Biology
Greek philosopher considered the father of biology
Who is Aristotle?
Anglo-Irishman who discovered the volume and pressure of a gas are inversely related
Who was Robert Boyle?
French microbiologist who pioneered germ theory
Who was Louis Pasteur?
German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect
Who was Albert Einstein?
Greek considered the father of geometry who wrote The Elements
Who was Euclid?
Moravian who pioneered the study of genetics
Who was Gregor Mendel?
Polish scientist who discovered polonium and radium
Who was Marie Curie?
Greek physician who was first to see diseases as caused by nature and not supernatural forces
Who was Hippocrates?
Tuscan physicist forced to live under house arrest until his death for arguing the geocentric model
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Persian father of algebra who popularized Hindu-Arabic numerals
Who was al-Khwarizmi?
Dutchman who discovered microorganisms using a microscope
Who was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
Frenchman considered the father of modern chemistry
Who was Antoine Lavoisier?
Greek physician whose theories were accepted in Europe for 1500 years
Who was Galen?
German physicists who discovered elliptical planetary orbits
Who was Johannes Kepler?
Greek mathematician who famously shouted, "Eureka" when he discovered the principle of buoyancy
Who was Archimedes?
Arab physician who was first to describe pulmonary circulation
Who was ibn al-Nafis?
English chemist who developed the modern Atomic Theory in chemistry
Who was John Dalton?
Persian author of The Canon of Medicine, the standard textbook for 600 years
Who is Avicenna [ibn Sina]?
German physicists who laid the groundwork for quantum physics
Who was Max Planck?
German mathematician who invented calculus independently from Sir Isaac Newton
Who was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
English microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering penicilin
Who was Alexander Fleming?
American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on chemical bonds
Who was Linus Pauling?
Belgian anatomist who was the first to dissect human cadavers
Who was Andreas Vesalius?
Indian philosopher who conceptualized atoms independently of Greek philosophers
Who was Maharishi Kanada?
Persian mathematician who used trigonometry to measure the earth's circumference
Who was al-Biruni?