Category: Science
Created by: tula.ndex
Number of Blossarys: 51
English (EN)
À l'âge de 12 ans, Mary Anning devait devenir un des plus célèbres paléontologues populaires, avec sa découverte d'une Icthyosaur complète. Elle était un chasseur de fossiles dont découvertes faites ...
Mildred Dresselhaus, often called the "queen of carbon science" has been studying it in various forms for over 50 years. Now, graphene is hailed as a wonder material and using carbon in electronics ...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) With the aid of a radio telescope she built herself, she became the first astronomer to detect pulsars rapidly spinning, extremely dense neutron stars. As a graduate ...
Lise Meitner, (1878-1968) A Jewish scientist, she escaped from the Nazis to Sweden in 1938, and carried out the key calculations that led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Her collaborator, Otto ...
Dorothy Hodgkin 1910-1994 Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry Dorothy Hodgkin work on critical discoveries of the structure of both penicillin and later insulin. These discoveries led to ...
Annie Scott Dill Maunder, (1868 – 1947) was an Irish astronomer and mathematician. In 1891 she began work at the Greenwich Royal Observatory, serving as one of the "lady computers" assigned to the ...
Alice Catherine Evans was a microbiologist who championed the pasteurization of milk, after discovering that microbes in unpasteurized milk could sicken humans. She was working at the U.S Department ...
By: tula.ndex