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Venerable Bede
(672-735) 🇬🇧wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)🇬🇧
scientific method
philosopher, sceptical approach, empiricism, patron of libraries, Bacon's cypher, water desalination
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Isaac Newton
(1642-1727) 🇬🇧English scientist who formulated the law of gravitation that posited a universe operating in accord with natural law.
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Edmond Halley
(1656-1741)🇬🇧
astronomer mathematician, Halley's ☄️, funded Newton, discovered Stellar motion
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Adam Smith
(1656-1742)🇬🇧
Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations a precursor to modern Capitalism.
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Michael Faraday
1791-1867 🇬🇧English chemist who created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo.
Father of electricity. Induction. Electromagnetism. Faraday cage
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Charles Darwin
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5year voyage HMS beagle
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Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797)🇬🇧
English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women
The history of French Revolution
lots of affairs -> biography by husband
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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engineer, Industrial Revolution, the great western railway, steamships -> Crimean war, innovative, Brunel university of London
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John Snow
1813-1858-🇬🇧British PHYSICIAN, created handmade GIS in 1854 to fight CHOLERA-Overlayed map of victim's homes with a map of water pumps to find the source of the issue. EPIDEMIOLOGIST
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Ada Lovelace
🇬🇧1815-1852
Lord Byron's daughter. Contributed to Charles Babbage's analytical engine. Ada the early programming language. Day: 2nd Tuesday in October
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Florence Nightingale
(182
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Bertrand Russell
🇬🇧3rd Earl Russell
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1872-197
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logician, philosopher, epistemology, affairs, analytic philosophy (Gottlieb Frege), 195
-NP in literature. Campaigns for peace. A history of western philosophy
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Alexander Flemming
1881-1955 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Physician, microbiologist, penicillin, NP in physiology/medicine
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John Logie Baird
1888-1945 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 engineer TV(1926)
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
191
confirmation of penicillin's structure
B12 structure -> NP 1964 (chem)
Copley medal, Lomonossow medal, Royal medal
insulin 1969
Orden of merit
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Anne McLaren
1927-2
DBE
in vitro fertilisation
1978- test-tube baby
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Mary Anning
(1799-1847) 🇬🇧discovered several species of extinct marine reptiles. Dorset, Jurassic coast.
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Rosalind Franklin
🇬🇧 Woman who generated x-ray images of DNA, she povided Watson and Crick with key data about DNA
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Joseph Priestley
🇬🇧 discovered oxygen in 1774
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Edward Jenner
🇬🇧 Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796
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Tim Berners-Lee
1955 🇬🇧 invented the World Wide Web (WWW)
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16- Turing award
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Thomas Edison
1847-1931 🇺🇸
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93 patents
organised science
phonograph, motion picture camera, light bulb, improved telephone
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Benjamin Franklin
(17
ELECTRICITY: kite experiment, words (conductor, charge, condense, electrify), bifocal, lightning rod
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Nikola Tesla
1856-1943 🇷🇸 🇺🇸
Alternative current
Radio, fluorescent, neon lightning, hydroelectric Power Plant
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Florence Bascom
🇺🇸 1862-1945 Geologist, 2 bachelor's: arts, science -> phd in geology
1896- 1st woman in US geological survey
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Linus Pauling
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NP 1954 chemistry
NPP 1962 (1 of 5 double)
founded: quantum chemistry, molecular biology, dna
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Alexander Graham Bell
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 (1847-1922) The inventor of the telephone, patented in 1876.187
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Enrico Fermi
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Manhattan project
1938 physics NP
architect of the nuclear age'atomic bomb
Fermi: paradox, problem, golden rule, award
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J. Robert Oppeheimer
19
Manhattan project
Father of the atomic bomb
July 1945- trinity
Fermi award
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Rachel Carson
19
🇺🇸 writer and marine biologist
*Wrote Silent Spring (1962), a study on dangerous insecticides
*Helped initiate the environment movement
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Jonas Salk
(1914-1995) 🇺🇸 Scientist who developed the polio vaccine in 1952/5
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Richard Feynman
1918-1988 🇺🇸
Quantum dynamics electrodynamics
Atomic bomb
1965- physics NP
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Vera Rubin
1928-2
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Carl Sagan
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