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Famous Scientists: Bill Nye
Learn all about Bill Nye, the science guy, and find out how he has contributed to many aspects of science.
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Famous Scientists: Blaise Pascal
Find out about the French philosopher and scientist who was one of the greatest and most influential mathematical writers of all time, Blaise Pascal.
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Famous Scientists: Brahmagupta
Find out about mathematician Brahmagupta, who was the first to give rules to compute with zero.
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Famous Scientists: C. V. Raman
Learn about the Indian physicist who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Famous Scientists: Carl Bosch
Learn about the life and work of German chemist, engineer, and Nobel laureate in chemistry, Carl Bosch.
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Famous Scientists: Carl Friedrich Gauss
Find out about Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians in history.
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Famous Scientists: Carl Sagan
A short biography about a scientist best known for his contributions to the research of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation.
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Famous Scientists: Carolus Linnaeus
Learn about the life and work of Carolus Linnaeus, the scientist who formalized the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature.
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Famous Scientists: Charles Babbage
See how Charles Babbage was best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer.
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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: Charles Sherrington
Learn about Charles Sherrington, the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the functions of neurons.
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Famous Scientists: Chen Ning Yang
Learn about the Nobel Prize winning physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics.
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Famous Scientists: Christiaan Huygens
Learn about prominent Dutch mathematician and scientist, Christiaan Huygens, whose work included early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock, and other...
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Famous Scientists: Christiane Nusslein Volhard
Find out about the German biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development.
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Famous Scientists: Clarence Birdseye
A short biography about Clarence Birdseye, who is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry.
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Famous Scientists: Claude Bernard
Read about Claude Bernard, one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations.
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Famous Scientists: Claude Levi Strauss
Learn about the French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
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Famous Scientists: Clyde Tombaugh
Find out about Clyde Tombaugh, the scientist who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, and also discovered a number of asteroids.
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Famous Scientists: Daniel Bernoulli
Read a short biography about Daniel Bernoulli, and find out about his work in fluid mechanics, and his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
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Famous Scientists: David Bohm
Learn about the life and work of quantum physicist, David Bohm, who was a leading expert in the fields of theoretical physics, neuropsychology, and philosophy.
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Famous Scientists: David Hilbert
Find out about one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, David Hilbert.
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Famous Scientists: Dian Fossey
Find out about one of the foremost primatologists who undertook an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups over a period of 18 years in the mountain forests of Rwanda.
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Famous Scientists: Dmitri Mendeleev
Find out about the life and work of Dmitri Mendeleev, and learn how he discovered what is now known as the Periodic Table of Elements.