1. Famous Scientists

2. Benjamin Franklin proved electricity was a force of nature/lightning rod

3. Galileo Galilei built and used telescopes to discover moons other than ours

4. Wilbur Wright with his brother Orville built the first powered, heavier-than-air flying machine

5. Thomas Edison many inventions, among them the incandescent lamp and phonograph

6. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone

7. Edwin Hubble proved that there were other galaxies than our own

8. Carolus Linnaeus wrote books that classified living things using two names, like Tyrannosaurus Rex

9. George Washington Carver developed new products from peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes

10. Sally Ride the first woman who traveled to space

11. Sir Henry Cavendish worked with many gases, especially hydrogen

12. Robert Fulton improved designs to make steamboats work

13. Joseph Priestly showed that Earth’s air is made of many gases

14. Linus Pauling a chemist famous for his work on chemical bonds

15. Albert Einstein made E=mc² formula, that showed energy’s relationship to matter

16. Johan Kepler discovered things about planet orbits- that they weren’t circles

17. Michael Faraday worked with magnets and electricity

18. Edward Jenner created the vaccine for the smallpox disease

19. Madame Marie Curie made advances with radioactive things

20. William Harvey the first to describe how blood flowed in the body

21. Andre Ampere worked with electric current and discovered electromagnetism

22. Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus (a form of math), worked with gravity, and three laws of motion

23. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek made good microscopes to see single- celled organisms

24. Eli Whitney gets credit for inventing the cotton gin

25. Edward Teller helped build the first atomic and hydrogen bombs

26. Robert Goddard created the first liquid-fueled rocket

27. Wilhelm Rontgen first to detect and produce x-rays

28. John James Audubon a naturalist famous for studying and drawing birds

29. Louis Pasteur proved most infectious diseases are caused by germs; helped clean milk

30. James Watt improved engines by giving them power

31. Sir Humphrey Davy famous for working with gases

32. Gregor Mendel invented genetics- the study of inheriting traits

33. Charles Darwin explained evolution by natural selection (adaptations)

34. Jonas Salk made the vaccine to stop polio

35. Neil Armstrong the first astronaut to walk on the moon

36. Antoine Lavoisier used fire to prove what water was made from and named some other elements

37. John Dalton published many ideas about atoms

38. Samuel Morse invented single-wire telegraph and used his code

39. Rachel Carson famous for writing articles and books about ocean life, also environmentalism

40. Robert Koch worked with identifying infectious diseases

41. Robert Bunsen did many things with chemistry, not just his burner