Great Scientists
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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. more...
Life and works of Sir Edward Frankland who laid the foundation for the theory of valence and discovered the science of organometallic compounds. more...
Brief biography of priest and scientist Gregor Mendel who laid the foundation for the modern science of genetics and discovered the Laws of Heredity. more...
A brief biography of Heinrich Hertz, who discovered the radio waves, and that heat and light are electromagnetic waves, a precursor to wireless telegraphy. more...
Hipparchus' precision and astronomical calculations led to his invention of trigonometry and discovery of precession, the compilation of the first Star Catalogue. more...
Euclid's Life and the Elements
Brief account of Euclid's work in relation to geometry and the key postulates from his famous book the Elements. more...
Brief biography of John Dalton, scientist and weather pioneer who established the modern concept of atoms known as Dalton's Atomic Theory. more...
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Euler produced more work and of high quality than any other mathematician in history. His contemporaries dubbed him "Analysis Incarnate." more...
Monge's mathematics research laid the foundations of modern descriptive geometry, a field essential to mechanical and architectural drawing. more...
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 more...
By: Jared Plotkin
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 more...
The Snowflake Man Wilson A. Bentley
By: Pat Maitland
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. more...
A Brief Biography of Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
By: Jen Syrkiewicz
Sigmund Freud (full name Sigismus Schlomo Freud) was an Austrian psychiatrist. He was the most influential psychological theorist of the twentieth century. more...
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. more...
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