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Famous Scientists: Albert Einstein
Read a short biography about Albert Einstein, and find out how he discovered the general theory of relativity.
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Famous Scientists: Antonio Meucci
A short biography about Antonio Meucci, best known for developing a voice communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
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Famous Scientists: Aristotle
A detailed biography of Aristotle (384-322 BC). Discusses his early life, his education, his relationship with Alexander the Great as tutor, the breadth of his work in various science disciplines, the school he established in Athens, and...
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Famous Scientists: Arnold Orville Beckman
A short biography about Arnold Orville Beckman, once considered to have revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology with his work in bioscience instruments.
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Famous Scientists: Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter may be a familiar name in children's literature, but what a lot do not know is that she is a notable woman of science as well. Find out in this short biography.
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Famous Scientists: Charles Darwin
A short biography of Charles Darwin, and how he discovered evolutionary theory and natural selection.
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Famous Scientists: Clarence Birdseye
A short biography about Clarence Birdseye, who is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry.
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Famous Scientists: Daniel Bernoulli
Read a short biography about Daniel Bernoulli, and find out about his work in fluid mechanics, and his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
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Famous Scientists: Dorothy Hodgkin
A short biography about Dorothy Hodgkin, a British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
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Famous Scientists: Edmund Halley
Read a short biography about Edmund Halley, and find out why the comet bears his name.
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Famous Scientists: Elizabeth Blackwell
A short biography about Elizabeth Blackwell, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
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Famous Scientists: Emil Adolf Behring
A short biography about the German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin.
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Famous Scientists: Emmy Noether
A short biography about mathematician, Emmy Noether who was known for her landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
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Famous Scientists: Ernest Rutherford
This short biography about Ernest Rutherford explains how he became known as the father of nuclear chemistry and physics.
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Famous Scientists: Galileo Galilei
Read a short biography about astronomer Galileo, one of the most significant people in the history of science.
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Famous Scientists: Hedy Lamarr
Learn about the diverse life of Hedy Lamarr in this article that contains her biography.
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Famous Scientists: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
This article gives a biography of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Learn about her discoveries in astronomy.
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Famous Scientists: J. Hans D. Jensen
This article gives you the full biography of J. Hans D. Jensen.
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Famous Scientists: Jagadish Chandra Bose
This article gives a full biography of Jagadish Chandra Bose.
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Famous Scientists: Jean Andre Deluc
This article contains the full biography of meteorologist, geologist, and physicist Jean Andre Deluc.
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Famous Scientists: Jean Baptiste Lamarck
This article gives a biography of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
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Famous Scientists: Joseph Priestley
This article gives the biography of Joseph Priestley.
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Famous Scientists: Justus Von Liebig
This article will give the biography of Justus von Liebig.
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Famous Scientists: Kip S. Thorne
This article gives a full biography of Kip S. Thorne.