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Observes moons of Jupiter, evidence promotes heliocentric model

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Galileo

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Measured the earths circumference

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Eratosthenes

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Observes cells, book “Micrographia”

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Hooke

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Discovers microorganisms, father of micro biology

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Leeuwenhoek

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Made first quantitative estimate of speed of light

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Romer

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Discovers dephlogisticated air

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Priestley

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Disproved phlogiston theory

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Lavoisier

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Law of conservation of mass

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Lavoisier

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First vaccine, smallpox

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Jenner

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Uses a torsion bar to measure density of earth

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Cavendish

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Discovered hydrogen

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Cavendish

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Demonstrated wave-particle duality of light

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Young

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Isolates K, Ca, Na, and others

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Davy

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Discovers electromagnetisism

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Orsted

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Synthesizes urea

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Wöhler

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Law of effusion and diffusion

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Graham

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Doppler effect

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Christian Doppler

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Pendulum, Coriolis effect

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Foucault

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Law of segregation, law of independent assortment

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Mendel

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Spontaneous generation

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Pasteur

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Voltage across a conductor

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Hall, Hall effect

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Rabies vaccine

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Pasteur

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Concept of activation energy

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Arrhenius

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Isolate noble gases

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William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh

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Discover radioactivity

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Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, and Pierre Curie

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Discovers electron

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Thomson

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Oil-Drop Experiment

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Millikan

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Demonstrates super conductivity

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Onnes

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Central atomic neucleus, gold foil experiment

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Rutherford

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Transuranium elements, reorganizes periodic table to current form

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Seaborg

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Penicillin

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Fleming

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Jumping genes, breeds maize for color

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McClintok

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Make first working transistor

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John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain

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Use carbon-14 in photosynthesis

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Calvin, benson

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detect the cosmic microwave background radiation

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Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson