Senior General Knowledge Famous Scientists Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)

Senior General Knowledge - Famous Scientists

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   Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) discovered and popularized the scientific method, whereby the laws of science are discovered by gathering and analysing data from experiments and observations, rather than by using logic-based arguments and the natural philosophy of Aristotle.
   

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   Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) was a German Chemist who developed the Bunsen burner we use today. He also discovered the elements discovered caesium and rubidium with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
   

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   Gregor Mendel (1822 – 1884) is known as the father of genetics. He identified many of the rules of heredity which determine how traits are passed through generations of living things.
   

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   Robert Hooke, (1635 - 1703) was an English physicist who discovered the law of elasticity, known as Hooke’s law.
   

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   Marie Curie (1867 – 1943) was a Polish-born French physicist and chemist who is best known for her contributions to radioactivity. The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-SI unit of radioactivity, named 'in honour of' Pierre Curie, according to his widow, Marie Curie, who was on the standards committee and perhaps a more likely candidate for the naming honours.
   

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   Jane Goodall (1934 – present) is a British primatologist and ethologist. She is widely considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees.
   

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   Francis Crick, and James Watson and Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for solving the structure of DNA.
   

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   Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958) was a British biophysicist who is best known for her work on the molecular structures of coal and graphite, and X-ray diffraction. Her X-ray crystallographic data enabled Crick and Watson to determine the structure of DNA
   

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   Who is the unit of measurement for weight named after?
   

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    Who first discovered penicillin which heralded the dawn of the antibiotic age? He found that mould on old petri dishes was capable of killing a wide range of harmful bacteria, such as streptococcus, meningococcus and the diphtheria bacillus.
    

J Griffin