The HISTORY of SCIENCE
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1953 The Discovery of DNA: Crick, Watson, Wilkins & Franklin
1912-1954 Alan Turing: "Father of the Computer"  
1901-1976 Werner Karl Heisenberg: pioneer of quantum mechanics  
1900-1979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: pioneer woman scientist who unveiled the secrets of the Sun  
1879-1955 Albert Einstein: say no more!  
1868-1953 Robert Andrews Millikan: made fundamental discoveries about atomic structure  
1867-1934 Michael & Marie Curie and the understanding of radioactivity
1845-1923 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the discovery of X-rays
1809-1888 Charles Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle and the Theory of Evolution  
1795-1804 Nicolas Appert and his invention of airtight food preservation
1791-1867 Michael Faraday: the "father" of electricity
1780-1872 Mary Fairfax Somerville: Scottish mathematician, geographer, science writer and theoretical astronomer
1769-1859 Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. "father" of ecology & environmentalism  
  The Discovery of Calculus and the Newton/Leibnitz "Calculus Controversy"  
1642-1726 Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientists who ever lived  
287 - 212 BC Archimedes - one of the greatest mathematicians in history