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Anaximander

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Anaximander 2,600 years ago, Anaximander became the first person in recorded history to recognize that the earth exists as a solitary body which does not need to rest on top of anything else. Fascinated by the structure of the earth, he produced one...

André Marie Ampère

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André Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère made the revolutionary discovery that a wire carrying electric current can attract or repel another wire next to it that’s also carrying electric current. The attraction is magnetic, but no magnets are necessary...

Luis Alvarez

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Luis Alvarez Luis Alvarez was a Nobel Prize winning physicist, probably most famous for the discovery of the iridium layer and his theory that the mass extinction of dinosaurs was caused by an asteroid or comet colliding with Earth. Besides doing th...

Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon Lived 1561 – 1626. Francis Bacon discovered and popularized the scientific method, whereby the laws of science are discovered by gathering and analyzing data from experiments and observations, rather than by using logic-based argumen...

Amedeo Avogadro

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Amedeo Avogadro Amedeo Avogadro is best known for his hypothesis that equal volumes of different gases contain an equal number of molecules, provided they are at the same temperature and pressure.His hypothesis was rejected by other scientists. It o...

Alexander Graham Bell

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Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Remarkably, he only worked on his invention because he misunderstood a technical work he had read in German. His misunderstanding ultimately led to his discovery of how speech could...

Mary Anning

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Mary Anning (1799 – 1847) Mary Anning was born into poverty, but became the greatest fossil finder of her era, powerfully influencing the new science of paleontology. She overcame a lack of formal education to emerge as one of the foremost authorit...

Archimedes

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Archimedes Archimedes was, arguably, the world’s greatest scientist – certainly the greatest scientist of the classical age.He was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer, inventor, and weapons-designer. As we’ll see, he was a man who was ...

Aristarchus

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Aristarchus Promoted the idea that the earth follows a circular orbit around the sun eighteen centuries before Nicolaus Copernicus resurrected the idea.It’s funny, but not all the scientists we talk about on this website are actually famous. Some...

Aristotle

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Aristotle A genius whose philosophical ideas are still taught, but his contributions to science retarded progress for almost two millennia.Aristotle’s influence on western culture and science has been enormous. His writings, many of which survived...