Name:________________________________________Date:___________Class#:______
Ms. Desmarais
Tombstone Science Project
TOMBSTONE SCIENCE PROJECT
Scientists are important for the world because they help people understand the
way the world works in very specific ways. Scientists' work leads to solutions to
many of the most important problems we face, and offers understandings into
reality that enriches and expands our lives. Human beings have spent a lot of time
figuring out how to stay alive and be happy, and science has been a powerful tool
for achieving that goal by using science to describe, define, investigate and
analyze everything around us. Therefore, it is our duty to pay the Scientists’ of
the past tribute. You will choose a Scientist to research and study. You will
create a tombstone including the required elements noted below and you will
present your project to the class.
The tombstone must include all of the following elements:
o Scientist Name
o Birth and Death Dates
o Famous Quote
o Picture of Scientist
o Scientist Accomplishments
o Country of Origin (Map will be helpful)
o Interesting facts about the Scientist
o Essay about the Scientist
o Introduction
o Body (3 paragraphs)
o Conclusion
Have fun and be creative!!
DUE DATES:
 Essay Prewriting Due Monday, October 5, 2015
 Project and Final Essay Due Monday, October 13, 2015
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Aage Bohr
Ada Lovelace
Adalbert Czerny
Agnes Arber
Ahmed Zewail
Al-Battani
Alan Turing
Albert Abraham
Michelson
Albert Einstein
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Albrecht von Haller
Aldo Leopold
Alessandro Volta
Alexander Bain
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Von Humboldt
Alfred Binet
Alfred Blalock
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Wegener
Amedeo Avogadro
Anders Celsius
André Marie Ampère
Andreas Vesalius
Angel Alcala
Antoine Lavoisier
Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek
Antonio Meucci
Antony Hewish
Archimedes
Aristarchus
Aristotle
Arnold Orville Beckman
Arnold Sommerfeld
Arthur Eddington
Artturi Virtanen
Avicenna
B. F. Skinner
Barbara McClintock
Beatrix Potter
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Thompson
Bernardo Houssay
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Claude Levi-Strauss
Clyde Tombaugh
Daniel Bernoulli
David Bohm
David Hilbert
Dian Fossey
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dorothy Hodgkin
E. O. Wilson
Edmund Halley
Edward Jenner
Edward Teller
Edwin Herbert Land
Edwin Hubble
Elizabeth Blackwell
Emil Adolf Behring
Emil Fischer
Emil Kraepelin
Emile Berliner
Emmy Noether
Enrico Fermi
Eratosthenes
Ernest Rutherford
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Mach
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Werner von
Siemens
Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Schrodinger
Euclid
Evangelista Torricelli
Fibonacci
Francesco Redi
Francis Bacon
Francis Crick
Francis Galton
Franz Boas
Frederick Gowland
Hopkins
Frederick Sanger
Frederick Soddy
Friedrich August Kekulé
Friedrich Wöhler
Fritz Haber
Galen
Galileo Galilei
Gene Shoemaker
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Bill Nye
Blaise Pascal
Brahmagupta
Brian Cox
C. V. Raman
Carl Bosch
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Sagan
Carolus Linnaeus
Charles Babbage
Charles Darwin
Charles Lyell
Charles Sherrington
Charles-Augustin de
Coulomb
• Chen-Ning Yang
• Christiaan Huygens
• Christiane NussleinVolhard
• Clarence Birdseye
Claude Bernard
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Georg Ohm
George Beadle
George Gamow
George Gaylord Simpson
George Washington
Carver
Georges-Louis Leclerc,
Comte de Buffon
Gertrude Elion
Gerty Theresa Cori
Glenn Seaborg
Gottfried Leibniz
Gottlieb Daimler
Grace Murray Hopper
Gregor Mendel
Guglielmo Marconi
Gustav Kirchoff
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Hans Bethe
Hans Christian Oersted
Hans Selye
Harriet Quimby
Hedy Lamarr
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heinrich Hertz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Henri Becquerel
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henry Bessemer
Henry Cavendish
Henry Ford
Henry Moseley
Hermann Rorschach
Hermann von Helmholtz
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Humphry Davy
Ibn Rushd
Inge Lehmann
Irene Joliot-Curie
Isaac Newton
Ivan Pavlov
J. Hans D. Jensen
J. J. Thomson
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Willard Gibbs
Jacques Cousteau
Jagadish Chandra Bose
James Chadwick
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James Clerk Maxwell
James Dwight Dana
James Hutton
James Prescott Joule
James Watson
James Watt
Jan Baptist von Helmont
Jane Goodall
Jane Marcet
Jean Piaget
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Johannes Kepler
John Archibald Wheeler
John Bardeen
John Dalton
John Locke
John Logie Baird
John Napier
John Needham
John Ray
John von Neumann
Jonas Salk
Joseph Banks
Joseph Henry
Joseph Lister
Joseph Priestley
Justus von Liebig
K. Eric Drexler
Karl Landsteiner
• 1619 – Kepler publishes his third law of planetary motion relating the time taken for a
planet to orbit the sun with its distance from the sun.
