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Early Modern European Scientists

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Heliocentric model of the solar system.

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Galileo Galilei

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Improvements to the telescope, observations that supported the Copernican theory, and laws of motion.

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Johannes Kepler

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Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Laws of motion, universal gravitation, and calculus.

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Tycho Brahe

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Detailed astronomical observations which laid the foundation for Kepler’s laws.

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Andreas Vesalius

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Founder of modern human anatomy.

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Robert Boyle

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Boyle's Law relating volume and pressure of gases.

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Improvement of the microscope and discoveries in the field of microbiology.

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William Harvey

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Description of the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart.

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Michael Faraday

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Electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and the laws of electrolysis.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Co-inventor of calculus, refinement of the binary number system, and various philosophical works.

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Law of conservation of mass, identification of oxygen and hydrogen, and help systematize chemical nomenclature.

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Carl Linnaeus

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Development of the Linnaean taxonomy which underpins the system of classifying organisms in biology.

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Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham)

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Foundations of modern optics, experimental physics, and scientific methodology.

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René Descartes

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Cartesian coordinate system, which laid the foundation for analytic geometry.

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Christiaan Huygens

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Wave theory of light, construction of the first pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn's moon Titan.

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Evangelista Torricelli

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Invention of the barometer and advancements in fluid mechanics.

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Robert Hooke

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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.

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Alessandro Volta

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Invention of the voltaic pile and discovery of methane.

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Gregor Mendel

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Laws of inheritance and the foundations of modern genetics.

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Georg Ohm

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Ohm's Law which states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points.

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James Clerk Maxwell

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Maxwell's equations which describe the fundamentals of electricity and magnetism.

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André-Marie Ampère

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Formulation of Ampère's law which relates magnetic fields to the electric currents that produce them.

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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Creation of the Periodic Table of Elements, which organized elements according to their atomic mass and properties.

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Robert Hooke

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Discovery of the cell, the law of elasticity (Hooke's Law), contributions to astronomy, and fossil work.

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Léon Foucault

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Demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, which provides visual proof of Earth's rotation, and measurements of the speed of light.

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Henri Becquerel

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Discovery of radioactivity through his work with uranium salts.

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Wilhelm Roentgen

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Discovery of X-rays.

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Amedeo Avogadro

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Avogadro's Law states that equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules.

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Marie Curie

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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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