Question

Write down ten scientist names and research about them

Answer 1

Archimedes (287 - 212 BC)

A very versatile personality, Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer, and a very successful inventor. He was popular for his ingenious thinking, and was responsible for developing many innovative machines.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and philosopher. He is known as the father of modern observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, and also the father of modern science. From among his several inventions and discoveries, Galileo is best known for his contributions to astronomy. Using the telescope, he was able to confirm the phases of planet Venus, discover and document the four largest satellites of planet Jupiter, which have been named as Galilean moons in his honor.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1726)

Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician, who is widely recognized as one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. He played a key role in the development of calculus, and through his extensive study of light, made the first practical reflecting telescope, a technology which till date is used to study the heavens. But perhaps the most important and famous of his discoveries was that of gravity. Newton was able to, not only describe why an apple fell towards the Earth rather than fly away from it, but also provide the mathematical basis for this theory,

Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931)

Among the numerous inventions of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prominent one is the electric bulb, which is still used today to light up our nights. Apart from that, he also invented a number of useful instruments, including the telegraph devices, phonograph, carbon transmitter, direct current generator, gramophone -

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955)

Sir Alexander Fleming worked in the army medical corp in the First World War, where he witnessed many soldiers die from sepsis resulting from infected wounds. He began actively searching for antibacterial agents, by becoming the world's first antibiotic.

Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867)

Michael Faraday was an English physicist, who made some of the most significant contributions to the fields of electromagnetism and electro-chemistry. Although his formal education was scarce, through extensive research and experimentation, he was able to discover the principle of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and then put forth the laws of electrolysis. He invented the electromagnetic rotary devices,

Alexander Graham Bell (1857 - 1922)

It was during his experiments with the telegraph that Alexander Graham Bell thought up the concept of the telephone, which, without a question, is one of the most useful inventions of all time. Bell himself, however, considered the telephone to be intruding, and did not have a telephone at his place of work.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest minds of modern times. He was wholly responsible for the development of the modern theory of gravity, and partly responsible for the development of quantum mechanics, both of which are the pillars of modern physics. His special and general theories of relativity have captured the minds of the scientific community for decades, and are thought to be so complex that very few people are able to actually grasp their full extent. Einstein is best known for his equation E=mc2,

Stephen William Hawking (1942 - present)

Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, as well as the Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology in the University of Cambridge. From the age of 21, Hawking has been suffering from a slow-progressing form of ALS, which has gradually paralyzed him over the years. However, that didn't stop him from becoming one of the most famous scientists of modern times. He collaborated with Roger Penrose, and proposed the gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity. He later went on to predict that black holes emitted radiation, a phenomenon which has been named Hawking radiation,

Other Notable Scientists

Scientist

Invention

:Benjamin Franklin

Electricity

:Wright Brothers

Airplane

:James Watt

Steam Engine

;:Alessandro Volta

Electric Cell

;:Edward Teller

Hydrogen Bomb

:Rudolf Diesel

Compression Ignition Engine

:John Browning

Automatic Firearms

:Louis Braille

Braille System

:Tim Berners-Lee

World Wide Web

:Charles Babbage

Computer

:Marie Curie

Radioactivity

:Niels Bohr

Bohr Theory of the Atom

:Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

X-rays

:Joseph John Thomson

Mass Spectrograph

:William Thompson

Kelvin Temperature Scale

:Robert Bunsen

Cesium and Rubidium

:John Dalton

Atomic Theory