• 1621 – Willebrord Snell discovers the laws of light refraction.
• 1628 – Kepler publishes his planetary tables, the calculations for which would have
taken years without Napier’s logarithms.
• 1629 – Nicolaus Cabeus finds there are two types of electric charge and notes both
attractive and repulsive forces acting.
• 1632 – William Oughtred invents the slide rule. With the combined power of
logarithms and slide rules, calculation speeds explode.
• 1632 – Galileo Galilei finds that the laws of motion are the same in all inertial
reference frames.
• 1637 – Rene Descartes invents the Cartesian coordinate system – i.e. the x-y axis for
graphs, allowing changes in quantities with time to be plotted.
• 1645 – Blaise Pascal invents the adding machine.
• 1652 – Thomas Bartholin discovers the human lymphatic system.
• 1662 – Robert Boyle publishes his law of pressure and volume in gases.
• 1654 – Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat invent the mathematics of probability and
statistics.
• 1656 – Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn’s rings after building a new telescope –
the world’s best.
• 1657 – Pierre de Fermat uses the principle of least time in optics.
• 1658 – Jan Swammerdam discovers the red blood cell.
• c1660 – Otto von Guerkicke builds a rotating sphere from which sparks fly. Static
electricity can now be generated. He demonstrates electrostatic repulsion.
• c1660 – Robert Hooke discovers that the extension of a spring or elastic material is
directly proportional to the applied force.
• 1661 – Robert Boyle writes The Skeptical Chymist, with his manifesto for the science
of chemistry, explaining the roles of elements and compounds, and telling scientists
they must carefully observe, record and report scientific data.
• 1633 – James Gregory publishes his design for the world’s first reflecting telescope.
• 1664 – Robert Hooke uses a microscope to observe the cellular basis of life.
• 1665 – Isaac Newton invents calculus – the mathematics of change – without which
we could not understand the modern world. He keeps it secret, using it to develop
theories which he eventually publishes in 1687.
• 1666 – Isaac Newton discovers that light is made up of all of the colors of the
rainbow, which are refracted by different amounts in a glass prism.
• 1667 – Isaac Newton builds the world’s first reflecting telescope.
• 1668 – John Wallis discovers the principle of conservation of momentum – one of the
foundations of modern physics.
• 1669 – Hennig Brand becomes the first identifiable person to have discovered and
isolated a new chemical element – phosphorus.
• 1674 – Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms.
• 1675 – Robert Boyle shows that electric repulsion and attraction act in a vacuum.
• 1676 – Ole Christensen Roemer measures the speed of light for the first time.
• 1676 – Christiann Huygens finds light can be refracted and diffracted and should be
considered to be a wave-like phenomenon.
• 1684 – Gottfried Leibniz publishes his calculus, which he discovered independently of
Isaac Newton. He has been working on calculus for the past decade.
