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Famous Scientists: Alfred Nobel
Learn about the man who invented dynamite, Alfred Nobel, and discover how that led him to invest his fortune in the establishment of the Nobel Prize.
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Famous Scientists: Alfred Russel Wallace
Learn about the life and work of Alfred Wallace, who is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings.
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Famous Scientists: Alfred Wegener
Find out about the life and work of Alfred Wegener, known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, and is most remembered as the originator of the theory of continental drift.
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Famous Scientists: Amedeo Avogadro
Learn about the life and work of Amedeo Avogadro, who was most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law.
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Famous Scientists: Anaximander
Find out about the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who observed and explained different aspects of the universe, with a particular interest in its origins.
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Famous Scientists: Anders Celsius
Learn about the life and work of Anders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer who proposed the Celsius temperature scale which bears his name.
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Famous Scientists: Antoine Lavoisier
Find out about the life and work of Antoine Lavoisier, sometimes known as the father of modern chemistry.
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Famous Scientists: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Learn about the life and work of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, best known for his work on the improvement of the microscope, and considered to be the first microbiologist.
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Famous Scientists: Antony Hewish
Learn about Antony Hewish, a radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars.
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Famous Scientists: Aristarchus
Find out about the ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it.
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Famous Scientists: Arthur Eddington
Learn about English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, Arthur Eddington. He is noted for his groundbreaking research work in astrophysics.
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Famous Scientists: Artturi Virtanen
Learn how Artturi Virtanen's inventions and research in agricultural and nutrition chemistry made him a Nobel Prize Laureate.
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Famous Scientists: Avicenna
Find out about Islamic scholar and theologan Avicenna, whose book al-Qanun comprised of the entire medical knowledge available from ancient and Muslim sources.
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Famous Scientists: B. F. Skinner
Learn about the life and work of one of the most influential psychologists of all time, B.F. Skinner. He is known for inventing the operant conditioning chamber, and for his own experimental analysis of behavior.
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Famous Scientists: Barbara Mc Clintock
Learn how Barbara McClintock made a number of groundbreaking discoveries in genetics.
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Famous Scientists: Benjamin Franklin
Find out how Benjamin Franklin had a profound effect on our understanding of electricity and shaped the language we use when we talk about it.
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Famous Scientists: Benjamin Thompson
FInd out about one of the leading figures in the history of thermodynamics, Bnejamin Thompson.
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Famous Scientists: Bernardo Houssay
Find out about Bernardo Alberto Houssay, the first Latin American and Argentine to receive the Nobel Prize for his research on the role that pituitary hormones play in sugar metabolism.
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Famous Scientists: Bill Nye
Learn all about Bill Nye, the science guy, and find out how he has contributed to many aspects of science.
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Famous Scientists: Brahmagupta
Find out about mathematician Brahmagupta, who was the first to give rules to compute with zero.
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Famous Scientists: C. V. Raman
Learn about the Indian physicist who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Famous Scientists: Carl Bosch
Learn about the life and work of German chemist, engineer, and Nobel laureate in chemistry, Carl Bosch.
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Famous Scientists: Carl Friedrich Gauss
Find out about Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians in history.
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Famous Scientists: Charles Babbage
See how Charles Babbage was best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer.