Famous Scientists

Find 10 scientists who changed how we see the world.

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Every big idea in science started with someone asking a question nobody had answered yet. These ten scientists changed what we know about physics, biology, medicine, and the natural world.

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Newton: Isaac Newton described the laws of motion and universal gravitation in his 1687 work, the Principia.
Einstein: Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity and the famous equation relating energy and mass.
Curie: Marie Curie pioneered research on radioactivity and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
Darwin: Charles Darwin proposed evolution by natural selection in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.
Galileo: Galileo Galilei used an early telescope to discover the moons of Jupiter and supported the idea that Earth orbits the Sun.
Tesla: Nikola Tesla helped develop the alternating current electrical systems that power homes and cities today.
Pasteur: Louis Pasteur advanced germ theory, developed vaccines, and gave his name to the process of pasteurization.
Hawking: Stephen Hawking made groundbreaking discoveries about black holes and wrote the bestseller A Brief History of Time.
Faraday: Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, the principle behind electric generators and transformers.
Goodall: Jane Goodall began studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960 and transformed our understanding of primates.