• 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes one of the most important scientific books ever:
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, revolutionizing physics and our
understanding of gravity
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• Fibonacci: Rebirth of Western mathematics
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Joseph Henry: Master of electromagnetic science
Antoine Lavoisier: Revolutionized chemistry
Emmy Noether: Unlocked a secret of the universe
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: The father of microbiology
Ernest Rutherford: Discovered the atomic nucleus and proton
J. J. Thomson: Discovered the electron
Alexander Fleming: Discovered penicillin and more
Jacques Cousteau: Marine pioneer, inventor, Oscar winner
Willard Gibbs: Father of chemical thermodynamics
Sergei Winogradsky: Discovered chemosynthetic life forms
Inge Lehmann: Discovered our planet's solid inner core
Aage Bohr: Explained the structure of the atomic nucleus
Alfred Wegener: Discovered continental drift
Chen-Ning Yang: Thought the unthinkable; broke parity
Johannes Kepler: Solved the mystery of the planets
William Harvey: Explained blood circulation for the first time
Glenn Seaborg: Record breaking discoverer of elements
Isaac Newton: Gravity, light, the laws of motion and calculus
Carolus Linnaeus: Organized our view of the natural world
Thales of Miletus: The first scientist in history
Ada Lovelace: Mother of computing science
Amedeo Avogadro: A founder of atomic-molecular chemistry
Pierre de Fermat: So much more than his famous last theorem
Henry Moseley: Discovered the periodic table's true basis
Galen: Shaped medicine for 1500 years
Nicolaus Copernicus: Started the scientific revolution
Aristotle: Genius and enduring errors
Marguerite Perey: Discoverer of francium
Luis Alvarez: Dinosaur death by meteorite impact
Michael Faraday: Experimental genius; electromagnetic pioneer
David Hilbert: Driving force in 20th century mathematics
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Father of modern neuroscience
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Black hole formation
John Dalton: Dalton's Atomic Theory is the basis of chemistry
Robert Hooke: Discovered cells; revealed the microscopic world
Robert Bunsen: Discoverer of elements & antidote to arsenic
Benjamin Franklin: Proved electricity is a force of nature
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor of the telephone
Marie Curie: Discoverer of elements. Radioactivity pioneer
Galileo Galilei: The father of modern science
Alfred R. Wallace: Discoverer of evolution by natural selection
Aristarchus: First to say that Earth orbits the sun
Jane Marcet: Inspirational chemistry
Pythagoras: The first rigorous mathematics
Alessandro Volta: Electrical pioneer. Inventor of the battery
James Watt: Father of the industrial revolution
Gene Shoemaker: First astro-geologist. Comet discoverer
Brahmagupta: Discoverer of zero
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Archimedes: The greatest scientist ever?
Eratosthenes: Accurately calculated Earth's size 2500yr ago
Stephanie Kwolek: Inventor of kevlar
James Clerk Maxwell: Unified electricity, magnetism & light
Albert Einstein: Theories of relativity and E = mc2
Gregor Mendel: Founder of the science of genetics
Dmitri Mendeleev: The periodic table discovered in a dream
James Chadwick: Discoverer of the neutron
Famous Scientists
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Katharine Burr Blodgett
Kip S. Thorne
Konrad Lorenz
Kristian Birkeland
Lee De Forest
Leo Szilard
Leon Foucault
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonhard Euler
Lester R. Brown
Linus Pauling
Lise Meitner
Louis Agassiz
Louis de Broglie
Louis Pasteur
Lucretius
Ludwig Boltzmann
Luigi Galvani
Luis Alvarez
Luther Burbank
Lynn Margulis
Mae Carol Jemison
Marcello Malpighi
Marguerite Perey
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Maria Mitchell
Marie Curie
Mario Molina
Mary Anning
Max Born
Max Delbruck
Max Planck
Max von Laue
Michael E. Brown
Michael Faraday
Michio Kaku
Mohammad Abdus Salam
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Murray Gell-Mann
Niccolo Leoniceno
Nicholas Culpeper
Nicolaus Copernicus
Niels Bohr
Nikola Tesla
Noam Chomsky
Omar Khayyam
Otto Hahn
Paul Dirac
Paul Ehrlich
Pearl Kendrick
Percy Lavon Julian
Peter Debye
Pierre Curie
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Pythagoras
Rachel Carson
René Descartes
Richard Feynman
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Robert Bosch
Robert Boyle
Robert Brown
Robert Bunsen
Robert Goddard
Robert Hooke
Robert Koch
Ronald Fisher
Ronald Ross
Rosalind Franklin
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
Rudolf Virchow
Salim Ali
Sally Ride
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Sergei Winogradsky
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Sigmund Freud
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Stephanie Kwolek
Stephen Hawking
Steven Chu
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Svante Arrhenius
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Thabit ibn Qurra
Thales
Theodor Schwann
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Willis
Tim Noakes
Timothy John Berners-Lee
Tycho Brahe
Ukichiro Nakaya
Virginia Apgar
Vladimir Vernadsky
Walter Schottky
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe
Werner Heisenberg
Wernher Von Braun
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Wilhelm Ostwald
Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Wundt
Willard Frank Libby
William Buckland
William Harvey
William Herschel
William Hopkins
William Ramsay
William Smith
William Thomson
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
Zora Neale Hurston
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