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Scientists
This category is for questions about the people who apply the scientific method to solve problems, introduce new concepts, and strive to explain the natural world.
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What did John James Audubon do?
John James Audubon was an artist who specialized in painting pictures of birds in their natural settings. His most important work was The Birds of North America (1827-1839), made up of prints of his painting. It is still thought of as one of the greatest works on ornithology ever done.
There is a link below to an article on him.
What was the name of the book Mendeleev wrote?
Mendeleev, as a government scientist in Czarist Russia, must have done a variety of publications! He is best noted for this life-work with the Periodical Table of the Elements- it is associated with him as the laws of Gravity are with Newton. He was also a founding member of the Imperial Bureau of Standards, which antedated the US equivalent ( US Bureau of Standards- founded l90l and sadly no longer extant) for some odd reason this durable chemisty man was NEVER awarded the Nobel Prize- He was eligible for 7 years- he died in l907.
When did Pasteur discover bacteria?
He was working on it throughout the 1860s, but it was officially accepted in 1864. Historians can't tell exactly when he developed the theory itself.
Microbiologist Dorothy V. McClendon was born in 1924Minden, Louisiana. Her family moved to Michigan for her to attend Cass Technical High School, in Detroit. By the time she graduated, McClendon knew she wanted to be a scientist. In 1948, she gaduated from Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University, in Nashville. She continued her education, back in Michigan with advanced science studies at the University of Detroit and Wayne State University; and in Indiana, at Purdue University of West Lafayette.
Careerwise, McClendon was a public school teacher in Phoenix, Arizona and Eldorado, Arkansas. She then accepted a position that required her relocation back to Michigan. For over two decades now, she has been an industrial microbiologist for the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command in Warren. As research coordinator, she's concerned with the quality control of fuels and military storage materials. To that end, she currently is researching the development of a fungicide that protects storage materials without harming its human handlers.
What country is the scientist tesla from?
Nikola Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan, in Croatia. (At the time it was part of ther Austrian Empire).
What is Benjamin Franklin best known for?
He is most known as one of the founders of the American Government. He invented many things during his life: the Franklin stove, Bifocals, etc. For the most part, he is famous because he was resourceful, clever, and a hard worker. He was a genius, and he did EVERYTHING. He was the guy who tied the key to the kite during the thunderstorm (or so the legend goes). After the U.S. was founded, he worked as ambassador for to Britain and administer to France. The thing which made him famous for the time was the Poor Richard's almanac, which contained witty quotes by his pseudonym, Poor Richard. Among the most famous quotes are: "three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" "Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
What did Ernest Rutherford work on?
Some chemistry experiment involving shooting atoms at gold tin foil..basically finding electrons. However, the question you should be asking in the world of chemistry is: Who is Alice Hoffman?
Did Mahatma Gandhi go to jail?
Mohandas Gandi went to jail several times, usually for some kind of civil disobedience towards the British Government.
Once Gandhi was arrested on a charge that stated he tried to overthrow the British government. He plead guilty and received a six year prison sentence in March of 1922. He was released a in January of 1924.
Actually, Gandhi spent approximately 7 years in Jail. Not all at one time, but in many short periods of time (usually around 2months each). Gandhi went to jail for a number of things, but mostly for his protests against the British government in India.
What was Louis Pasteur responsible for?
Louis Pasteur has many contributions in bacteriology, germ theory of diseases, vaccination, fermentation, etc.
How did Max Planck contribute to the atomic theory?
Quantum theory, the idea that energy is emitted in discrete quanta, contrary to classical physical theory.
James Clerk Maxwell is more than dead, I'd suspect his body is fully decomposed by now.
James Clerk Maxwell died in Cambridge, England, on the 5th November 1879, which is over 130 years ago.
He died of abdominal cancer at the age of 48.
How did Columbus find out the world is round?
He didn't. Educated people in Europe had believed that the world was round-a sphere, spherical-for more than 1,500 years before Columbus was born.
