubator

gregorio y. zara

videophone

agapito flores

fluorescent lamp

roberto del rosario

karaoke

jose rodriguez

methods of controlling leprosy

dr. abelardo aguilar

discovered erythmomycin

carl von linde

refrigerator

wilbur and orville wright

first airplane

henry ford

first car

alexander graham bell

Invented the telephone

roger bacon

magnifying glass

zacharias jansen

compound microscope

blaise pascal

adding machine

robert boyle

methanol

nicholas-joseph cugnot

automobile

david busshell

submarine

rene-theophile-hyacinthe laennec

stethoscope

johann salomo cristoph schweigger

galvanometer

barthelemy thimonnier

sewing machine

charles goodyear

vulcanized rubber

benjamin chew tighman

paper

emile beliner

microphone

charles and frank duryea

gasoline automobile

wilhelm konrad rontgen

discovered x-rays

w. h carrier

air conditioning

georges claude

neon lamp

irving langmuir

gas filled incandescent lamp

sir frederick grand banting

insulin

george and ladislao biro

ballpoint pen

igor sikorsky

helicopter

selman a. waksman

Streptomycin

percy l. spencer

microwave oven

peter carl goldmark

color television

bell telephone laboratory scientist

solar battery. transistors

jonas salk

polio vaccine

c. townes

a. schawlow

j. s kilby and j. d merryman

electronic pocket calculator

j. h. van tassel and seymour cray

supercomputer

joop sinjou

toshi tada doi

robert k. jarvik

artificial heart

rudolf diesel

diesel engine