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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

FAMOUS DISCOVERERS AND THEIR DISCOVERIES.

List of Famous Discoverers and their Discoveries




Discoverers Discovery

Albert Einstein Photon

Alfred Wegener Continental Drift

Amerigo Vespucci America

Antoine Lavoisier Conservation of Mass and Diamond a Form of Carbon

Antonio de Ulloa and Charles Wood Platinum

Bartolomeu Dias Africa

Benjamin Franklin +/- Electric Charges

Captain James Cook Antarctica

Carl Wilhelm Scheele Oxygen

Charles Darwin Evolution of Life

Charles Goodyear Vulcanized Rubber

Christiaan Huygens Saturn Rings

Clyde Tombaugh Pluto

DuPont Teflon

Edward Jenner Vaccination

Ernest Rutherford Proton

Friedrich Miescher DNA and RNA

Galileo Galilei Principle of Relativity and Moons of Jupiter

George Crum Potato Chips

Heinrich Hertz Electromagnetic Waves

Henri Becquerel Radioactivity

Henry Cavendish Hydrogen

Humphry Davy Sodium and Potassium

Isaac Newton Universal Gravitation

J. J. Thomson Electron

Jean Bernard Foucault Rotation of Earth

Johann Galle Neptune

Joseph Nicephore Niepce Photography

Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister Microorganisms Causing Infectious Disease

Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell Electromagnetism

Morris W. Travers and William Ramsay Neon, Krypton, Xenon

Nicolaus Copernicus Solar System and Earth

Niels Bohr Quantum Theory

Rabi Simantov, Solomon H. Snyder, John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz Endorphin

Robert Boyles Boyle's Law

Robert Hooke Cells in Living Things

Sir Alexander Fleming Penicillin

Sir F.G. Hopkins Vitamins

Sir Frederick G. Banting Insulin

Thomas A. Edison Phonograph

Vitus Jonassen Bering Alaska

Wilhelm Röntgen X-rays

Willard Libby Radiocarbon Dating

William Harvey Circulatory System

William Herschel Uranus



Without the contribution of these discoverers numerable cities, planets, facts, laws and theories would still exist but, remain unknown. Where would we be today without the contribution of these brilliant discoverers and their discoveries? Hats off to these great discoverers who have helped improve the standard of our lives, thus making it easier and way better!

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