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Famous Scientists: page 6 - Bio, Career, Filmography, Links, Photos
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 Paracelsus adopted name of Theophrastus Bornbastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541) developed the idea that minerals and chemicals might have medical uses (iatrochemistry). Short Biography... | |
 Richard Owen (1804-1892) attacked the theory of natural selection and in 1860 published an anonymous and damaging review of Charles Darwin's work. Short Biography: He was Director... | |
 William Oughtred (1575-1660) is credited as the inventor of the slide rule in 1622. Short Biography: His major work Clavis mathematicae/The Key to Mathematics in 1631 was a survey... |  Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was director of the Los Alamos Science Laboratory (1943-1945), he was in charge of the development of the atomic bomb (the Manhattan Project).... |
 Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992) calculated the mass and size of the Galaxy, and the Sun's distance from its centre, from the observed movements of stars around the Galaxy's centre in 1927.... |  Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) was a Dutch physicist, who worked mainly in the field of low temperature physics, and in 1911 discovered the phenomenon of superconductivity (enhanced electrical... |
 Heinrich Olbers (1758-1840) was a German doctor and astronomer. Short Biography: He discovered two of the first asteroids to be found, Pallas in 1802 and Vesta in 1807, as well... |  Georg Simon Ohm (1787-1854) was a German physicist who studied electricity and discovered Ohm's law: that the electric current flowing in a conductor is proportional to the potential... |
 Charles Nicolle (1866-1936) was a French bacteriologist whose discovery in 1909 that typhus is transmitted by the body louse made the armies of World War I introduce delousing as a... |  Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a English physicist and mathematician, who discovered the law of gravity, created calculus, discovered that white light is composed of many colours, and... |
 John Von Neumann (1903-1957) invented his celebrated "rings of operators" (called Von Neumann algebras) in the late 1930s, and also contributed to set theory, games theory, cybernetics... |  Walter Hermann Nernst (1864-1941) investigations, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, were concerned with heat changes in chemical reactions. Short Biography: He... |
 Joseph Needham (1900-1995) worked first as a biochemist concentrating mainly on problems in embryology. Short Biography: In the 1930s he learnt Chinese and began to collect material.... |  James Nasmyth (1808-1890) was a Scottish engineer and machine-tool manufacturer, whose many inventions included the steel hammer in 1839. Short Biography: At his factory near... |
 Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a Norwegian explorer and scientist. Short Biography: In 1893, he sailed to the Arctic in the From, which was deliberately allowed to drift North... |  Johannes Peter Muller (1801-1858) was a German comparative anatomist whose studies of nerves and sense organs opened a new chapter in physiology by demonstrating the physical nature... |
 Rudolf Mossbauer (1929-2011) was a German physicist who discovered in 1958 that in certain conditions a nucleus can be stimulated to emit very sharply defined beams of gamma rays. Short... |  William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) in 1846 introduced ether as an anaesthetic; his claim to be the first to do so was strongly disputed. Short Biography: While searching... |
 In 1835 Samuel Morse (1791-1872) produced the first adequate electric telegraph, and in 1843 was granted $30,000 by Congress for an experimental line between Washington and Baltimore.... |  Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) was an American geneticist, awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his pioneering studies in classical genetics. Short Biography: He was... |
 As professor of anatomy at Padua, Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) carried out large numbers of autopsies, and developed the view that disease was not an imbalance of the body's... |  Antonio Egas Moniz (1874-1955) was a Portuguese neurologist, pioneer of prefrontal leucotomy (surgical separation of white fibres in the prefrontal lobe of the brain) to treat schizophrenia... |
 Ludwig Mond (1839-1909) was a German chemist who perfected a process for recovering sulphur during the manufacture of alkali. Short Biography: In 1873, he helped to found the... |  Henri Moissan (1852-1907) preparation of pure fluorine in 1886, Moissan was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Short Biography: He also attempted to create artificial... |
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