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Famous Scientists: Theodosius Dobzhansky
Read a short biography about Theodosius Dobzhansky, a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis.
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Burnet
Read this short biography about theologian, Thimas Burnet.
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Hunt Morgan
A short biography of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.
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Famous Scientists: Timothy John Berners Lee
Read a short biography of the man best known for inventing the World Wide Web.
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Famous Scientists: Ukichiro Nakaya
A short biography about Ukichiro Nakaya, who is known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.
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Famous Scientists: Virginia Apgar
Read a short biography about the woman who was best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of newborn children immediately after birth.
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Famous Scientists: William Buckland
A short biography about the geologist and palaeontologist who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur named Megalosaurus.
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Famous Scientists: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
A short biography about Charles Coulomb, known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion.
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Famous Scientists: Ahmed Zewail
Learn about Ahmed Zewail, the father of femtochemistry, and the first Arab scientist to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field.
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Famous Scientists: Albrecht Von Haller
Read about the Swiss scientist sometimes referred to as the father of modern physiology.
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Famous Scientists: Alexander Fleming
Find out about the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the antibiotic, penicillin.
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Famous Scientists: Alexander Graham Bell
Get to know Alexander Graham Bell, the scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first telephone.
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Famous Scientists: Archimedes
Learn about the ancient Greek mathematician regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.
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Famous Scientists: Arnold Sommerfeld
Learn about the scientist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also served as PhD supervisor for many Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry.
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Famous Scientists: Benjamin Cabrera
Learn about the Filipino scientist, Benjamin Cabrera, who specialized in parasitology.
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Famous Scientists: Blaise Pascal
Find out about the French philosopher and scientist who was one of the greatest and most influential mathematical writers of all time, Blaise Pascal.
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Famous Scientists: Carolus Linnaeus
Learn about the life and work of Carolus Linnaeus, the scientist who formalized the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature.
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Famous Scientists: Christiaan Huygens
Learn about prominent Dutch mathematician and scientist, Christiaan Huygens, whose work included early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock, and other...
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Famous Scientists: Clyde Tombaugh
Find out about Clyde Tombaugh, the scientist who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, and also discovered a number of asteroids.
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Famous Scientists: Edward Jenner
Learn about the english physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the first vaccination.
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Famous Scientists: Edward Teller
Learn about Edward Teller, knows as the father of the hydrogen bomb, and the scientist who made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy and surface physics
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Famous Scientists: Edwin Herbert Land
Learn about the scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, Edwin Herbert Land.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Haeckel
Find out about Ernst Haeckel, a scientist known for his work with ecology, zoology, and the study of phylogeny.