ACHIEVEMENTS
OF SOME GIANTS OF SCIENCE
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Name
of the Scientist |
Life-Span |
Scientific
Contributions |
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Pythagoras |
580-500
B.C. |
He
formulated basic laws of geometry. |
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Aristotle |
384-322
B.C. |
He divided the Universe into two
distinct regions. He also did the first systematic work on comparative
Biology. |
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Archimedes (Italian) |
287-212
B.C. |
Hé gave the famous Archimedes Principle for
Floating Bodies. |
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Hippocrates |
190-120
B.C. |
He gave importance to the position
of stars and made a comprehensive list of the relative shifts in the position
of. stars. |
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Johannes
Kepler (German) |
AD.
1571-1630 |
He was the first person to show
that the planets move around the sun in élliptic orbits. He gave laws of
planetary motion. |
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Galileo
Galilei (Italian) |
A.D.
1564-1642 |
He
developed the Astronomical Telescope. |
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Isaac
Newton (English) |
A.D.
1642-1727 |
He gave Laws of Motion and Laws of
Gravitation. He was a Professor of Mathematics. |
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Charles
Darwin (English) |
A.D.
1809-1892 |
He was a naturalist. He
revolutionized Biology. He gave the theories of Natural Selection in
Evolution. |
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Albert
Einstein (German) |
A.D.
1879-1955 |
He was a physicist. He revised
classical physics with his theory of General Relativity, |
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Francis
Victor (Austria) |
A.D.
1889-1964 |
Discovered
cosmic rays |
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James Watson (England) |
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Discovered the double helical structure of
DNA. |
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Stephen
Hawking (England) |
A.D.
1942-today |
He worked on Blackholes and gave
the concept of Quantum Gravity. He also worked on, theoretical cosmology. |
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