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1. Eminent Scientists
Sarah Jones

2. Albert Einstein - Physics

3. Einstein Quotes
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for
tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried
anything new.”

4. Leonardo da Vinci - Physics & Biology

9. Leonardo da Vinci
• Was an artist – he painted the Mona Lisa
• Da Vinci was one of the greatest scientists to
ever live.
• He was very interested in medicine and
conducted autopsies.
• He was a gifted physicist and inventor
– He drew aeroplanes, parachutes
and a type of helicopter hundreds
of years before they were actually
constructed.

10. Alexander Fleming - Biology

11. Alexander Fleming
• Bacteriologist
• During World War I he set up a battlefield
hospital in France.
• He encountered infections so drastic that
soldiers died quickly from them.
• After the war Fleming searched for an
effective antiseptic.

12. • In 1928 he was straightening up a pile of Petri
dishes where he had been growing bacteria.
• He noticed a dish had some mould growing on it.
• All around the mould the bacteria had been killed.
• Dr Fleming took a sample of
the mould and found it was
from the penicillium family.
• Fleming produced the
world’s first antibiotic.

13. Charles Darwin - Biology

14. Charles Darwin - Biology
“Darwin's theory of evolution explains how
species of living things have changed over
geological time. The theory is supported by
evidence from fossils, and by the rapid
changes that can be seen to occur in
microorganisms such as antibiotic-resistant
bacteria. Many species have become
extinct in the past and the extinction of
species continues to happen.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa_pre_2011/evolution/evolutionrev1.shtml

16. Antoine Lavoisier - Chemistry

17. Antoine Lavoisier
• Referred to as the ‘Father of Modern Chemistry’.
• In 1788 he recognised and named oxygen. He
also discovered that water is made up of oxygen
and hydrogen.
• He showed that in respiration, oxygen is
consumed and carbon dioxide is given off.
• Lavoisier showed that all substances can exist in
three states: SOLID, LIQUID and GAS.

18. Marie Curie - Chemistry

19. Curie Quotes
"I believe that Science has great beauty. A
scientist in his laboratory is not a mere
technician; he is also a child confronting natural
phenomena that impress him as though they
were fairy tales."
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be
understood."

20. Michael Faraday - Physics

21. Michael Faraday
• In 1831 he discovered that
rotating a copper disk
wrapped in wire between
the poles of a magnet
would produce an electrical
current.
• He developed a primitive
electric motor – ALL
electrical appliances in the
modern world are a
product of this scientific
development.

22. Nikola Tesla – Chemistry & Physics

23. Vice President Behrend of the Institute of
Electrical Engineers "Were we to seize and
eliminate from our industrial world the result of
Mr. Tesla's work, the wheels of industry would
cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would
stop, our towns would be dark and our mills
would be idle and dead. His name marks an
epoch in the advance of electrical science." Mr.
Behrend ended his speech with a paraphrase of
Pope's lines on Newton: "Nature and nature's
laws lay hid by night. God said 'Let Tesla be' and
all was light."

24. Galileo Galilei - Physics

25. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml
In 1609, Galileo heard about the invention of
the telescope in Holland. Without having seen
an example, he constructed a superior version
and made many astronomical discoveries. These
included mountains and valleys on the surface
of the moon, sunspots, the four largest moons
of the planet Jupiter and the phases of the
planet Venus. His work on astronomy made him
famous and he was appointed court
mathematician in Florence.

26. In 1614, Galileo was accused of heresy for his
support of the Copernican theory that the sun
was at the centre of the solar system. This was
revolutionary at a time when most people
believed the Earth was in this central position. In
1616, he was forbidden by the church from
teaching or advocating these theories.

27. In 1632, he was again condemned for heresy
after his book 'Dialogue Concerning the Two
Chief World Systems' was published. This set out
the arguments for and against the Copernican
theory in the form of a discussion between two
men. Galileo was summoned to appear before
the Inquisition in Rome. He was convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment, later reduced to
permanent house arrest at his villa in Arcetri,
south of Florence. He was also forced to publicly
withdraw his support for Copernican theory.

28. Johannes Kepler - Physics

29. Johannes Kepler
• In 1609 as an astronomer Kepler discovered
that the planets have an elliptical orbit.
• He studied optics which is the science of light.
• This included how and why telescopes
magnify things and how the human eye
works.
• He was the first to explain
why spectacles worked.

30. Sir Isaac Newton – Physics
Why do objects fall down (never up)?
Why are big objects (generally) heavier than
little objects – and what is weight anyway?

31. • Newton explained gravity.
• He developed a superior form of telescope.
• Newton investigated the nature of light and
discovered that sunlight is made of different
colours.
• Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and
violet.
ROY – G – BIV
• His most famous law ‘For every action there is
an equal and opposite reaction’.