Have you ever heard about the Scientific Revolution? According to Britannica, Scientific Revolution is the name given to a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16t…
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The society of the world has been evolving at a tremendous rate thanks to lots of people with brilliant ideas and people who have the motivation to make it a reality. Furthermore, there is one person …
Frank Donald Drake was born in Chicago, Illinois USA on May 28th, 1930. His father Richard Drake was a chemical engineer working for the city of Chicago. Frank's mother Winifred Thompson met his fathe…
The "father of genetics";Gregor Mendel, was born in 1822 and died in 1884. He was, and still is, considered the father of genetics because he discovered the basics of genetic inheritance. Examples of …
Have you ever turned on a light switch in the dark? Well without Thomas Edision, you would be using other dangerous sources of light, like torches. Thomas Edison is one of the most famous inventors in…
Carl Linnaeus, from a boy to a man was interested in God's creation and was always amazed at the complexity of everything. At a young age Linnaeus studied plants and their names. Linnaeus was both pop…
Throughout the millennium, there were many incredible scientists. But one scientist, in particular, is Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10th, 1856 in Croatia. His father was a priest, but h…
Katherine Johnson was a former NASA employee, activist, and a mother. She was heavily discriminated against because she was an African-American woman that 'couldn't fit the role' of someone in aerospa…
In an article titled Smarter than ever? by Lea Winerman, researcher James Flynn describes his discovery on the slow rise in the average IQ over time. He explains that it has more to do with the evolvi…
When you look at a map, doesn't it seem like all the continents fit together like pieces of a puzzle? Well if you said "yes" then you would be right. Meet Mr. Alfred Wegner, born on November 1st, 1880…