Scientist Biographies

Discovering how electricity and magnetism work together and helping create electric motors

He proposed that Earth and the other planets move around the Sun.

Helping us understand how atoms work and shaping modern physics

He helped create the system of alternating current (AC) electricity that powers homes and cities.

Studying how humans learn and use language

Helping create quantum physics and predicting the existence of antimatter

She helped people understand and protect nature through her books about the environment.

A famous thinker who helped create modern philosophy and made important discoveries in math.

Explaining hard science ideas in simple, fun ways and creating Feynman diagrams.

He helped create modern chemistry and discovered Boyle’s Law about gases.

Discovering the germs that cause serious diseases and helping doctors understand how infections spread.

She helped reveal the structure of DNA by taking clear X-ray images that showed its shape.

She was the first American woman to travel into space.

Leading the Soviet space program and helping send the first satellite and first human into space

He helped create psychoanalysis, a way of understanding the mind, and influenced the study of psychology.

A famous scientist who studied space, black holes, and helped people understand the universe.

Making the most accurate sky measurements before telescopes and helping change how people understood the universe

Discovering strong evidence for dark matter by studying how galaxies spin

Starting the Green Belt Movement and winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping people and the planet

Helping create quantum mechanics and discovering the Uncertainty Principle

Helping develop powerful rockets that made human space travel and Moon landings possible