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Elementary Science Program Important Scientists Marie Curie 1867-1934 Polish physicist and chemist Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Arthur Sasse / AFP-Getty Images file Nobel Prize winning German theoretical physicist Thomas Edison 1847-1931 American inventor, scientist and businessman George Washington Carver 1864-1943 American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor Jane Goodall 1934- British anthropologist and author Rachel Carson 1907-1964 American marine biologist Anders Celsius 1701-1744 Swedish astronomer who developed Celsius scale of temperature measurement and recognized auroras Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686-1736 German physicist and chemist -  mercury thermometer temperature scale John Dalton 1766-1844 English chemist who discovered colorblindness, worked with atoms, and made homemade weather instruments Sir Francis Beaufort 1774-1857 Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 Scottish engineer and inventor of the telephone Sally Ride 1951- American astronomer Grace Murray Hopper 1906-1992 American computer scientist and Navy Admiral Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Italian astronomer Buys Ballot 1817-1890 Dutch chemist and meteorologist - wind and air pressure area coorelation Wangari Maathai 1940- Kenyan Nobel Prize winning environmentalist Mary Leakey 1913-1996 English anthropologist Barbara McClintock 1902-1992 American geneticist who won the Nobel Prize Charles Darwin 1809-1882 English geologist who developed the theory of evolution Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica' Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806 Astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 Polish astronomer and mathematician Edwin Hubble 1889-1953 American astronomer demonstrated the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way Sir Issac Newton 1643-1727 English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian Samuel Morse 1791-1872 American inventor of single wire telegraph and Morse Code S.P.L. Sorenson 1868-1939 Danish biochemist (pH scale) Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1906-1972 German physicist - atom structure Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1943- Irish astronomer and physicist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev 1834-1907 Russian chemist and inventor- table of elements Antoine Lavoisier 1743-1794 France - combustion J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904-1967 American theoretical physicist and professor of physics YOU!!!! Daniel Bernoulli 1700-1782 Dutch/Swiss mathematician Bernoulli's law - low air pressure in a hurricane

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