Charles Darwin
Formulated the theories of evolution and natural selection
Niels Bohr
Proposed a revolutionary model of atomic structure
Erwin Schrödinger
Founding father of quantum mechanics, he imagined the "Schrödinger’s Cat" thought experiment
Max Planck
Founder of quantum mechanics, he introduced the concept of quanta of energy
Hippocrates
Father of Medicine
James Clerk Maxwell
Pioneer of statistical physics and electromagnetism
Tim Berners-Lee
Invented the World Wide Web
Werner Heisenberg
Demonstrated the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics
Thomas Edison
Founder of General Electric, he perfected the already existing model of the light bulb
Nicolaus Copernicus
Developed and defended the theory of heliocentrism, according to which the Earth orbits the Sun
Galileo
Father of modern astronomy and a pioneer of astronomical observation
Robert Boyle
One of the fathers of modern chemistry
Benjamin Franklin
Invented the lightning rod
Johannes Gutenberg
Invented the printing press
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone
Johannes Kepler
Discovered the three laws governing planetary motion
Thales
Formulated the famous Thales' Theorem
Richard Feynman
Worked on quantum electrodynamics, quarks and superfluid helium
Albert Einstein
Father of the theory of relativity and a major contributor to modern physics
Carl Linnaeus
Established the binomial system of nomenclature
Stephen William Hawking
Conducted research on black holes and cosmology
Ada Lovelace
Pioneer of computer science, she created the first computer programme
André-Marie Ampère
Founder of electromagnetism
Gregor Mendel
Father of genetics and of the laws of inheritance
James Watt
Perfected the already existing model of the steam engine
Louis Pasteur
Pioneer of microbiology, he developed the rabies vaccine
Marie Curie
Discovered polonium and radium, two radioactive chemical elements
Enrico Fermi
Created the very first nuclear reactor
Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin
Isaac Newton
Founder of classical mechanics, he formulated the law of universal gravitation
Nikola Tesla
Enabled the adoption of alternating current
Pythagoras
Formulated the famous Pythagorean Theorem
René Descartes
Father of modern rationalism, he invented the Cartesian coordinate system
Aristotle
Father of logic and metaphysics
Rosalind Franklin
Contributed to the discovery of the helical structure of DNA
Robert Hooke
Formulated the law of elasticity, and published a book illustrating his microscopic observations
Leonardo da Vinci
Forerunner of the scientific method based on hypothesis, observation and experimentation
Leonhard Euler
Major contributor to modern analysis and to many fields of mathematics
Michael Faraday
Pioneer of electromagnetism
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Invented the modern mercury thermometer
Blaise Pascal
Invented the first mechanical calculator (the Pascaline)
Euclid
Founder of Euclidean geometry, he also introduced Euclidean division
Daniel Bernoulli
One of the founders of hydrodynamics, and author of "Bernoulli’s Theorem"
Alan Turing
Inventor of the computer and pioneer of artificial intelligence
Antoine Lavoisier
One of the fathers of modern chemistry
Archimedes
Father of static mechanics, and author of the "Principle of Archimedes"
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Major contributor to algebra and geometry, he is known as the "Prince of Mathematicians"
Alessandro Volta
Invented the first electric battery (the voltaic pile)
Dmitri Mendeleev
Established the periodic classification of the elements
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