Great Scientists
Feature Writer Articles in Great Scientists
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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