Famous Scientists

This famous scientist is best known for discovering radioactivity which is used medically in x-rays, gamma rays, electron beams and to destroy cancer cells.

• Stephen Hawking

• Marie Curie

• Thomas Edison

• Mary Anning

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Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei

• were both chemists.

• were both astronomers.

• were both botanists.

• were both artists.

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To show that lightning was indeed electrical, this scientist flew a kite during a storm, to which he had attached a key. When the kite was struck by lightning, he felt electric sparks from the key.

• Albert Einstein

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Isaac Newton

• Benjamin Franklin

While I was sitting under a tree, an apple fell off the tree and hit me on the head. I worked out that something must be pulling the apple downwards and, after much more thinking, I worked out that it was the Earth that was pulling down the apple.

• I am Isaac Newton.

• I am Benjamin Franklin.

• I am Marie Curie.

• I am Archimedes.

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“Remember to look up at the stars not down at your feet.”

• Stephen Hawking said this.

• Nikola Tesla said this.

• Michael Faraday said this.

• Leonardo da Vinci said this.

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One of my most famous discoveries happened when I was in a bath. I discovered a way of measuring the volume of an object by putting it in water and seeing how much the water rose.

• I am Anders Celsius

• I am Mary Anning

• I am Thomas Edison

• I am Archimedes

I specialise in working with electricity. I am most known for designing the AC (alternating current electric system) which we still use today. My inventions have paved the way to many of today’s essential technology such as remote controls, radio, wireless technology, etc.

• Nikola Tesla

• Michael Faraday

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Marie Curie

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Edwin Hubble

• invented the telephone.

• studied gravity.

• is best known for discovering radioactivity which is used medically in x-rays.

• showed that there are galaxies beyond our own, the Milky way.

This scientist is one of the earliest fossil hunters and was the first person to uncover a full Ichthyosaurus skeleton (a fossil of an ancient reptile).

• Archimedes

• Anders Celsius

• Mary Anning

• Rosalind Franklin

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Timothy Berners-Lee

• invented the World Wide Web.

• invented the telephone.

• invented the light bulb.

• invented the telescope.