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Famous Scientists: Edwin Herbert Land
Learn about the scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, Edwin Herbert Land.
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Famous Scientists: Edwin Hubble
Learn about Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer who is known for playing a vital role in the development of extragalactic astronomy.
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Famous Scientists: Elizabeth Blackwell
A short biography about Elizabeth Blackwell, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
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Famous Scientists: Emil Adolf Behring
A short biography about the German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin.
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Famous Scientists: Emil Fischer
Find out about the German chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine synthesis.
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Famous Scientists: Emil Kraepelin
Learn about the life and work of the man who was the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, as well as of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.
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Famous Scientists: Emile Berliner
Meet the inventor of the phonograph record and the phonograph, Emile Berliner.
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Famous Scientists: Emmy Noether
A short biography about mathematician, Emmy Noether who was known for her landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
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Famous Scientists: Empedocles
Meet Empedocles, the Greek philosopher who is best known for being the originator of the cosmogenic theory of the four Classical elements.
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Famous Scientists: Enrico Fermi
Find out about Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist known for his achievements in both theoretical and experimental physics.
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Famous Scientists: Ernest Lawrence
Learn about the life and work of Ernest Lawrence, inventor of cyclotron and founder of big science.
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Famous Scientists: Ernest Rutherford
This short biography about Ernest Rutherford explains how he became known as the father of nuclear chemistry and physics.
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Famous Scientists: Ernesto Illy
UNderstand more about the man behind the brand name, Illy, and consider what he did for coffee.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Ising
Learn about the man who discovered and named the Ising Model, a mathematical model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Mach
Read about the life and work of this Austrian physicist and philosopher, known for his contributions to physics with the Mach number and the study of shock waves.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Werner Von Siemens
Find out how Werner von Siemens became the pioneer of the electro industry and brought about a great technological advancement with many of his important discoveries.
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Famous Scientists: Erwin Chargaff
Learn about the Austrian biochemist and author, Erwin Chargaff, best known for "Chargaff's Rules" which lead to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure.
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Famous Scientists: Euclid
Learn about the Greek scientist best known as the author of the Elements, the oldest book consisting of geometrical theorems which is considered to be a standard for logical exposition.
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Famous Scientists: Evangelista Torricelli
Learn about the life and work of the father of hydrodynamics and inventor of the barometer.
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Famous Scientists: Fibonacci Leonardo of Pisa
Find out about how Fibonacci invented the modern number system, and contributed to the scientific revolution.
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Famous Scientists: Francesco Redi
Find out about the experimental biologist, Francesco Redi, and learn about his work that led to becoming known as the father of modern parasitology.
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Famous Scientists: Francis Bacon
Read about Francis Bacon, and finf out how he discovered and popularized the scientific method.
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Famous Scientists: Francis Crick
Discover Francis Crick, British molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist who jointly won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids.
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Famous Scientists: Francis Galton
Learn about the life and work of the father of eugenics, and find out how he contributed to the research on human intelligence.