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James Smithson, FRS, MA (1765 – June 27, 1829) was a British mineralogist and chemist noted for having left a bequest in his will to the United States of America, which was used to fund the Smithson | Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist. He is best known for demonstrating how to prevent milk and wine from going sour, which came to be call | Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is gene | Gregor Mendel
Biography
Mendel was born on July 20, 1822 to a German-speaking family in Heinzendorf, Silesia, then part of the Austrian Empire (now Hynčice in the Czech Republic), and was baptized 2 days la | John Dalton
John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was an English chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. He is most well known for his advocacy of the atomic theory | Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie (May 15, 1859, Paris – April 19, 1906, Paris) was a French physicist and a pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. Together with his Poli | Marie Curie
Marie Curie (Polish: Maria Skłodowska-Curie, born Maria Skłodowska, November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the early field of radi | Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the D | Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the best known Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, | Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmab | Page(s) 1 |
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