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My Favourite Scientist Project

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Level: 5 - 14 E and F

Visit some of the web sites below to find out about five famous scientists. Write a report about the scientist whom you found most interesting.

Your report should include:

- Where the scientist was born

- Their date of birth (and death)

- A description of their main discovery

Famous scientists (below) or Women in Science or go direct to websites on an individual scientist. Choose from:

Famous scientists

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/bioindex.html

http://www.top-biography.com/navigation%20menu/

http://www.myhero.com/science/science_content.asp

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/topics/BranchofScience.html

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/people.html&edu=high

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/index.html#return

http://www.frontiersclub.org.uk/famous_scientists.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/bypeople/index.shtml

Women in science

http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/summary.shtml

http://www.liquidleaf.com/historia/historia.html

Andre Ampere

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ampere.html

John Logie Baird

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/bypeople/baird_01.shtml

Alexander Graham Bell

http://www.edserv.sjcoe.k12.ca.us/we/biographies/Bell.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/bypeople/bell_01.shtml

Wernher von Braun

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/today/von_braun.html&edu=high

Nicolaus Copernicus

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cosmostar/html/cstars_coper.html

http://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects/giants/copernicus.html

George Washington Carver

http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdcarve.htm

http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/carver.html

Anders Celsius

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/celsius.html

Marie Curie

http://www.aip.org/history/curie/

http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95nov/curie.html

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/curie_m.htm

http://www.nobel.se/physics/articles/curie/index.html

http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/curie.htm

http://curie.che.virginia.edu/scientist/curie.html

John Dalton

http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=4735

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/People/dalton.html

Charles Darwin

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/popup.htm

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/DarwinCharles.html

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/science/parshall/darwin.html

http://www.ezbiographries.com/article1005.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/bypeople/darwin_charles_01.shtml

Rudolf Diesel

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/diesel.html

Thomas Edison

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/edison.html

http://www.edserv.sjcoe.k12.ca.us/we/biographies/Edison.html

http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdediso.htm

http://www.carmensandiego.com/products/time/edisonc17/edison2.html

Albert Einstein

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/einstein.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cosmostar/html/cstars_eins.html

http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/albert_einstein5a.html

http://www.wesleyan.edu/synthesis/culture-cubed/haas/maintemp.htm

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/fleming.html

Michael Faraday

http://www.iee.org/TheIEE/Research/Archives/faraday1.cfm

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761577227

Alexander Fleming

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmflem.html

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/fleming.html

http://clio1.cshl.org/public/History/scientists/fleming.html

Benjamin Franklin

http://www.edserv.sjcoe.k12.ca.us/we/biographies/franklin.html

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/franklin/franklin.htm

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/facts/index.htm

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/scientst.html

Galileo

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cosmostar/html/cstars_galileo.html

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/galileo.html

http://www.ezbiographries.com/article1002.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html

Edmund Halley

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Halley.html

Stephen Hawking

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cosmostar/html/ruther.html

Edwin Hubble

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bahubb.html

Edward Jenner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/bypeople/jenner_01.shtml

James Joule

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/joule.html

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Joule.html

Baron Kelvin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/bypeople/kelvin_01.shtml

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Kelvin.html

Robert Koch

http://top-biography.com/9070-Robert%20Koch/index1.asp

Louis Leakey

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/boleak.html

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/bypeople/leeuwenhoek_01.shtml

Gregor Mendel

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Mendel.html

Dmitri Mendeleev

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cosmostar/html/ruther.html

Sir Isaac Newton

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4116/History/newton.htm?tqskip=1

http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdnewt.htm

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~thhf/newton/

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/newton.html

http://www.ezbiographries.com/article1003.html

Alfred Nobel

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWnobel.htm

http://www.ezbiographries.com/article1004.html

Georg Simon Ohm

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/ohm.html

Louis Pasteur

http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95dec/pasteur.html

Ivan Pavlov

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhpavl.html

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

http://top-biography.com/9072-Wilhelm%20Roentgen/index1.htm

Ernest Rutherford

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/index.html#return

Jonas Salk

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sal0pro-1

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/salk.html

Nikola Tesla

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/tesla.html

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/tesla.html

Count Alessandro Volta

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/volta.html

James Watt

http://www.nobel.se/physics/articles/curie/index.html

James Watson

http://www.achievement.org/frames.html

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