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Biographies of Scientists and Inventors

Benjamin Banneker - Scientist and astronomer from the 1700s who wrote a popular almanac.

Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the telephone.

Rachel Carson - Founder of environmental science.

George Washington Carver - Botanist who was called the "farmers best friend."

Francis Crick and James Watson - Discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.

Marie Curie - Physicist who discovered radioactivity.

Leonardo da Vinci - Inventor and artist from the Renaissance.

Charles Drew - Doctor and scientist who helped create blood banks for World War II.

Thomas Edison - Invented the light bulb, phonograph, and the motion picture.

Albert Einstein - Came up with the Theory of Relativity and the equation E=mc2.

Henry Ford - Invented the Model T Ford, the first mass produced car.

Ben Franklin - Inventor and Founding Father of the United States.

Robert Fulton - Built the first commercially successful steamboat.

Galileo - First used the telescope to view the planets and stars.

Jane Goodall - Studied chimpanzees in the wild for many years.

Johannes Gutenberg - Invented the printing press.

Stephen Hawking - Known for Hawking Radiation and writing A Brief History in Time.

Antoine Lavoisier - Father of modern chemistry.

James Naismith - Invented the sport of basketball.

Isaac Newton - Discovered the theory of gravity and the three laws of motion.

Louis Pasteur - Discovered pasteurization, vaccines, and founded the science of germ theory.

Eli Whitney- Invented the cotton gin.

The Wright Brothers - Invented the first airplane.