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