Nativity Prep Academy NAME:
6th grade Science
Scientist Behind the Science
List of Scientists
6th grade Scientists
· Alfred Wegener (pg. 19) – Theory of Pangaea
· Harry Hess (pg. 25) – Proposed ocean floors moved
· J. Tuzo Wilson (pg. 32) – Theory of Plate Tectonics
· Friedrich Mohs (pg. 111) – Created the Mohs Hardness Scale
· Evangelista Torricelli (pg. 460) – Invented the Barometer
· Benjamin Franklin (pg. 460) – Demonstrated that lightning is a form of electricity
· Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (pg. 460) – Traveled 7 km in altitude studying the troposphere
· Auguste Piccard (pg. 461) – First to travel to the stratosphere (16 km)
7th grade Scientists
· Robert Hooke (pg. 7) – First to Observe Cells, Cell Theory
· Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (pg. 8, 246) – First to Observe Bacteria, Cell Theory
· Matthais Schlelden (pg. 10) – Claimed all plants are made of cells, Cell Theory
· Theodor Schwann (pg. 10) – Claimed all animals are made of cells, Cell Theory
· Rudolf Virchow (pg. 10) – Claimed cells form only from other cells, Cell Theory
· James Watson & Francis Crick (pg. 57) – Figured out structure of DNA
· Gregor Mendel (pg. 70) – Father of Genetics
· Walter Sutton (pg. 86) – Formation of sex cells
· Charles Darwin (pg. 137, 224) – Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
· Stephen Jay Gould & Niles Eldridge (pg. 150) – Theory of Punctuated Equilibria
· Francesco Redi (pg. 210) – Disproved Theory of Spontaneous Generation
· Louis Pasteur (pg. 211) – Disproved Theory of Spontaneous Generation
· Aristotle (pg. 219) – First to classify organisms
· Carolus Linnaeus (pg. 222) – Created Binomial Nomenclature naming system
· Alexander Fleming (pg. 293) – Discovered Penicillin
· T.W Engelmann (pg. 310) – Found clues about how light is involved in photosynthesis
· Jean-Baptiste Van Helmont (pg. 312) – Concluded plants only need water to survive
· Joseph Priestley (pg. 312) – Concluded plants release something into air that keeps candles burning
· Jan Ingenhousz (pg. 312) – Concluded plants need sunlight to produce oxygen
· Julius Sachs (pg. 313) – Discovered plants develop carbohydrates during photosynthesis
· Melvin Calvin (pg. 313) – Followed chemical path for photosynthesis
· Hermann Von Meyer (pg. 470) – Discovered the Archaeopteryx fossil
· Dr. William Beaumont (pg. 576) – Observed the role of the stomach in digestion
8th grade Scientists
· Galileo Galilei (pg. 40, 731, 742) – Stated that an object tin motion does not need a force to continue moving, observed moon features, proved Copernicus correct
· Sir Issac Newton (pg. 40, 743) – Discovered the 3 basic Laws of Motion, explained forces that keep planets in orbit
· Blaise Pascal (pg. 79) – Discovered pressure increases by the same amount throughout a confined fluid
· Archimedes (pg. 83) – Discovered the amount of fluid displaced by an object is equal to its buoyant force
· Wilbur & Orville Wright (pg. 89) – Fathers of Aviation
· Daniel Bernoulli (pg. 89) – Found that the faster a fluid moves, the less pressure it exerts
· James Prescott Joule (pg. 101) – Calculated amount of work for one unit of heat
· Albert Einstein (pg. 145) – Theory of Relativity
· James Watt (pg. 151) – Improved the steam engine
· Democritus (pg. 454) – Suggested everything was composed of atomos
· John Dalton (pg. 455) – Atomic Theory
· Robert Boyle (pg. 476) – Found when pressure on a gas is increased at a constant temperature, the volume decreases
· Jacques Charles (pg. 478) – Found when temperature on a gas is increased at a constant pressure, the volume increases
· Robert H. Goddard (pg. 726) – Showed liquid fuel can provide continuous power
· Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (pg. 726) – Came up with idea for multistage rockets
· Ptolemy (pg. 741) – Believed Earth was at the center of the solar system
· Nicolaus Copernicus (pg. 742) – Showed the sun was at the center of the solar system
· Tycho Brahe (pg. 742) – Made highly accurate observations of the positions of the planets
· Johannes Kepler (pg. 743) – Discovered the orbits of the planets was elliptical
· William Herchel (pg. 765) – Discovered Uranus
· Clyde Tombaugh (pg. 767) – Discovered Pluto
· James Christy (pg. 767) – Discovered Pluto’s moon, Charon
· Ejnar Hertzsprung & Henry Norris Russell (pg. 798) – Created graphs of temperature and brightness of stars
· Edwin Hubble (pg. 811) – Discovered that the farther away a galaxy, the faster it is moving