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Famous Scientists: Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
Learn about the life and work of one of the pioneers of quantum physics, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli.
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Famous Scientists: Zora Neale Hurston
Meet the American novelist and anthrpologist best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Famous Scientists: Eratosthenes
Take a quick guide through the life and achievements of famous Greek mathematician Eratosthenes.
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Famous Scientists: Al Battani
Find out about Al-Battani, Arab astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician who introduced a number of trigonometric relations.
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Famous Scientists: William Smith
Find out about the English geologist credited with creating the first nationwide geological map of England and Wales.
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Famous Scientists: Andre Marie Ampere
Learn about Andre Marie Ampere, one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics.
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Famous Scientists: Frank Hornby
Learn how Frank Hornby managed to excel in toy invention based on engineering principles.
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Famous Scientists: Friedrich August Kekule
Learn about the life and work of Friedrich August Kekule, and his contributions to organic chemistry.
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Famous Scientists: Friedrich Wohler
Read about Fredrich Wohler's scientific contributions in the field of chemistry.
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Famous Scientists:rene Descartes
Learn about the life and contributions of Rene Descartes in this article.
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Famous Scientists: Wilhelm Rontgen
A short biography about the scientist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Rontgen rays, which earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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Famous Scientists: Brian Cox
Learn about the life and work of English pop star-turned-physicist, Brian Cox.
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Famous Scientists: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
A short biography about Charles Coulomb, known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion.
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Famous Scientists: Neil De Grasse Tyson
Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Neil deGrasse Tyson in this article.
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Famous Scientists: Erwin Schrodinger
Learn about the life and work of this Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist, founder of quantum mechanics, the Schrodinger equation, and his brilliant contributions to the wave theory of matter.
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Famous Scientists: Alfred Russel Wallace
Learn about the life and work of Alfred Wallace, who is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings.
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Famous Scientists: Charles Darwin
A short biography of Charles Darwin, and how he discovered evolutionary theory and natural selection.
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Famous Scientists: Charles Lyell
Learn about the works of Charles Lyell, a geologist who studied Earth's history.
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Famous Scientists: E. O. Wilson
Find out about the environmental advocate known as both the father of sociobiology and the father of biodiversity, Edward O. Wilson.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Haeckel
Find out about Ernst Haeckel, a scientist known for his work with ecology, zoology, and the study of phylogeny.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Mayr
Read about the life and work Ernst Mayr, one of 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
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Famous Scientists: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Learn about the Nobel Prize winner for his mathematical theory of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.
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Famous Scientists: Theodosius Dobzhansky
Read a short biography about Theodosius Dobzhansky, a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis.