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Famous Scientists: Alfred Russel Wallace

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Alfred Wegener

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the life and work of Alfred Wegener, known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, and is most remembered as the originator of the theory of continental drift.
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Famous Scientists: Amedeo Avogadro

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and work of Amedeo Avogadro, who was most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law.
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Famous Scientists: Anaximander

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who observed and explained different aspects of the universe, with a particular interest in its origins.
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Famous Scientists: Anders Celsius

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and work of Anders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer who proposed the Celsius temperature scale which bears his name.
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Famous Scientists: Antoine Lavoisier

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the life and work of Antoine Lavoisier, sometimes known as the father of modern chemistry.
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Famous Scientists: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and work of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, best known for his work on the improvement of the microscope, and considered to be the first microbiologist.
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Famous Scientists: Antonio Meucci

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography about Antonio Meucci, best known for developing a voice communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
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Famous Scientists: Antony Hewish

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Antony Hewish, a radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars.
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Famous Scientists: Archimedes

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the ancient Greek mathematician regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.
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Famous Scientists: Aristarchus

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it.
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Famous Scientists: Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of Aristotle (384-322 BC). Discusses his early life, his education, his relationship with Alexander the Great as tutor, the breadth of his work in various science disciplines, the school he established in Athens, and...
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Famous Scientists: Arnold Orville Beckman

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography about Arnold Orville Beckman, once considered to have revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology with his work in bioscience instruments.
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Famous Scientists: Arnold Sommerfeld

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the scientist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also served as PhD supervisor for many Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry.
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Famous Scientists: Arthur Eddington

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, Arthur Eddington. He is noted for his groundbreaking research work in astrophysics.
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Famous Scientists: Artturi Virtanen

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Artturi Virtanen's inventions and research in agricultural and nutrition chemistry made him a Nobel Prize Laureate.
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Famous Scientists: Avicenna

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about Islamic scholar and theologan Avicenna, whose book al-Qanun comprised of the entire medical knowledge available from ancient and Muslim sources.
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Famous Scientists: B. F. Skinner

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and work of one of the most influential psychologists of all time, B.F. Skinner. He is known for inventing the operant conditioning chamber, and for his own experimental analysis of behavior.
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Famous Scientists: Barbara Mc Clintock

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Barbara McClintock made a number of groundbreaking discoveries in genetics.
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Famous Scientists: Beatrix Potter

For Students 9th - 10th
Beatrix Potter may be a familiar name in children's literature, but what a lot do not know is that she is a notable woman of science as well. Find out in this short biography.
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Famous Scientists: Benjamin Cabrera

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Filipino scientist, Benjamin Cabrera, who specialized in parasitology.
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Famous Scientists: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how Benjamin Franklin had a profound effect on our understanding of electricity and shaped the language we use when we talk about it.
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Famous Scientists: Benjamin Thompson

For Students 9th - 10th
FInd out about one of the leading figures in the history of thermodynamics, Bnejamin Thompson.
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Famous Scientists: Bernardo Houssay

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about Bernardo Alberto Houssay, the first Latin American and Argentine to receive the Nobel Prize for his research on the role that pituitary hormones play in sugar metabolism.