1. FAMOUS SCIENTISTS GRADE 6 HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE,
Scientific Enterprise: The student will recognize that science and technology involve different kinds of work and engages men and women of all backgrounds.

2. One of the most influential scientists in history!
Isaac Newton: physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor & natural philosopher.
One of the most influential scientists in history!
England:

3. Lyme Regis, Great Britain
Mary Anning: discovered and sold fossils providing income for her family.
Anning's Ichthyosaurs discovered when she was 10 years old.
Anning's Plesiosaurs
The greatest fossilist the world ever knew
Lyme Regis, Great Britain

4. Anton van Leeuwenhoek:
. . . my work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
Antony van Leeuwenhoek.
Letter of June 12, 1716
Improved the microscope- first to describe single-celled organisms
Created over 400 microscopes, 9 of which are still used today
Father of Microbiology
Netherlands:

5. Louis Pasteur: microbiologist & chemist
He solved the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines.
Prevented milk & wine from going sour: Pasteurization!
France:

6. Rachel Carson: biologist, writer, ecologist
Wrote Silent Spring, a book that called for the testing of chemicals and questioned the dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides
The mother of the modern environmental movement.
Pennsylvania, USA

7. Father of Modern Geology
James Hutton: observer of the world around him, doctor of medicine, farmer, geologist
Loved scientific inquiry,
studied the surface of the earth
Father of Modern Geology
Scotland: 1726–1797

8. Albert Einstein: physicist
Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in 1921
Theory of Relativity
E=mc2
Germany:

9. George Cuvier: zoologist & paleontologist
Compared living animals with fossils
Established extinction as a fact
Father of Paleontology
France:

10. Ivan Pavlov: physiologist, psychologist, and physician
Classical conditioning using dogs
Pavlov’s Dog is often used to describe someone who merely reacts to a situation rather than use critical thinking
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1904
Russia:

11. Greatest ancient astronomical observer
Hipparchus:a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period.
Greatest ancient astronomical observer
Turkey: 190 BC-120 BC

12. Alexander Graham Bell: scientist, inventor, and innovator
Founding member of the National Geographic Society
Hydrofoils
Aeronautics
Inventor of the telephone
Scotland:

13. Greatest Mathematician
Archimedes: mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer
Invented …
pully
the Archimedean screw pumping
Hydrostatics
levers
Greatest Mathematician
of his age
Syracuse: 287 BC BC

14. Frederich Mohs: geologist, mineralologist
1 (Talc) 2 (Gypsum) 3 (Calcite) 4 (Fluorite) 5 (Apatite) 6 (Orthoclase Feldspar) 7 (Quartz) 8 (Topaz) 9 (Corundum) 10 (Diamond)
Developed Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness
Germany:

15. Robert Hooke:natural philosopher, inventor, architect
1st to study and record cells
Invented the iris diaphragm in cameras, the universal joint used in motor vehicles, the balance wheel in a watch
Father of Microscopy
England:

16. Jane Goodall: anthropologist, conservationist, primatologist
Studied Chimpanzees
England: Present

17. William Frederick Denning: astronomer
Discovered meteors, novas and comets
Gold Medal of the Global Astronomical Society in 1898
England:

18. The Undersea World of Jacques- TV series
Jacques Cousteau: explorer, oceanographer, inventor, researcher, ecologist, filmmaker
oceanographic technician
Calypso-ship
Exposed pollution, over-exploration of resources and coastal development
Served in the French navy in WWII
The Undersea World of Jacques- TV series
France:

19. T. Theodore Fujita: meteorologist
His research on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes and typhoons revolutionized knowledge of each.
Discovered downburst, microburst
Fujita Scale: differentiates tornado intensity and links tornado damage with wind speed
Japan:

20. Halley’s Comet-seen every 75 years
Edmond Halley: astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist and physicist.
Discovered the proper motion of the fixed stars,
studied the orbital movements of the moon and of comets
Halley’s Comet-seen every 75 years
England:

21. Charles Richter: seismologist, physicist,
Richter Magnitude Scale – compares the size of earthquakes
USA: