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Which one of these would YOU pick for a science project?
Are any of these people mildly interesting to someone who isn't a science geek? We have to pick one for a project and I have no clue who any of these people are
Ruth Benerito
Joan Berkowitz
Hazel Bishop
Emma Perry Carr
Pamela Clark
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklin
Gertrude Belle Elion
Alice Hamilton
Darleane Hoffman
Shannon Lucid
Gerty Theresa Cori
Stephanie Kwolek
Janet Marcet
Marie Meurdrac
Rosalyn Yalow
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Diane D. Gates-Anderson
John Dalton
Humphrey Davy
Irene Curie-Joloit
Henri Becquerel
Robert Boyle
S. Cannizzaro
Jacque Charles
Neils Bohr
J.J. Thompson
Henry Moseley J. Berzelius
W. Roentgen
J. Robert Oppenheimer
L. Meitner
G. N. Lewis
F. Aston
Joseph Priestly
Michael Faraday
J. Proust
E. Rutherford
A. Avogadro
Paracelsus
Robert Bunsen
Fritz Haber
D. Mendeleev
Fritz Wohler
E. Torricelli
Linus Pauling
Leslie Groves
Arrhenius
LeChatelier
F. Werner
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This is some list! Most of them I'm ashamed to say I don't know but some of them seem to give 'clues' as to who they are or why they are known. Could Robert Bunsen be connected to the bunsen burners we used in chemistry labs when I was in school? Didn't Marie Curie, Irene Curie-Joliot and W. Roentgen have something to do with X-rays? Here in Wales, many years ago our miners used to carry a Davy lamp when underground; could that be something to do with Humphrey Davy?
Don't be put off by the length of the list, look in an encyclopaedia or on Wikipedia for inspiration and find someone interesting to write/talk about.
Hope this helps, let me know who you decide to focus on?
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Rosalind Franklin was a women who discovered the double helix of DNA but 2 guys (Watson and crick) stole her information and made a model. They were credited for making one of the most important scientific disocoveries. They even won a Nobel prize. Rosalind never died at a young age and never even realized that her work has 1. Been stolen and 2. Marked such an emended difference in the making of the model. Good luck(:
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Even if their work sounds dull in a textbook, a lot of scientists lead surprisingly interesting lives. If you want a quick way to look over any name in the list, just stick a name into google and scan their Wikipedia article.
I agree with the others; Marie Curie is very well known and considered one of the most influential female scientists of all time. She and her husband did groundbreaking work in the study of radioactive elements. Unfortunately, the dangers of radiation were unknown at the time and they did all their experiments with no protection at all. Her husband died in a street accident, but Marie Curie eventually died from aftereffects of radiation exposure. Her personal papers are so radioactive that they are kept in lead boxes and anyone who wants to handle them must wear protective clothing.
Another very well known person in the list is J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is considered the "father of the atomic bomb" for his work on the Manhattan Project. He was actually under investigation for much of his life as a security threat, despite (or perhaps because of) his vital role in the Manhattan Project. He'd make a great choice for your presentation.
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My opinion I think you should go for Marie curie she's more well known I think it's be interesting. Or you could do one that's not As known like give the people something they didn't expect this science person did something!
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I heard of Michael Faraday, Humphrey Davy and Marie Curie. I literally just read about bot of them. If I had to pic which 1 I likes the best it would be Michael Faraday. He always had tons of questions he also loved to read and later became a apprentice in a bookbinder shop. One day he went to a auditorium and heard a speech composed by Sir Humphrey Davy himself. HE wrote down all the notes he could and then later on he sent his notes to him and then he went on to become a scientist. Have you ever heard of Daniel Hale Williams. He was a African American and was the first person to ever preform Open Heart Surgery on a patient that had a stab wound to the chest. He also was the person to open the doors of Province Hospital. This hospital was open to any race and trained nurses and doctors of any race because back then hospitals would not have people that are not white walk into there hospital. Which I thought was not nice at all because every race has the right to have the same exact treatment as white people did.
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I've only ever heard of Paracelsus, and that's because I studied the History of Medicine a while ago. Like I've said, I've never really heard of any of the others. But I was interested in Paracelsus, simply because of the time period he was in. He was a Renaissance scientist.
The reason I find this period (or any time before the 18th century) interesting, is because everything was so new to the scientists. I like the weird theories they used to explain why certain things happened, and a lot of what they discovered was ground breaking, because not much had been discovered before then.
So I think these types of scientist are great, for the above reason. There's tonnes of stuff on the internet to help you.
Hope I helped :)
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