Columbus set out to prove that a ship could reach Asia by sailing west from Europe. He believed that the world was only about 12,000 miles (19,300 km) around at the equator when most people believed, correctly, that it was about 24,000 miles (38,600 km) around at the equator. In 1488, four years before Columbus' (in)famous first voyage to the New World, some Portugese explorers had found some islands relatively far out in the Atlantic and he might've thought that they sounded like they were Asian for some reason. Spain wanted to destroy all its neighbors, so when some guy came up to them and said, "I can get you all sorts of money for guns by sailing west to India as long as I get a cut," they thought, "Eh, worst that'll happen is this guy'll get eaten by his crew before they start eating each other and the last one alive dies of starvation instead of horrible, horrible, zombie murder and we'll be out a couple boats."
When Columbus hit the Bahamas, he thought he was in India. That's why the aboriginal people of the Americas are wrongly called Indians.
Note that even if most people at the time thought that the world was flat and you'd fall off if you sailed to far, Columbus' journey woulndn't've disproved that unless he was actually in India. By the time of his death in 1506, people had already figured out that he wasn't in any known region of the world. If they thought the world was flat, all that Columbus would've proved to them is that there were another continent on their flat world. The idea of Columbus "proving" that the world is round doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Another guy, named Magellan, later sailed all the way around the world going only west, thereby strongly suggesting that the world was round, but this still wouldn't prove the world was a sphere. It could be a half-sphere or a cylinder or anything. There's a lot of geometry and astronomy that goes into proving that the earth is spherical, both of which the ancient Greeks were good enough at in the 3rd century BCE to prove that the earth was a sphere and estimate its equatorial circumference within a few hundred miles.
Who is the most famous Scientist in the world and what did he do?
Albert Einstein is a famous European scientist. He figured out the formula E=mc2 which helped determine many things such as the speed of light he also helped the Americans make the first atom bomb in world war 2. He was not helping the Germans because Adolf Hitler was arresting all the Jews so he moved to America. Albert Einstein was very smart although he dropped out of high school and did very bad in elementry school he still went to the top scientific industies in Switzerland and he studied a lot there. When Albert died it was sad because he was such a great man.
How a scientific theory differs from a guess or an opinion?
A hypothesis is a guess based on the knowledge of the scientist who makes it about what will happen in certain conditions. An experiment is designed to test the hypothesis, or observations are made in the conditions that the hypothesis describes. If the experiment or observation proves that the hypothesis is wrong, then the hypothesis is modified or discarded. If many, many different experiments and observations, performed many, many times, by many, many different scientists all seem to support the hypothesis, then the hypothesis comes to be accepted by the scientific community as a good working model for the conditions it describes. It then becomes a theory. At any time, an observation could disprove a theory or at least force it to be modified, but all theories currently accepted at any given time have lots of strong scientific evidence supporting them. (It is impossible to PROVE a theory, only to provide evidence in support of it). A theory will alwaysbe reconsidered in the face of new evidence. An opinion may not be. A theory also has much more evidence behind it than a guess.
Attitude is a position.
A plane has an attitude up, down, sideways.
A person has an attitude of angry, sad, belligerent.
Whe I say that my son has an attitude that means he is being, in my opinion, unreasonable.
How far should scientist be responsible for the uses made for the discoveries?
A scientist cannot be made responsible for his discoveries anymore than an explorer can be made responsible for his discoveries. In both cases the thing discovered was always there, it just needed someone to find it. Also if that scientist or explorer chose to withhold his/her discovery for fear of what might come of it, there is nothing to keep another person from discovering it too.
How many scientist believe in god?
Most qualified scientists are atheists. The following studies are for scientists in the United States and Great Britain, but similar results would be found elsewhere throughout the world.
In 1998, a study by Larson and Witham appeared on the leading journal Nature ("Leading scientists still reject God"), showing that of the American scientists who had been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, only about 7 percent believe in a personal god. Religious believers formed about 40 percent of the less eminent scientists in America.
A study in Britain, undertaken by R. Elisabeth Cornwell and Michael Stirrat, involved sending a questionnaire to all 1,074 Fellows of the Royal Society who possessed an email address, offering several propositions and asking the scientists to rank their beliefs on that point from 1 to 7. Preliminary results indicate that 3.3 percent agreed strongly (chose 7) and 78.8 percent disagreed strongly (chose 1) that a personal god exists.
