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His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes).
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Flowerlover had it right except for a bad typo ...\n\nHe was born in Montrose, Scotland, on December 21, 1773. He wad a famous botanist but is known more widely as the first observer of the phenomenon that is now called "Brownian Movement".
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1.Alexander Fleming : micro-organisms/microbes\n\nhis discovery of penicillin\n\n2.Carl Linné: taxonomy\n \nGood classification of plants and their species/discovered new species\n\n\n3.Charles Darwin : human origins\n\ntheory of evolution\n\n4. Santiago Ramón y Cajal : neurobiology\n\nanalyzed almost the whole human nervous system\n\n5. Gregor Mendel : genetics\n\ntheories of heredity
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Many years ago in the 1700s Carl Linnaeus, the "Father of Botany", was collecting plants to add to his great collection. This collection was important as it helped him compare and classify the plants of the world following his new system. Like scientists everywhere, even today, he relied on colleagues (people in his field) and acquaintances and friends to help him find specimens of plants wherever they went.\n\nYou may have heard of one of Linnaeus' young friends already, Peter Kalm. Peter Kalm was the fellow who came here to North America to collect plants. The Mountain Laurel in our Schoolyard Habitat, the very State Flower of Connecticut, is named after him! Kalmia latifolia is the botanical name. Peter respected Linnaeus and worked to help him complete his great project.\n\nOn the trip that this story is about Peter was going to Russia to the great center of St Petersburg. He was going there with another supporter of Linnaeus, the baronet Sten Carl Bielke, who had family business to attend to in the city.. Bielke was, together with Linnaeus, one of the five founders of the Swedish Academy of Sciences (founded in 1739). Bielke worked very hard to arrange to have seeds and pressed plant specimens sent back to Linnaeus. Unfortunately, the circle of scientists interested in botany in St Petersburg were headed by one of Linnaeus' worst enemies, J. E. Siegesbeck, who in 1737 had written an article trashing Linnaeus' new system. When Linnaeus had read this attack on his classification system (Siegesbeck wasn't very nice about it) he was very hurt. Linnaeus had written many friendly letters to him over the years, even named a plant after him! How would you have felt?\n\nSo great were the diplomatic and persuasive powers of the baronet he actually got Siegebeck to give him some plants and seeds he wanted for Linnaeus. He had to promise to send some seeds back to St Petersburg in return though.\n\nThis is one of the pressed plants sent to Linnaeus by Bielke.\n\nLinnaeus was told he should send Siegesbeck some seeds...so he did. In fact he sent Siegesbeck seeds of the plant that had been named after him....Siegesbeckia. \nBut on the envelope he had added two more words in Latin. \nHe wrote "Cuculus ingratus", which means "the ungrateful cuckoo". \n\nIf you don't know about cuckoos I should tell you they seem unpleasant birds to most people as they lay their egg in other birds nests, they are parasites. When the one cuckoo egg hatches it pushes to their death the other chicks and eggs. The poor stupid parent birds work their wings to the bone bringing up a giant cuckoo child instead of their own kind. Do you see the connection between Linnaeus writing letters to that man, probably discussing his scientific ideas and sharing his thoughts, and the cuckoo baby eating food that was not fairly gotten?\n\nPoor baronet Bielke! How could he ever hope to get more plants and seeds from the botanists of St Petersburg now that their leader had been so insulted? He tried to get Linnaeus to be a better man and bring the feud to an end.Linnaeus instead sent more seeds to the man who had so hurt him...and this time the envelope was marked "ingratissimus cuculus", the MOST ungrateful cuckoo!\n\nAt that point, Bielke had already acquired about 600 plants. From the embarrassment Linnaeus must have caused the good baronet I should think he might have named a dozen plants after him!
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Linnaeus used structural similarities. Unfortunately, this led to many, we know now, illogical classifications. For instance, anemones (animals) and mushrooms (fungi) were classified as plants.\n\nBut, he did come up with a very workable/useable system.
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Here are a few:\nAntony Leeuwenhoek - considered the father of microbiology\nRobert Hooke - made the 1st compound microscope and coined the term "cell"\nJames Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin - DNA
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Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who was a proponent of the view of an Earth in daily motion about its axis and in yearly motion around a stationary sun. This theory profoundly altered later workers' view of the universe, but was rejected by the Catholic church.
