II. FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

A. SCIENTIST

What makes a person a scientist?

“A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a

systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more

restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses

the scientific method”

B. FAMOUS SCIENTIST

1. Marie and Pierre Curie

2. Jonas Salk

3. Alfred Nobel

4. John Dalton

5. Dmitri Mendeleev

6. Charles Darwin

French physicist

Studied radioactivity,

magnetism, and

crystallography

Ex: Curie Point – point at

which iron substances lose

their magnetic

characteristics

1. MARIE AND PIERRE CURIEPierre Curie 1859 -1906 Marie Curie 1867 - 1934

• Polish chemist & physicist

• Studied radioactivity, radium, polonium

• Ex: She won 2 Nobel Prizes for her work

• Found that radiation was able to kill tumors

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/scientists/mariepierrecurie.html

What is a disease today that

causes fear???

American chemist &

Biologist

Discovered the vaccine for

polio

Studied influenza, MS,

cancer, AIDS and autoimmune

diseases

2. JONAS SALK 1914 - 1995

http://www.famousscientists.org/jonas-salk/

3. ALFRED NOBEL 1833-1896

What does his name make you

think of?

Swedish inventor

Nitroglycerin (TNT),

explosives,

Nobel Foundation and Nobel

Prize

http://www.famousscientists.org/alfred-nobel/

4. JOHN DALTON 1766 - 1844

British chemist, meteorologist,

and physicist

Atomic theory – table of 6,

atoms, compounds

Recorded Color blindness

“daltonism”

Dalton’s Law

(Ptotal = Ppartial +

Ppartial…)

http://www.famousscientists.org/john-dalton/

5. DMITRI MENDELEEV 1834 – 1907

Russian Chemist

Atoms

Periodic Table of Elements

– elements based on

properties

Gases: Weather balloons

6. CHARLES DARWIN 1809 - 1882

British naturalist &

evolutionist

HMS Beagle voyage and

Galapagos Islands

On the Origin of Species by

Means of Natural Selection

Natural Selection and common

ancestry

Curie

Salk

Nobel

Dalton

Mendeleev

Darwin

CAN YOU REMEMBER?

Periodic Table

Gas Law

TNT

Radiation

Polio

Natural Selection

C. FAMOUS INVENTORS

Michael Faraday

Wilhelm Roentgen

Thomas Edison

British physicist and

chemist

Studied energy and

electromagentism

Invented the electric

motor

1. MICHAEL FARADAY 1 7 9 1 - 1 8 6 7

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinsmek/4673822534/sizes/m/in/photostream/

German physicist

Researched the light

“x-ray”

Produced the first x-

ray photographs (picture

that could penetrate the

human flesh)

2. WILHELM ROENTGEN 1 8 4 5 - 1 9 2 3

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmadden/34408227/sizes/m/in/photostream/

3. THOMAS EDISON 1847 -1931

1877 - Phonograph

1879 - “improved” the light

bulb

General Electric

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm