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Albert Einstein

German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, more...0 points

German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his b...0 points

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist, who is consider more...0 points

Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist, who is considered the founder of modern chemistry. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was educated at the Coll&egr...0 points

Dr Jonas Salk | Polio Vaccine | Nobel Peace Prize Recipient | Founder of the Salk Institute for Scientific Research

When Dr. Jonas Salk envisioned the idea of the Sal more...0 points

When Dr. Jonas Salk envisioned the idea of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, it was with the idea of creating a vibrant, intellectu...0 points

The Google Boys

The Google Boys - (a.k.a. Sergey Brin & Larry more...0 points

The Google Boys - (a.k.a. Sergey Brin & Larry Page) Sergey Brin and Larry Page met as students at Stanford University, where they create...0 points

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale helped to mold the fields of more...0 points

Florence Nightingale helped to mold the fields of nursing and public health. She earned the nickname "The Lady With the Lamp" for ...0 points

Tsai Lun | Cai Lun

The inventor of paper. He lived and served as an o more...0 points

The inventor of paper. He lived and served as an official at the Chinese Imperial Court at the Han Dynasty in China at about 1800 years ago....0 points

Clara Barton

When it comes to having heroes - Clara Barton is t more...0 points

When it comes to having heroes - Clara Barton is the type of person I like to think about.  All that she was able to accomplish is amaz...0 points

Madame Marie Curie

This lens is about Madame Marie Curie. Madame Curi more...0 points

This lens is about Madame Marie Curie. Madame Curie was born in 1868 as Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw Poland, the fifth child of teachers. ...0 points

Martha Rogers

Martha Elizabeth Rogers was a visionary thinker.

In more...0 points

Martha Elizabeth Rogers was a visionary thinker.

In 1970, she published "The Science of Unitary Man" which revolutionized nursing. Her ...0 points

Katharine Wright

You learned the story of the Wright Brothers in sc more...0 points

You learned the story of the Wright Brothers in school, but some of the juicy bits were left out.  The Wright Brothers may (or may not)...0 points

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus revolutioniz more...0 points

Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized science by postulating that the earth and other planets revolve about a stationary sun....0 points

George Washington Carver

As a botany and agriculture teacher to the childre more...0 points

As a botany and agriculture teacher to the children of ex-slaves, Dr. George Washington Carver wanted to improve the lot of "the man fa...0 points

Euclid

Greek mathematician, whose chief work, Elements, i more...0 points

Greek mathematician, whose chief work, Elements, is a comprehensive treatise on mathematics in 13 volumes on such subjects as plane geometry...0 points

Thomas Edison

This lens is about the great inventor Thomas Ediso more...0 points

This lens is about the great inventor Thomas Edison. Here you will find information about Edison, his life and his inventions. Check out...0 points

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur made important contributions to the more...0 points

Louis Pasteur made important contributions to the field of organic chemistry during the mid-1800s, developing various vaccines, including on...0 points

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross has the distinction of w more...0 points

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross has the distinction of writing the first best selling book on a topic that no one wanted to discuss. On Death and ...0 points

Thomas Edison

Although born in Ohio, Thomas Edison spent much of more...0 points

Although born in Ohio, Thomas Edison spent much of his later life in New Jersey. Edison is famous for his work with telegraphy, phonographs,...0 points

Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, an more...0 points

Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher, considered one of the most important scientists of all time. Newton...0 points

Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling was born in Portland Oregon on Febru more...0 points

Linus Pauling was born in Portland Oregon on February 28th, 1901. Pauling was educated at Oregon State College where he received his Bac...0 points

Ignaz Semmelweis

Ignaz Semmelweis was one of the first physicians to more...0 points

Ignaz Semmelweis was one of the first physicians to recognize the importance of Hand Washing prior to examining patients.

Having spent so...0 points

Andrew von Eschenbach

As a Matter of Fact... a Lot of Good

The Food and more...0 points

As a Matter of Fact... a Lot of Good

The Food and Drug Administration regulates approximately one-fourth of the U.S. economy, including e...0 points

Carl Sagan

A squidoote (tribute) to Carl Sagan and astronomy, more...0 points

A squidoote (tribute) to Carl Sagan and astronomy, astrophysics, the cosmos, science, nature, the milky way, galaxies, black holes, the univ...0 points

Galileo Galilei

Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo maintaine more...0 points

Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo maintained that the earth revolved around the sun, disputing the belief held by the Roman Catholic ...0 points

Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is currently the founder a more...0 points

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is currently the founder and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT, but he is perhaps best known for inve...0 points

Doctor Virginia Apgar

Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974), was a brilliant phys more...0 points

Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974), was a brilliant physician and humanitarian. She is best known for her development of the Apgar Score in 1952, ...0 points

Johann Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg originated the technique of pri more...0 points

Johannes Gutenberg originated the technique of printing from movable type. A 15th-century German craftsman, inventor, and printer, Gutenberg...0 points

Dr. Andrew Weil

Dr. Andrew Weil, physician, author, professor and more...0 points

Dr. Andrew Weil, physician, author, professor and wellness advocate, is changing the way that medicine may be practiced in the future by dev...0 points

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell- 1st American Woman Physician

In 1849, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) was more...0 points

In 1849, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) was the first woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American medical school.

Elizabeth B...0 points

Randy Pausch

It is highly likely that Dr. Randy Pausch lasting more...0 points

It is highly likely that Dr. Randy Pausch lasting legacy may not come for his work in Computer Science, his field of expertise. His lasting ...0 points

Daniel Dennett: Philosopher of the Mind

This page is about Daniel Dennett and discussions more...0 points

This page is about Daniel Dennett and discussions on all aspects of his work. We will cover theory of mind, consciousness, determinism, free...0 points

Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engi more...0 points

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer, who now resides in the United States. He is best known for initiating the developmen...0 points

James Kim

The Kim Family story was one that gripped people's more...0 points

The Kim Family story was one that gripped people's attention in late November 2006. The family went missing November 25 when they took a wr...0 points

Aristotle

Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of more...0 points

Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural scienc...0 points

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin Co-Founder & President, Technology more...0 points

Sergey Brin Co-Founder & President, Technology Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in ma...0 points

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking biography with books, videos, lect more...0 points

Stephen Hawking biography with books, videos, lectures, speeches, quotes, pictures, DVD's and much more.0 points

Amit Goswami, Ph. D, Professor of Physics

A professor of physics, retired from the Universit more...0 points

A professor of physics, retired from the University of Oregon, at Eugene, Oregon. His work pioneers the new paradigm of science called scien...0 points

Nikola Tesla - the man who invented the twentieth century

Probably the most creative and prolific scientist more...0 points

Probably the most creative and prolific scientist of the 20th Century, Nikola Tesla was at the forefront of so many scientific disciplines. ...0 points

Larry Page

Larry Page Co-Founder & President, Products La more...0 points

Larry Page Co-Founder & President, Products Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and pr...0 points

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