What do scientists think UFO's are?
as alien spaceship watching our nuclear activity and watching our progress ...to collect our intelligence maybe...
What scientist is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery?
Claudia Jones, black Communist and fighter for social justice
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other novels
Edward Hodges Baily, sculptor
Farzad Bazoft, journalist, executed by Saddam Hussein's regime
Jacob Bronowski, scientist, creator of the television series The Ascent of Man
Robert William Buss, artist and illustrator
Patrick Caulfield, painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvasses
Robert Caesar Childers, oriental scholar and writer
Lucy Clifford, British novelist and journalist, the wife of William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher
John Singleton Copley, Lord Chancellor and son of the American artist
Sir Charles Cowper, Premier of NSW, Australia (1857-1859)
Charles Cruft, founder of Crufts dog show
John Dickens and Elizabeth Dickens, parents of Charles and models for Micawber and Mrs Nickleby
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist
Claire Epstein, doctor
Michael Faraday, physicist
Paul Foot, campaigning journalist
William Friese-Greene, cinema pioneer. The memorial is credited to Edwin Lutyens
Stella Gibbons, novelist
Lou Gish, actress, daughter of Sheila Gish
Sheila Gish, actress
Robert Grant VC. soldier and police constable
Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness and other novels
Mansoor Hekmat, Communist leader and founder of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran and Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
James Holman, sightless 19th-century adventurer known as "the Blind Traveller"
George Henry Lewes, critic
Alexander Litvinenko, Russian dissident turned critic, murdered by poisoning in London
Charles Lucy, artist
Anna Mahler, sculpturess, daughter of composer and conductor Gustav Mahler
Carl Marx, father of communism
Frank Matcham, theatre architect
Carl Mayer, Austrian-German screenwriter of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and Sunrise
Ralph Miliband, left wing political theorist, father of David Miliband and Ed Miliband
Henry Moore, (1841-93), marine painter
Dachine Rainer, poet and anarchist
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83), actor
Christina Rossetti, poet
Frances Polidori Rossetti, mother of Dante Gabriel, Christina and William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Raphael Samuel, historian
Thomas Sayers, Victorian pugilist
Elizabeth Siddal, wife and model of artist/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Canadian railway financier and diplomat
Herbert Spencer, evolutionary biologist and laissez-faire economic philosopher
Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the DNB, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Feliks Topolski, Polish-born British expressionist painter
Arthur Waley, translator and oriental scholar
Max Wall, comedian and entertainer
George Wombwell, menagerie exhibitor
Mrs Henry Wood, author
Adam Worth, criminal and possible inspiration for Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Professor Moriarty
Patrick Wymark, actor
What does a forensic scientist do?
A forensic scientist is a scientist who analyzes biological, chemical, or physical samples taken into evidence during a criminal investigation. It's their work to provide the proof the police need to bring the case to court.
Also Forensic scientists examine contact trace materials associated with crimes in order to provide evidence for criminal investigations. The work is usually dealt with under three sections: biology, chemistry and drugs/toxicology.
They can use parts of the victim's body, usually the bones, to identify: the cause of death; the gender, ethnicity, age, height of the victim; and, how long the victim has been dead.
The clothes that forensic scientist wear is a plastic white suit and a plastic white shoes which like a shopping bag.
How do you manage love relationship along with studies?
It is easy to fall into the trap of either being all about school or all about romance. To balance things out, make time for both things. Have set study times for getting your schoolwork done, and plan at least one day a week for dating and not school.
What kind of scientists are electricians?
An electrician is not a scientist. A scientist is one who conducts research using the scientific method to prove or disprove a hypothesis.
An electrician is a trades-person who specializes in wiring of electrical systems.
Is there a link between Winston Churchill and Sir Alexander Fleming?
There is an apochryphal story that Alexander Fleming saved Churchill's life twice. Once when Fleming was a teenager he was supposed to have saved Churchill from drowning in a Scottish loch and later Fleming's discovery of Penicillin was supposed to have saved Churchill from death by lung infection. Neither story is true.
What do scientists use to show evolutionary relationships?
Fish... They open and close there mouth and again, and again etc... Also fish can swim in the sea, there are lots of different types of fish and some can be eaten and yeah laaa !!
