II. FAMOUS SCIENTISTS
Jan 04, 2016
II. FAMOUS SCIENTISTS
A. SCIENTIST
What makes a person a scientist?
“A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a
systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more
restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses
the scientific method”
B. FAMOUS SCIENTIST
1. Marie and Pierre Curie
2. Jonas Salk
3. Alfred Nobel
4. John Dalton
5. Dmitri Mendeleev
6. Charles Darwin
French physicist
Studied radioactivity,
magnetism, and
crystallography
Ex: Curie Point – point at
which iron substances lose
their magnetic
characteristics
1. MARIE AND PIERRE CURIEPierre Curie 1859 -1906 Marie Curie 1867 - 1934
• Polish chemist & physicist
• Studied radioactivity, radium, polonium
• Ex: She won 2 Nobel Prizes for her work
• Found that radiation was able to kill tumors
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/scientists/mariepierrecurie.html
What is a disease today that
causes fear???
American chemist &
Biologist
Discovered the vaccine for
polio
Studied influenza, MS,
cancer, AIDS and autoimmune
diseases
2. JONAS SALK 1914 - 1995
http://www.famousscientists.org/jonas-salk/
3. ALFRED NOBEL 1833-1896
What does his name make you
think of?
Swedish inventor
Nitroglycerin (TNT),
explosives,
Nobel Foundation and Nobel
Prize
http://www.famousscientists.org/alfred-nobel/
4. JOHN DALTON 1766 - 1844
British chemist, meteorologist,
and physicist
Atomic theory – table of 6,
atoms, compounds
Recorded Color blindness
“daltonism”
Dalton’s Law
(Ptotal = Ppartial +
Ppartial…)
http://www.famousscientists.org/john-dalton/
5. DMITRI MENDELEEV 1834 – 1907
Russian Chemist
Atoms
Periodic Table of Elements
– elements based on
properties
Gases: Weather balloons
6. CHARLES DARWIN 1809 - 1882
British naturalist &
evolutionist
HMS Beagle voyage and
Galapagos Islands
On the Origin of Species by
Means of Natural Selection
Natural Selection and common
ancestry
Curie
Salk
Nobel
Dalton
Mendeleev
Darwin
CAN YOU REMEMBER?
Periodic Table
Gas Law
TNT
Radiation
Polio
Natural Selection
C. FAMOUS INVENTORS
Michael Faraday
Wilhelm Roentgen
Thomas Edison
British physicist and
chemist
Studied energy and
electromagentism
Invented the electric
motor
1. MICHAEL FARADAY 1 7 9 1 - 1 8 6 7
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinsmek/4673822534/sizes/m/in/photostream/
German physicist
Researched the light
“x-ray”
Produced the first x-
ray photographs (picture
that could penetrate the
human flesh)
2. WILHELM ROENTGEN 1 8 4 5 - 1 9 2 3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmadden/34408227/sizes/m/in/photostream/
3. THOMAS EDISON 1847 -1931
1877 - Phonograph
1879 - “improved” the light
bulb
General Electric
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm