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Dr. David Livingstone
Few Europeans have contributed as much to the exploration of Africa as a gentle Scottish missionary named David Livingstone. He was a curious combination of missionary, d... |
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Buys Ballot, Chemist and Meteorologist
Buys Ballot was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named.
Buys Ballot tested the Doppler effect for sound wav... |
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Karl Marx, Founder Communism
Karl Marx, with Friedrich Engels, a founder of modern socialism and communism. The son of a lawyer, he studied law and philosophy; he rejected the idealism of Hegel but w... |
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Léon Foucault, Inventor
Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an ear... |
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John Adams, Discovered Neptune - 1845
John Adams was an English mathematician and astronomer who predicted the existence of Neptune. While a student at Cambridge he wrote this note (found only after his death... |
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Gregor Mendel, Father of Genetics
Gregor Johann Mendel was a Austrian priest and scientist, and is often called the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel show... |
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Heinrich Schliemann, Archaeologist
In all of Heinrich Schliemann's archaeological efforts, he worked to prove the historicity of the Trojan War. Although it is unclear, at what point in his life he came to... |
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Louis Pasteur, Germ Theory of Disease
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, in the region of Jura, France. His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ th... |
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Sir Francis Galton, Pioneer in Eugenics
Sir Francis Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist,... |
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace, English naturalist, evolutionist, geographer, anthropologist, and social critic and theorist. Co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection and... |
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Gustav Kirchhoff, German Physicist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radia... |
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Lord Kelvin, William Thomson
The Right Honourable William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, GCVO, OM, PC, PRS was a Scottish-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer, an outstanding leader in the physical... |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and did more than anyone else to advance its acceptance among sci... |
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Maxwell, Light is an Electromagnetic Wave
James Maxwell's most important achievement was his extension and mathematical formulation of Michael Faraday's theories of electricity and magnetic lines of force. In his... |
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Lewis Carroll, Author Alice in Wonderland
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer. H... |
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