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Precise - answer pinch of salt, how close values are in a series.
Accurate is how close the value is to the actual, correct value.
accurate - answer is how close the value is to the actual, correct
value.
accurate and precise - answer graduated cylinder
neither accurate nor precise - answer using different lengths to
measure something
Isaac Newton - answer (1665) laid the foundations for classical
mechanics, explaining the law of gravity and the laws of motion.
Louis Pasteur - answer (1856) Pasteur contributed greatly towards
the advancement of medical sciences developing cures for rabies,
anthrax and other infectious diseases. Also invented the process of
pasteurisation to make milk safer to drink. He probably saved more
lives than any other person.
Galileo - answer (1609) Creating one of the first modern
telescopes, Galileo revolutionised our understanding of the world,
successfully proving the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the
other way around. His work Two New Sciences laid the groundwork
for the science of Kinetics and strength of materials.
,Marie Curie - answer (1867) Polish physicist and chemist.
Discovered radiation and helped to apply it in the field of X-ray. She
won the Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Physics.
Albert Einstein - answer (1917) Revolutionised modern physics
with his general theory of relativity. He won the Nobel Prize in
Physics (1921) for his discovery of the Photoelectric effect, which
formed the basis of Quantum Theory.
Charles Darwin - answer Darwin developed his theory of evolution
against a backdrop of disbelief and scepticism. He collected
evidence over 20 years and published his conclusions in On the
Origin of Species (1831).
Otto Hahn - answer Hahn was a German chemist who discovered
nuclear fission (1939). He was a pioneering scientist in the field of
radiochemistry and discovered radioactive elements and nuclear
isomerism (1921). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in
1944.
Nikola Tesla - answer (1888) Tesla worked on electromagnetism
and AC current. He is credited with many patents from electricity to
radio transmission and played a key role in the development of
modern electricity.
James Clerk Maxwell - answer (1861) Maxwell made great strides in
understanding electromagnetism. His research in electricity and
kinetics laid the foundation for quantum physics. Einstein said of
Maxwell, "The work of James Clerk Maxwell changed the world
forever."
Aristotle - answer (384 BCE-322 BCE) A great early Greek scientist
who made many types of research in the natural sciences including
botany, zoology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology and
geometry.
, Zhang heng - answer Constructed first seismograph in 132
Archimedes - answer (287-212 BCE) Greek mathematician and
inventor. He wrote works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic,
and mechanics. He is best known for the lever and pulley.
Ibn al-Haytham - answer (965-1040) Muslim doctor who founded
the science of optics
Leonardo da Vinci - answer (1503) Italian painter, engineer,
musician, and scientist. The most versatile genius of the
Renaissance, Leonardo filled notebooks with engineering and
scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of
their time. As a painter Leonardo is best known for The Last Supper
(c. 1495) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503).
Nicolaus Copernicus - answer (1520) Polish clergyman. Sun was the
center of the universe; the planets went around it. On the
Revolution of Heavenly Spheres. Destroyed Aristotle's view of the
universe - heliocentric theory.
Robert Boyle - answer Irish chemist who established that air has
weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical
reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1661)
Daniel Fahrenheit - answer (1714) invented the mercury
thermometer
Anders Celsius - answer Swedish astronomer who devised the
centigrade thermometer (1742)
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