Great Scientists
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George Gamow and Big Bang Theory
A short biography of scientist George Gamow, with focus on his "Big Bang" theory of how the universe was created.
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William Harvey and Blood Circulation
Brief biography of English anatomist and physician William Harvey who discovered blood circulation, with his findings in On the Motions of the Heart and Blood.
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Spacecraft Apollo 8 Christmas at the Moon
Awesome Christmas 1968 space exploration when NASA's Apollo 8 with three astronauts became first manned space mission to orbit the Moon at Yuletide season.
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Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics
Famous for inventing the discipline of Cybernetics and his communications theory, Norbert Wiener introduced the concept of feedback mechanism, and terms input and output.
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Ilya Prigogine Biography
Brief biography of Ilya Prigogine, 1977 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, best known for development of irreversible processes in thermodynamics, with "arrow of time."
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Paul Ehrlich Biography
Brief biography and work of Paul Ehrlich, German scientist in immunology and hematology. He coined the word chemotherapy, the chemical that kills cancerous cells.
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David Hilbert Biography
Brief biography of mathematician David Hilbert, who introduced the concepts of formalism into mathematics and the Invariant Theory.
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Kepler and the Star of Bethlehem
German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler came up with a planetary conjecture of planets Jupiter and Saturn, he called The Star of Bethlehem.
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Scientist Linus Pauling Biography
Brief biography of chemist Linus Pauling, so far the only Nobel laureate of two unshared Nobel Prizes, Chemistry and Peace, and known for The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
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Scientist James Lovelock Brief Biography
Brief biography of English scientist James Lovelock who introduced the Gaia hypothesis that the Earth is a single living organism evolving to sustain itself.
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Theory of Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein
Brief biographies and work of physicists Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein, who conceived the idea of the higher level fifth-dimension of unifying forces.
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Henry Ford Brief Biography
Brief biography of American car maker and automobile industrialist, Henry Ford, developed a working gasoline automobile, Model T, and founder of Ford Motors.
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Thomas Alva Edison Biography
Brief biography of inventor and scientist Thomas Alva Edison, with more than 1,000 patents, constructed a film studio, discovered the Edison Effect.
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Richard Feynman Brief Biography
Brief biography of physicist Richard Feynman, one of the founders of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and inventor of Feynman diagrams.
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First Baron Ernest Rutherford Brief Biography
Brief biography of scientist Baron Ernest Rutherford whose work formed the basis of nuclear physics, best known for atom planetary model and atomic nucleus discovery.
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Alfred Binet and His Intelligence Tests
Brief biography and works of psychologist Alfred Binet, pioneer in the practical intelligence tests and co-author of The Binet-Simon Test of Intelligence.
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Life and Vitamin B12
Brief biography and work of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who determined the structures of Penicillin, Vitamin B12, Insulin, and other important biological compounds.
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John Watson on Behavior
Ideas and brief biography of John Watson, American psychologist who championed objective psychology in his behaviorism.
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James Watt Brief Biography
Eighteenth century Scottish technician James Watt is credited for improving Newcomen's steam pump design.
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Charles Lyell and Principles of Geology
Foremost geologist of his day, Charles Lyell's highly popular principles of geology had a huge influence on Charles Darwin.
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Chemist Edward Frankland
Life and works of Sir Edward Frankland who laid the foundation for the theory of valence and discovered the science of organometallic compounds.
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Lev Vygotsky and His Theory
Insights to ideas of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, best-known for his emphasis on the role of social and cultural factors in the development of cognition.
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Gregor Mendel and Heredity
Brief biography of priest and scientist Gregor Mendel who laid the foundation for the modern science of genetics and discovered the Laws of Heredity.
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Heinrich Hertz Biography
A brief biography of Heinrich Hertz, who discovered the radio waves, and that heat and light are electromagnetic waves, a precursor to wireless telegraphy.
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Hipparchus Greek Astronomer
Hipparchus' precision and astronomical calculations led to his invention of trigonometry and discovery of precession, the compilation of the first Star Catalogue.
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Contributing Articles in Great Scientists
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Charles Darwin's Letters
The letters of Charles Darwin, author of the Origin of Species, can be viewed free online, allowing the reader an intimate access to his family and scientific life.
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Biography of Alan Turing – Creator of Computing
Alan Turing was one of Britain's greatest thinkers of the 20th century who defined modern computing and artificial intelligence. He has subsequently become a gay icon.
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The World's Greatest Scientists
The great scientists in history either changed the world, their science or both. This group of top scientists made a big impact on their science.
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5 Greatest Scientists in History
No bigger impact can be felt by these men who created or changed the scientific world. These great scientific thinkers affected the thinking of the human race as well.
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Thought Provoking Albert Einstein Quotations
Not only was Albert Einstein an accomplished scientist, but he was also some what of a philosopher; his words remain true to this day just like his scientific formulas.
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Biography of Augusta Ada Lovelace, Nee Byron
Daughter of the poet Byron, Ada is known as a mathematical genius through her work with Babbage. But her intelligence didn't prevent her losing a fortune on the horses.
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Charles Darwin the Thinker
Clues to the evolution of Darwin's ideas lie in his daily routine. As a man of comfortable means, he was free from the pressures of modern science to find time to think.
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A Biography of Leonhard Euler
Euler produced more work and of high quality than any other mathematician in history. His contemporaries dubbed him "Analysis Incarnate."
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Gaspard Monge
Monge's mathematics research laid the foundations of modern descriptive geometry, a field essential to mechanical and architectural drawing.
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Henri Poincaré
Poincaré was arguably one of the most important persons in the history of science, making contributions in many fields - chaos theory, relativity and optics to name a few
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Richard Dawkins Quotes
Richard Dawkins is a passion-inspiring man. His critics have dubbed him a fanatic, but his supporters say that he's finally saying what has needed to be said for too long
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The Snowflake Man Wilson A. Bentley
On January 15, 1885, a self-taught 19-year old captured the first photograph of an ice crystal through a microscope and forever changed the way people look at snow.
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A Brief Biography of Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
Sigmund Freud (full name Sigismus Schlomo Freud) was an Austrian psychiatrist. He was the most influential psychological theorist of the twentieth century.
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Biography of Philipp Lenard
Philipp Lenard's major contribution to science was in the study of cathode rays, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905.
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Carl Sagan and the Pale Blue Dot
A single photograph of the Earth, taken from a vast distance, gave a new view of the planet and its place in the Cosmos.
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Karl Guthe Jansky
The life story of Karl Jansky, who discovered the first radio waves of celestial origin in the 1930s while working for Bell labs.
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Ptolemy Astronomer Geographer
Ptolemy was an ancient Greek scholar who originated the Ptolemaic system in astronomy and made important contributions to geography and optics.
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Introduction to John Dee
The legacy of Dee and Kelley, Enochian Magick and Enochian script continues to fascinate many to this day.
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