Famous Scientist

Who invented the first telephone?

• Albert Einstein

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Marie Curie

Who is famous for the Theory of Relativity ?

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

• Galileo Galilei

• Edwin Hubble

Nicolaus Copernicus

• thought that the sun was the centre

  of the Solar system, not earth.

• invented electrical batteries.

• is best known for discovering radioactivity

  which is used medically in x-rays.

• studied gravity and developed three laws of motion.

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Edwin Hubble

• invented the telephone.

• studied gravity.

• is best known for discovering radioactivity which is used medically in x-rays.

• showed that there are galaxies beyond our own, the Milky way.

This famous scientist is best known for discovering radioactivity which is used medically in x-rays, gamma rays, electron beams and to destroy cancer cells.

• Stephen Hawking

• Marie Curie

• Thomas Edison

• Mary Anning

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This scientist is one of the earliest fossil hunters and was the first person to uncover a full Ichthyosaurus skeleton (a fossil of an ancient reptile).

• Archimedes

• Anders Celsius

• Mary Anning

• Rosalind Franklin

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Timothy Berners-Lee

• invented the World Wide Web.

• invented the telephone.

• invented the light bulb.

• invented the telescope.

Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei

• were both chemists.

• were both astronomers.

• were both botanists.

• were both artists.

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To show that lightning was indeed electrical, this scientist flew a kite during a storm, to which he had attached a key. When the kite was struck by lightning, he felt electric sparks from the key.

• Albert Einstein

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Isaac Newton

• Benjamin Franklin

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Anders Celsius

• created the World Wide Web.

• created a temperature scale divided into small parts called degrees.

• discovered the structure of DNA.

• designed the AC (alternating current electric system).