Great Discoveries and Inventions

The Greatest Scientists And Their Inventions And Discoveries

The world

of science

has no borders.

Science and its significance

• Science is knowledge which can be a system and which usually depends on seeing and testing facts, stating general natural laws.
• Science is based on observation and experiment.

Ts’ai Lun

Chinese scientist

Invented paper in the first century

Isaac Newton

1643-1727

The great English scientist

discovered:

law of universal gravity

Закон всемирного тяготения

Three laws of mechanics

Три закона механики

great work “Elements of Natural philosophy”,1687

“ Математические числа натуральной философии ”

Galileo Galilei

1564-1642

Italian scientist

thermometer

microscope

Invented:

telescope

mountains on the moon

Discovered:

spots on the Sun.

Michael Faraday

1791-1867

English physicist and chemist

Discovered connections between electricity and magnetism

In 1831

discovered magneto-electricity.

Johann Mendel

1822-1844

Austrian naturalist

- discovered laws of heredity

Учение о наследственности

-did experiments with peas

Alexander Popov

1859-1906

Russian physicist

invented radio, 1895

got Golden Medal in the World Exhibition in Paris,1901

Louis Pasteur

1859-1906

French scientist

Discovered vaccines against cholera

created the institute of microbiology

Rudolf Engine Diesel

1858-1913

German engineer

created diesel engine, special machine in 1879.

Dimitry Mendeleyev

1834-1907

Russian chemist

Discovered table of chemical elements in 1869

Marie Curie

French physicist

Was born in Warsaw

Discovered radium in 1898

In 1911

received the

Nobel Prize

Alexander Graham Bell

1847-1922

Was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in1847

Invented the telephone in 1876

became a citizen of the United States in 1882

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

1845-1923

German physicist

Discovered x-ray

got awarded Nobel Prize 1901

Ivan Pavlov

1849-1936

Russian physiologist

Discovered conditional reflexes

Albert Einstein

1879-1955

Famous physicist-theorist

Was born in Germany

Lived in Switzerland and in the USA

Discovered theory of relativity

John Logie Baird

1888-1964

Was born and lived in Scotland

Invented television system in 1926.

Demonstrated colour television in 1941