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"
1908-1962
Lev Landau: made significant contributions to many areas of theoretical physics and astronomy
1908-1991
John Bardeen: with William Schockley and Walter Brittain invented the transistor
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
1854-1923
Hertha Ayrton: renowned scientist in the field of electricity who was much admired by Einstein
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
276 - 195 BC*
Eratosthenes: a polymath who calculated the circumference of Earth