Science History


 
 

Directions
The People
Questions About Scientists
Biography Sites
Questions About Careers
Career Sites

Directions For Scientists

Pick one of the scientists below and fill in the Chart using the Biography Sites listed below. Then Pick a Field of Science and Answer the Questions in the Career section.

The People
Scientist names:
 
Tyco Brahe 
 Galileo Galilei 
 Johannes Kepler
 Nicholas Copernicus
Edmund Halley
 Sir Isaac Newton
Eratosthenes
Plato
Aristarchus
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Hipparchus
Alfred Wegener
Clarence Dutton
 Giuseppe Mercalli 
Andrija Mohorovicic
 Charles Richter
Friedrich Mohs
Gaspard Coriolis Bernoulli
Robert Goddard
Daniel Fahrenheit 
Torricelli  Beaufort 
Hertzsprung-Russell
Edwin Hubble
 Matthew Maury
Schiaparelli
Edwin Aldrin 
 Sir William Herschel
Yuri Gagarin 
Sir Charles Lyell
Jacques Cousteau
Piccard 
Robert Ballard

Black Scientists and Inventors:
 
Benjamin Banneker
Jewel Plummer Cobb
Lloyd Ferguson
Myra Adele Logan
Elijah McCoy
Leon Roddy
David Blackwell
W. Montague Cobb
Matthew Henson
Walter Massey
Garrett Morgan
Charles Turner
George W. Carver
Charles Drew 
Shirley Jackson 
Jan Matzeliger
Jennie Patrick
Augustus White
Percy Julian 
Daniel Williams
Ernest Just
Granville Woods
Reatha King 
Jane Wright
Samuel Kountz
Louis Wright
Lasalle Leffall

Women In Science:

Jacqueline Auriol
   Elizabeth Kenny
  Alice Hamilton
Clara Barton
Maria Mayer
  Lillian Wald
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Barbara McClintock 
Elizabeth Blackwell 
Margaret Mead
   Rosalyn Yalow
 Chien-Shiung Wu 
Rachel Fuller Brown
  Sylvia Earle Mead 
Rachel Carson
Sally Ride
Edith Cavell 
 Lisa Meitner
Maria Mitchell
Marie Curie
  Florence Nightingale
Genevieve de Galard
Dorothy Crawford Hodgkin 
Princess Tsahai H. Selassie
Amelia Earhart
Gladys Anderson Emerson
Valentina Tereshkova


Questions About Your Scientist

Look in 3 separate sources to find the following information about your scientist.  Some sources may not have all of the answers.

Source
#1 (Computer)
_____________________
#2 Books
#3 Other ___________________
1. What is the date of your scientists birth?      
2. Name and describe a place where your scientist grew up. (If there are many places pick different ones for each)
 
 
 

 

   
3.  What is your scientist best remembered for? (Example: An invention or idea)
 
 

 

   
4. Name one of the schools where your scientist was educated. Where is it located?
 
 

 

   
5. Did your scientist marry? If so, who? 
Do they have any children?
How many? 
Name the children.

 
 
 
 

 

   
6. Tell me something that they did as they grew up. (For example: lived on a farm, sang, or danced)

 

     
7. Tell me any story about them that makes them more of a "real" person to you. (Something that you found to be interesting about this person that can be interesting about this person that can be shared with the class.      

8. Write down something that you found to be interesting about this person that can be shared with the class.
     
9. During what time period did your scientist live?  (For Example, the Civil War, 1800's, the plague)      
10. What year did your scientist die?      
11.  What was the cause of your scientists death?      

Use all of the sources to answer the following question.

12. Explain about your scientist's discovery or invention.  Why is it important? Why did they discovery it? Was the time right? Was it an accident? Where they trying to find something else and did this instead?
 



Biography Sites

African Americans in the Sciences.

4000 years of Women in Science

Notable Women Scientists

Biography.com

Famous Earth Scientists

Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Scientists

Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography


Career Questions

Information Sheet for My Career In Science

Scientist: __________________________________________

Scientist’s Career: ___________________________________

1. List 5 things that they do in his/her career:
2. List the places that they work (at least 4)
3. Describe the education needed to work in this career. List the places that they work (at least 6)
4. Are there any special techniques used in this career? If yes, explain.
5. List the tools used in this career (at least 5)
6. Are there any other careers that are related to this one? If yes, name them.
7. List 10 important words and definitions for this career:
8. Add 3 more things that you would like to know about this career

Bonus: If you were to interview someone in this career, list 3 questions that you would ask. Put your responses on the back.

Career Sites

  Want to be a Scientist?

  Marinecareers.net

  NASA Spacelink

  Careers in Biology

  NASA Kids- Pioneers

  What makes an Inventor successful?

  Inventor of the Week Archives

| Biologists & Medical Scientists

  Botanist

  Chemist

  Nurse

  Oceanographer

  Physicists & Astronomers

  Physiologist
 


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