Science and technology

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH IN GB

• Isaac Newton – English physicist and mathematician
• James Watt – the inventor of steam engine
• George Stephenson – designed the first railway locomotive
• Michael Faraday – English physicist and chemist
  • made first dynamo
• Charles Darwin – important English naturalist
  • a founder of the modern theory of evolution and natural selection
• James Clerk Maxwell – Scottish physicist
  • basic laws of electricity and magnetism
• Alexander Fleming – Scottish bacteriologist
  • discovered penicillin
  • awarded by the Nobel Prize
• Francis Crick and James Watson – discovered the structure of DNA
  • awarded by the Nobel Prize

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH IN USA

• Thomas Alva Edison – his most famous inventions – the electric light bulb, camera
• Samuel Morse – invented the telegraph, Morse code
• brothers Wright – built a powered, heavier-than-air flying machine
• Alexander Graham Bell – was born in Edinburgh, came to the USA as a teacher of speech for the deaf
  • his father – the inventor of visible speech
  • inventor of the telephone
• A.A. Michelson – determinated the speed of light
  • the first American scientist who won the Nobel Prize
• Henry Ford – a constructor of American most popular car
• Albert Einstein – the founder of the Theory of Relativity
• Neil Armstrong – the first man who landed and walked on the Moon
• Albert Bernhard Nobel – invented dynamite
  • a founder of the Nobel Prize