100 Scientists who changed the world

To top the list is Anaximander, who is known as the father of modern astronomy.

1. Anaximander c. 611 - 547 BC, Greek, Father of Modern Astronomy
2. Pythogoras c. 581-497 BC, Proposed that the world was a sphere and he is famous for his Pythogaras Theorem.
3. Hippocartes of Cos
4. Democritus of Abdera, c. 460-370BC, Proposed cone's volume is a third of a cylinder sharing the same sized base and height. Concept of atom
5. Plato 427-347BC , Influenced scientific thought
6. Aristotle c. 384-322BC, Concept of 4 elements (earth, water, air and fire) was elaborated and he added 'aether' as the fifth element
7. Euclid c. 330 - 260BC
8. Archimedes c. 287-212BC - Archimedes principle, Levers and Pulleys
9. Hipparchus c.170-125BC, accurate calculation of the distance of the moon
10. Zhang Heng 78-139AD, deviced the world's first seismograph he named Di Dong Yi, Earth Motion Instrument
11. Ptolemy 90-168AD, Ptolemaic astronomical system would not be rivalled until Copernicus, 1400 years later, Geography, Astrology
12. Galen of Pergamum 130-201AD, Renaissance physician
13. Al-Khwarizmi 800-850 borth in Khwarizm, now Khiva, in Uzbekistan, algorithm is derived from his name, mathematician, geography expanded on Ptolemy's use of longitude and latitude in plotting the positions of places around the world, developing series of maps more accurate than those of his predecessor
14. Johannes Gutenberg 1400-1468, Germany, Invention of Printing press
15. Leonardo da vinci, 1452-1519, Florence, Renaissance Man, Aerodynamics, Hydrodynamics, Military inventions(catapults and missiles)
16. Nicolas Copernicus 1473-1543, Earth circles round the sun
17. Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564 Brussels, Begium, Challenging Galen, Human Anatomy
18. William Gilbert 1540-1603, Study of magnets and magnetism
19. Francis Bacon
20. Galileo Galilei
21. Johannes Kepler
22. William Harvey 1578-1657, Physician(circulation of blood??),
23. Johann van Helmont
24. Rene Descartes
25. Blaise Pascal
26. Robert Boyle
27. Christiaan Huygens
28. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
29. Robert Hooke
30. Sir Isaac Newton
31. Edmund Halley
32. Thomas Newcomen
33. Daniel Fahrenheit
34. Benjamin Franklin
35. Joseph Black
36. Henry Cavendish
37. Joseph Priestley
38. James Watt
39. Charles De Coulomb
40. Joseph Montgolfier
41. Karl Wilhelm Scheele
42. Antoine Lavoisier
43. Count Alessandro Volta
44. Edward Jenner, vaccine for small pox
45. John Dalton, Atomic theory
46. Andre-Marie Ampere
47. Amedeo Avogadro
48. Joseph Gay-Lussac
49. Charles Babbage, first programmable computer
50. Michael Faraday
51. Charles Darwin
52. James Joule
53. Louis Pasteur, fermentation
54. Johann Gergor Mendel, the father of genetics
55. Jean-Josep Lenoir
56. Lord Kelvin, concept of absolute zero(-273.16 degree celsius below which a substance cannot be cooled), Kelvin scale and Electromagnetism
57. James Clerk Maxwell
58. Alfred Nobel, nitroglycerin, stable explosives, nobel prizes
59. Wilhelm Gottlieb Gaimler
60. Dmitri Mendeleev, periodic table
61. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, X-ray
62. Thomas Alva Edison
63. Alexander Graham Bell, telephone
64. Antoine-henri Becquerel, radioactivity
65. Paul Ehrlich, magic bullet cure for tb and syphilis
66. Nikola Tesla
67. Sir John Joseph Thomson
68. Sigmund Freud
69. Heinrich rudolf Hertz
70. Max Planck, Planck's constant, quantum theory
71. Leo Baekeland
72. Thomas Hunt Morgan
73. Marie curie
74. Ernest rutherford
75. The Wright Brothers, aeroplane
76. Guglielmo Marconi, radio
77. Frederick Soddy, discovery of isotopes
78. Albert Einstein, speed of light, theory of relativity
79. Alexander Flemming, discovery of penicillin
80. Robert Goddard
81. Niels Bohr
82. Erwin Schrodinger
83. Henry Moseley
84. Edwin Hubble
85. Sir James Chadwick, weight of an atom, alpha particles
86. Frederick Banting
87. Louis De Broglie, wave-particle theory
88. Enrico Fermi
89. Werner Heisenberg
90. Linus Carl Pauling
91. Robert Oppenheimer
92. Sir Frank whittle
93. Edward Teller
94. William Schockley
95. Alan Turing
96. Jonas Salk, vaccine for Polio
97. Rosalind Franklin, unsung heroine of Genetics
98. James Dewey Watson, key to DNA
99. Stephen Hawkin
100. Tim Berners-Lee, HTML, WWW

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