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WorksheetsFamous Scientists throughout History
Total questions: 52
Worksheet time: 40mins
Which Polish scientist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
Marie Curie
Otto Hahn
Lise Meitner
Rosalind Franklin
Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Niels Bohr
Which English theoretical physicist authored The Theory of Everything, and A Brief History of Time?
Stephen Hawking
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Albert Einstein
Ernest Rutherford
Who studied space and hosted a TV show called "Cosmos"?
Carl Sagan
Albert Einstein
Edward James
Ben Watson
Which classes of animal did Carl Linnaeus create? (PICK THREE ANSWERS).
Mammals
Toads
Birds
Worms
Snakes
Who discovered DNA could exist in 2 forms?
Aristotle
Jane Goodall
Rosalind Franklin
Gregor Mendel
Who created the naming system we use to organize life on earth?
Aristotle
Stephen Hawking
Hippocrates
Carolus Linnaeus
Which scientists are known for their work on DNA? (multiple answers)
Rosalind Franklin
Francis Crick
James Watson
Gregor Mendel
Who is considered the father of Western Medicine?
Hippocrates
Aristotle
James Watson
Plato
Who was the first human to go into outer space and orbit the earth?
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Guion Bluford
Yuri Gagarin
Sally Ride
Who was the first African American Woman in outer space?
Mae Jemison
Alan Shepard
Guion Bluford
Gus Grissom
Sally Ride
Who was the first American astronaut tp travel to oute space?
Mae Jemison
Alan Shepard
Guion Bluford
Gus Grisom
Sally Ride
What is the name of the "Hidden Figure" who was the mathematician and the supervisor?
Mary Jackson
Katherine Goble
Dorothy Vaughn
Vivian Mitchell
Which one of the "Hidden Figures" obtained an engineering degree?
Mary Jackson
Katherine Johnson
Mae Jemison
Dorothy Vaughan
Which astronomer created the 3 laws of planetary motion?
Bruno
Einstein
Copernicus
Kepler
Which Greek astronomer's model was the model accepted for nearly 1300 years?
Aristotle's
Ptolemy's
Eratosthenes'
Aristarchus of Samos
Built models to determine that DNA was a double helix shape with base pairs A-T and G-C in rungs between the sugar/phosphate backbone of DNA.
Watson & Crick
Franklin
Wilkins
Pauling
Chargaff
Provided clear x-ray crystallography images of DNA
Watson & Crick
Franklin
Wilkins
Pauling
Chargaff
Who laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining the law of gravity and the laws of motion in 1867?
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Antoine Lavoisier
Who painted this?
Vincent Van Gogh
Leonardo da Vinci
Caravaggio
unknown artist
Invented much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, and made important discoveries in calculus, analysis, graph theory, physics, astronomy, and many other topics.
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783)
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
Arthur Cayley (1821 – 1895)
Was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for proving Pythagoras’ Theorem, but made many other mathematical and scientific discoveries.
Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – 546 BCE)
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – 195 BCE)
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – 495 BCE)
Heron of Alexandria (c. 10 – 70 CE)
Was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the number sequence named after him: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …
Leonardo Pisano, Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)
Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783)
Johann Lambert (1728 – 1777)
François Viète (1540 – 1603)
Calculated the circumference of the Earth, measured the tilt of the Earth’s axis of rotation, estimated the distance to the sun, and created some of the first maps of the world.
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – 495 BCE)
Euclid of Alexandria (300 BCE)
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – 195 BCE)
Democritus (c. 460 – 370 BCE)
Was a Greek mathematician and is often called the father of geometry. He book The Elements first introduced Euclidean geometry, defines its five axioms, and contains many important proofs in geometry and number theory – including that there are infinitely many prime numbers.
Arhimede (c. 287 - 212 î.Hr.)
Euclid of Alexandria (around 300 BCE)
Aristotle (c. 384 – 322 BCE)
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – 495 BCE)
He discovered many concepts of calculus and worked in geometry, analysis and mechanics.
While taking a bath, discovered a way to determine the volume of irregular objects using the amount of water they displaced when submerged. He was so excited by this discovery that he ran out on the street, still undressed, yelling “Eureka!” (Greek for “I have found it!”).
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – 195 BCE)
Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)
Archimedes (c. 287 – 212 BCE)
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
Was arguably the greatest mathematician in history. According to legend, he corrected a mistake in his father‘s accounting at the age of 3, and found a way to quickly add up all integers from 1 to 100 at the age of 8.
François Viète (1540 – 1603)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855)
Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)
Diophantus
was a French mathematician and philosopher, and one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. He is credited with the first use of superscripts for powers or exponents, and the cartesian coordinate system is named after him.
René Descartes (1596 – 1650)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789 – 1857)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 – 1813)
Who was Marie Daly ?
Marie Daly worked at NASA.
She had six children that also became Chemist.
She was the first African American Phd in Chemistry in USA
Who is Valerie Thomas ?
She designed a computer program for astronaut training at NASA .
She was one of two women to major in Physics at Morgan University.
She was the first African American to excel in the field of Entomology.
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson ?
He loved to study stars at a young age.
He majored in Astrophysics at Harvard University.
He authored 15 books on the Cosmos.
