An American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades.

Famous Scientists 88-100

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Meredith Walters
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Who was Katherine Johnson?
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Defining the law of conservation of mass, which helped shape atomic theory.
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What is Antoine Lavoisier known for?
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch microbiologist who discovered protists and bacteria.
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Who is acknowledged as the father of microbiology?
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Creating a system of naming plants and animals known as the binomial system.
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What is Carl Linnaeus famous for?
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He proposed that light is an undulation in the same medium that is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.
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What did James Clerk Maxwell propose about light?
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She helped discover the radioactive element protactinium and was the first to describe and coin the term 'nuclear fission'.
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What did Lise Meitner contribute to physics?
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Her work in mathematical physics, especially Noether's theorem, which relates symmetries in the universe to mathematical conservation laws.
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What is Emmy Noether famous for?
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