Name some scientists that made major discovieries?

Question

could you name a few, so that I can get my project started? They had to have done something interesting that I can write about. preferrably in the field of medicine or science.

Answer 1

jonas salk-polio vaccine

pennicline guy?? i don't rember his name

Answer 2

wow there are so many that you could choose from but i will give you a few that might give you some ideas.

Newton is a good choice and you can find loads of information on the web. Same with Mendel, Einstein, Madame Curie. These are perhaps the 4 more well known ones. There are couse loads more, why not try putting in a question that might interest you in ask.com like who discovered..... and finding the name of the scientist involved and taking it from there?

Answer 3

Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek - the microscope.

Willem Kolff - the kidney dialisis machine.

Alexander Fleming - penicillin.

Wilhelm Röntgen - the existance of x-ray

William D. Coolidge - the x-ray tube.

Charles Gerhardt - synthetic asperin

James Watt - The (working) steam engines

Isaac Newton - gravity & the laws of motion

Albert Einstein - General Relativity, Special Relativity.

Lene Hau - That light could be stopped.

Heike Kamerling - Superconductivity.

Brothers Wright - Flight

Francois Isaac de Rivaz - The internal combustion engine.

Thomas Edison - The light bulb.

Answer 4

Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton,

Answer 5

Rosalind Franklin DNA

Nikola Tesla Radio

Answer 6

Charles Darwin, Niels Bohr, Galileo, Isaac Newton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Hooke, Carolus Linnaeus, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Rutherford, or Chevalier de Lamarck. Hope this helps :-)

Answer 7

Einstein

Geiger

Newton

Rutherford

There are a LOT.

Answer 8

Thomas Alva Edison

Madam Currie