1. II. FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

2. A. SCIENTIST  What makes a person a scientist?  “A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method”systematicknowledgescientific method

3. B. FAMOUS SCIENTIST  1. Marie and Pierre Curie  2. Jonas Salk  3. Alfred Nobel  4. John Dalton  5. Dmitri Mendeleev  6. Charles Darwin

4.  French physicist  Studied radioactivity, magnetism, and crystallography  Ex: Curie Point – point at which iron substances lose their magnetic characteristics 1. MARIE AND PIERRE CURIE Pierre Curie 1859 -1906 Marie Curie 1867 - 1934 Polish chemist & physicist Studied radioactivity, radium, polonium Ex: She won 2 Nobel Prizes for her work Found that radiation was able to kill tumors http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/scientists/mariepierrecurie.html

5.  What is a disease today that causes fear???  American chemist & Biologist  Discovered the vaccine for polio  Studied influenza, MS, cancer, AIDS and autoimmune diseases 2. JONAS SALK 1914 - 1995 http://www.famousscientists.org/jonas-salk/

6. 3. ALFRED NOBEL 1833-1896  What does his name make you think of?  Swedish inventor  Nitroglycerin (TNT), explosives,  Nobel Foundation and Nobel Prize http://www.famousscientists.org/alfred-nobel/

7. 4. JOHN DALTON 1766 - 1844  British chemist, meteorologist, and physicist  Atomic theory – table of 6, atoms, compounds  Recorded Color blindness “daltonism”  Dalton’s Law (Ptotal = Ppartial + Ppartial…) http://www.famousscientists.org/john-dalton/

8. 5. DMITRI MENDELEEV 1834 – 1907  Russian Chemist  Atoms  Periodic Table of Elements – elements based on properties  Gases: Weather balloons

9. 6. CHARLES DARWIN 1809 - 1882  British naturalist & evolutionist  HMS Beagle voyage and Galapagos Islands  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection  Natural Selection and common ancestry

10.  Curie  Salk  Nobel  Dalton  Mendeleev  Darwin CAN YOU REMEMBER?  Periodic Table  Gas Law  TNT  Radiation  Polio  Natural Selection

11. C. FAMOUS INVENTORS  Michael Faraday  Wilhelm Roentgen  Thomas Edison

12.  British physicist and chemist  Studied energy and electromagentism  Invented the electric motor 1. MICHAEL FARADAY 1791- 1867 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinsmek/4673822534/sizes/m/in/photos tream/

13.  German physicist  Researched the light “x-ray”  Produced the first x-ray photographs (picture that could penetrate the human flesh) 2. WILHELM ROENTGEN 1845- 1923 http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmadden/34408227/sizes/m/in/photostream/

14. 3. THOMAS EDISON 1847-1931  1877 - Phonograph  1879 - “improved” the light bulb  General Electric http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm