Unit 65: Review of Historical Figures

Figures in the History of Science (Semester II)

You should be able to recognize each of the people listed below and identify his or her contribution to our understanding of how nature works.

1. Otto von Guericke
2. Stephen Grey
3. Charles Dufay
4. Benjamin Franklin
5. Luigi Galvani
6. Allesandro Volta
7. Friedrich Schelling
8. Hans Christian Oersted
9. Andre-Marie Ampere
10. Georg Simon Ohm
11. Michael Faraday
12. James Clerk Maxwell
13. Wilhelm Röntgen
14. Pierre and Marie Curie
15. JJ Thomson
16. Ernst Rutherford
17. Niels Bohr
18. Albert Michelson and Edward Morley
19. Hendrik Lorentz and George FitzGerald
20. Albert Einstein
21. John Audobon
22. John Muir
23. Rachel Carson
24. Jan Baptista van Helmont
25. Jan Ingenhousz
26. Julius von Sachs and Theodor Englemann
27. Melvin Calvin
28. Hans Krebs
29. George Beadle and Edward Tatem
30. Alfred Hershey and Margaret Chase
31. Francis Crick and James Watson
32. William, Caroline, and John Herschel
33. Joseph von Fraunhofer
34. Annie Canon
35. Cecilia Payne
36. Heber Curtis
37. Harlow Shapley
38. Henrietta Leavitt
39. Edwin Hubble
40. Heinric Wilhelm Oblers
41. George Gamow
42. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
43. Stephen Hawking

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