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Scientists

415 items  ·  2,650 BC to 2,019  ·  7 of 410 shown, by interest

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George Washington Carver
Scientist and early advocate for industrial uses for farm crops (bio-energy). Carver earned a…
Europe + Africa + Middle East 4
John Dalton, First Useful Atomic Theory
John Dalton was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his…
Bede, Father of English History
Bede, also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was a monk at the Northumbrian…
Democritus, 1st Atomic Theory
Democritus ("chosen of the people") was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace,…
Imhotep, Architect Pyramid of Djoser
Imhotep was an Egyptian polymath who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor…
Asia + Oceania 2
Rutherford, Father of Nuclear Physics
Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father…
Aryabhata, Inventor of the Digit Zero
Aryabhata is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in…
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