Who is the scientist you admire most?

Isaac Newton1642~1727(British)He was the first to suggest that gravity is a force. He thought it was the same everywhere as it was on the earth. Isaac Newton, the founder of the law of the If I have seen further, it is gravity, was the greatest physicist and by standing ongeneration. the shoulders mathematician of his

of giants.

Albert Einstein(1879~1955, German/American)

He is greatly respected/known/admired as the leading scientist of the 20th century. He developed a new idea of gravity because he realized that gravity could not be the The most important thing issame in space. Heto suggested that time and gravity not stop questioning. are bent whenever they meet a large object.

Stephen Hawking

He put forward a theory about “black holes”. His idea does not change Einstein’s but develop and enlarge them. He thinks black holes “eat” space material but also “spit them out” to produce new galaxies and planets.

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5.Who discovered radium? Marie Curie (1867-1934) (Polish and French)She is the first woman in the world to receive two Nobel Prizes. She is remembered not only for her discovery of the element radium but for her determination and courage, her willingness to share her knowledge, her interest in women’s rights, and her medical service during the war.

Life is not easy for any of us. We must work, and above all we must believe in ourselves. We must believe that each of us is able to do something well, and that, when we discover what this something is, we must work until we succeed.

Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) British

He improved the first steam pump and turned it into a steam engine for taking water out of mines in 1712. James Watt improved it and turned it into the first modern steam engine used on the railways.

Thomas Edison (1847-1931) a great American inventorGenius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a “genius” is often a talented person who has done all of his or her homework. Edison is remembered most for the electric light, phonograph and his work with motion pictures.

1.Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps Archimedes (287-212 BC) them float? an ancient Greek mathematician & physicist

He found that if you put an object into water, theGive water me pushes the object It rises and a place toup. stand on, partly floats. The force of the water pushing it and I can move the earth. up is the same as the weight of the object.

The Origin of Species

2.Who wrote a book His book explained how explaining how animals plants and animals had and plants developed changed over time to fitas in with a changing environment. the environment changed?And he said people had developed from apes instead of being made by God.

Charles Darwin (1808-1882) was the British naturalist who became famous for his theories of evolution and natural selection.

He invented the earliest i

nstrument to tell people where earthquakes happened.

Zhang Heng(78-139) Chinese, invented seismograph

Use peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children

Gregor Mendel

(1822-1884) Czech, a botanist and geneticist.

"I saw rice plants as tall as Chinese sorghum,” he said of a dream he once had, “each ear of rice as big as a broom and each grain of rice as huge as a peanut."He is more of a scientist than of a farmer. He is admired/known/respected/ considered as the father of Hybrid Rice. Yuan Longping (1930,Chinese)

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He is more of a scientist than of a farmer. He is admired/known/respected/considered as the father of Hybrid Rice.

Isaac Newton, the founder of the law of the gravity ,was the greatest physicist and mathematician of his generation.He is greatly resepcted/known/ admired as the leading scientist of the 20th century.

She is the first woman in the world to receive two Nobel Prizes. She is remembered not only for her discovery of the element radium but for her determination and courage, her willingness to share her knowledge, her interest in women’s rights, and her medical service during the war. Edison is remembered most for the electric light, phonograph and his work with motion pictures.

She is one of China’s fifty most successful business leaders and she has been described as being “bigger than Oprah”. Well known to one billion viewers, she is among China’s most popular TV personalities. Born in Beijing in 1968, She began her career as the host for the popular “ZhengDa TV show”. She was only 21 at the time and had just graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University.