600 BC-500AD
The first real scientist you studied
Thales
Considered the first modern scientist
Grosseteste
The single greatest scientist of all time
Sir Isaac Newton
Founder of modern physics
James Maxwell
T/F: Can Science prove anything? Is it 100% reliable?
NO
Ancient Greek scientist who believed atoms are in constant motion
Democritus
Proposed heliocentric system
Copernicus
Discovered the Law of Mass Conservation
Lavoisier
Proposed natural selection (evolution)
Charles Darwin
Developed picture/model of the atom
Bohr
First to attempt to describe planet and stars orbit. Scientist and name of system
Ptolemy, geocentric system
Collected much data in favor of the heliocentric system but was forced to recant belief in it
Galileo
Developed the first detailed atomic theory; founder of modern atomic theory
John Dalton
Demonstrated the First Law of Thermodynamics
James Joule
Developed special theory and general theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
Developed the idea of spontaneous generation. How long was it believed?
Aristotle, 2000 years
More famous than Grosseteste; sometimes given his title in error
Roger Bacon
Determined how traits are passed on in reproduction
Mendel
Destroyed the theory of spontaneous generation. Milk is processed now by (named after him)
Louis Pasteur, pasteurization
What was good and bad about the Enlightenment
Good: used evidence only
Bad: started moving away from the Bible as authority
Father of atomic theory (all matter is composed of atoms)
Leucippus
Priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow
Dietrich Von Freiberg
Built the first microscope
van Leeuwenhoek
Published book to classify all living creatures
Linnaeus
Alchemists understood this wrong (about chemical reactions)
New substances can be created but not new matter