Timeline Assignment

 

Each person listed below is a scientist.

 

You will be given two names from this list.  Use an internet search to find the following information for each of your two and write the name of the person and the following on a 3x5 card that is provided – use one card for each person.  You will report on these in class the next period.

 

1. Name
2. Birth year- death year (or approximate)
3. Where were they born?
4. What from history was happening at this time and place?
5. What was their most important contribution?
6. When and where did they make this?

 

Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962):

George Washington Carver

Baker, S. Josephine (1873 - 1945)

Jonas Salk

Curie, Marie (1867-1934)

Edwin Hubble

McClintock, Barbara (1902 - 1992)

Edward Jenner

Avogadro, Armedeo (1776-1856):

C.F. Richter

Boyle, Robert (1627-91):

William Shockley

Copernicus, Nicolas (1473-1543).

Carolus Linnaeus

Darwin, Charles (1809-82):

James Watson & Francis Crick

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955):

Alfred Wegener

Faraday, Michael (1791-1867):

Josiah Gibbs

Fermi, Enrico (1901-54):

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).

Dmitre Mendeleev

Herschel, Sir William (1738-1822):

John Roebling

Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord (1824-1907):

Kepler, Johann (1571-1630):

Archimedes

Lyell, Sir Charles (1797-1875):

Louis Pasteur

Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822-84):

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727).

Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804):

Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937)

Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)

Ruth Ella Moore

Hopper, Grace (1906 - 1992)

Potter, Beatrix (1866 - 1943)

Clerk-Maxwell, James (1831-79):

Curie, Pierre (1859-1906)

Haldane, J. B. S. (1892-1964):

Volta, Alessandro, Count (1745-1827)

Huygens, Christiaan (1629-93):

Born, Max (1882-1970):

Alexander Fleming

Robert Goddard

Alan Turing

Lovelace, Lady Augusta Ada Byron (1815 - 1851)

Harvey, William (1578-1657):

Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-67):

Aristotle

Edward Alexander Bouchet