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Nicolaus Copernicus
Heliocentric model of the solar system.
Galileo Galilei
Improvements to the telescope, observations that supported the Copernican theory, and laws of motion.
Johannes Kepler
Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Sir Isaac Newton
Laws of motion, universal gravitation, and calculus.
Tycho Brahe
Detailed astronomical observations which laid the foundation for Kepler’s laws.
Andreas Vesalius
Founder of modern human anatomy.
Robert Boyle
Boyle's Law relating volume and pressure of gases.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Improvement of the microscope and discoveries in the field of microbiology.
William Harvey
Description of the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart.
Michael Faraday
Electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and the laws of electrolysis.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Co-inventor of calculus, refinement of the binary number system, and various philosophical works.
Antoine Lavoisier
Law of conservation of mass, identification of oxygen and hydrogen, and help systematize chemical nomenclature.
Carl Linnaeus
Development of the Linnaean taxonomy which underpins the system of classifying organisms in biology.
Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham)
Foundations of modern optics, experimental physics, and scientific methodology.
René Descartes
Cartesian coordinate system, which laid the foundation for analytic geometry.
Christiaan Huygens
Wave theory of light, construction of the first pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn's moon Titan.
Evangelista Torricelli
Invention of the barometer and advancements in fluid mechanics.
Robert Hooke
Law of elasticity (Hooke's Law), suggesting that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance is proportional to that distance.
Alessandro Volta
Invention of the voltaic pile and discovery of methane.
Gregor Mendel
Laws of inheritance and the foundations of modern genetics.
Georg Ohm
Ohm's Law which states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points.
James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell's equations which describe the fundamentals of electricity and magnetism.
André-Marie Ampère
Formulation of Ampère's law which relates magnetic fields to the electric currents that produce them.
Dmitri Mendeleev
Creation of the Periodic Table of Elements, which organized elements according to their atomic mass and properties.
Robert Hooke
Discovery of the cell, the law of elasticity (Hooke's Law), contributions to astronomy, and fossil work.
Léon Foucault
Demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, which provides visual proof of Earth's rotation, and measurements of the speed of light.
Henri Becquerel
Discovery of radioactivity through his work with uranium salts.
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovery of X-rays.
Amedeo Avogadro
Avogadro's Law states that equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules.
Marie Curie
Discovery of the radioactive elements polonium and radium, development of the theory of radioactivity, and the techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes.
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