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This is pasage of biblography of my project\n\nGregor Mendel (1822-1884)\nSeung Yon Rhee \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThe theories of heredity attributed to Gregor Mendel, based on his work with pea plants, are well known to students of biology. But his work was so brilliant and unprecedented at the time it appeared that it took thirty-four years for the rest of the scientific community to catch up to it. The short monograph, Experiments with Plant Hybrids, in which Mendel described how traits were inherited, has become one of the most enduring and influential publications in the history of science. \n\nMendel, the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing, was not a world-renowned scientist of his day. Rather, he was an Augustinian monk who taught natural science to high school students. He was the second child of Anton and Rosine Mendel, farmers in Brunn, Moravia. Mendel's brilliant performance at school as a youngster encouraged his family to support his pursuit of a higher education, but their resources were limited, so Mendel entered an Augustinian monastery, continuing his education and starting his teaching career. \n\nMendel's attraction to research was based on his love of nature. He was not only interested in plants, but also in meteorology and theories of evolution. Mendel often wondered how plants obtained atypical characteristics. On one of his frequent walks around the monastery, he found an atypical variety of an ornamental plant. He took it and planted it next to the typical variety. He grew their progeny side by side to see if there would be any approximation of the traits passed on to the next generation. This experiment was "designed to support or to illustrate Lamarck's views concerning the influence of environment upon plants." He found that the plants' respective offspring retained the essential traits of the parents, and therefore were not influenced by the environment. This simple test gave birth to the idea of heredity. \n\nMendel's research reflected his personality. Once he crossed peas and mice of different varieties "for the fun of the thing," and the phenomena of dominance and segregation "forced themselves upon notice." He saw that the traits were inherited in certain numerical ratios. He then came up with the idea of dominance and segregation of genes and set out to test it in peas. It took seven years to cross and score the plants to the thousand to prove the laws of inheritance! From his studies, Mendel derived certain basic laws of heredity: hereditary factors do not combine, but are passed intact; each member of the parental generation transmits only half of its hereditary factors to each offspring (with certain factors "dominant" over others); and different offspring of the same parents receive different sets of hereditary factors. Mendel's work became the foundation for modern genetics. \n\nThe impact of genetic theory is no longer questioned in anyone's mind. Many diseases are known to be inherited, and pedigrees are typically traced to determine the probability of passing along an hereditary disease. Plants are now designed in laboratories to exhibit desired characteristics. The practical result of Mendel's research is that it not only changed the way we perceive the world, but also the way we live in it. \n\nI Hope u get ur answer for more halp contect on don_turtel@yahoo.com Whish u all the bet for homework-project
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Einstein was a genius.  Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century. He independently developed the special and general theories of relativity and made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "wonderful year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".\n\nAfter British solar eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed that light rays from distant stars were deflected by the gravity of the Sun in the amount he had predicted in his theory of relativity, Einstein became world-famous, an unusual achievement for a scientist. In his later years, his fame perhaps exceeded that of any other scientist in history. In popular culture, his name has become synonymous with great intelligence and genius.
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The Masterpiece of not only Nature but of all that there is;\n\n"Is a friend that sticks closer than a brother"\n\nProverbs 18.24\n\n!
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Agostine Monk and Abbot, Gregor Mendel, did more to advance the science of change and evolution with his plant studies.  He's considered the Father of Genetics.  He actually made "intellgent design" in plants possible.\n\nThen there's Father Georges-Henri Lemaître a Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of physics and astronomer.  He gave us the Big Bang theory.\n\nIsn't it funny how the actually scientific theories are conjured up by Religious Priests.
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I don't think so... usually in biographical information listed in encyclopedias it is documented if they were... it says that he settled down but I believe that is only in reference to remaining in one place for the remainder of his life.\n\n\nConrad von Gessner (Konrad Gessner, Conrad Geßner, Conrad von Gesner, Conradus Gesnerus) (26 March 1516–13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist. His three-volume Historiae Animalium (1555-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria (Gesneriaceae) is named after him.\n\n \nConrad GessnerBorn and educated in Zürich, he was the son of a furrier. After the death of his father at the Battle of Kappel (1531), he was very short of money. He had good friends, however, in his old master, Oswald Myconius, and subsequently in Heinrich Bullinger, and he was enabled to continue his studies at the universities of Strassburg and Bourges (1532-1533); in Paris, he found a generous patron in the person of Job Steiger of Berne.\n\nIn 1535, religious unrest drove him back to Zürich, where he made an imprudent marriage. His friends again came to his aid, enabled him to study at Basel (1536), and in 1537 obtained for him the professorship of Greek at the newly founded academy of Lausanne (then belonging to Berne). Here he had leisure to devote himself to scientific studies, especially botany. In 1540-1541 he visited the famous medical university of Montpellier, took his degree of doctor of medicine (1541) at Basel, and then settled down to practise at Zürich, where he obtained the post of lecturer in physics at the Carolinum. There, apart from a few journeys to foreign countries, and annual summer botanical journeys in his Gessner was the first to document the pencil in 1565. native land, he passed the remainder of his life. He devoted himself to preparing works on many subjects of different sorts. He died of the plague, the year after his ennoblement.\n\nTo his contemporaries he was best known as a botanist, though his botanical manuscripts were not published till long after his death (at Nuremberg, 1751-1771, 2 vols. folio), he himself issuing only the Enchiridion historiae plantarum (1541) and the Catalogus plantarum (1542) in four languages. In 1545 he published his remarkable Bibliotheca universalis (ed. by J. Simler, 1574), supposedly a catalogue (in Latin, Greek and Hebrew) of all writers who had ever lived, with the titles of their works, etc. A second part, Pandectarium sive partitionum universalium Conradi Gesneri Ligurini libri xxi, appeared in 1548; only nineteen books being then concluded. The last, a theological encyclopaedia, was published in 1549, but the last but one, intended to include his medical work, was never finished.\n\n \nTitlepage of first volume of Historiae animalium.His great zoological work, Historiae animalium, appeared in 4 vols. (quadrupeds, birds, fishes) folio, 1551-1558, at Zürich, a fifth (snakes) being issued in 1587 (there is a German translation, entitled Thierbuch, of the first 4 vols., Zürich, 1563): this work is the starting-point of modern zoology. Not content with such vast works, Gessner put forth in 1555 his book entitled Mithridates de differentis linguis, an account of about 130 known languages, with the Lord's Prayer in twenty-two languages, while in 1556 appeared his edition of the works of Claudius Aelianus.\n\nTo non-scientific readers, Gessner is best known for his love of mountains (below the snow-line) and for his many excursions among them, undertaken partly as a botanist, but also for the sake of exercise and enjoyment of the beauties of nature. In 1541 he prefixed to his Libellus de lacte et operibus lactariis a letter addressed to his friend, J. Vogel, of Glarus, as to the wonders to be found among the mountains, declaring his love for them, and his firm resolve to climb at least one mountain every year, not only to collect flowers, but in order to exercise his body. In 1555 Gessner is
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All the Botanical names are in Latin language because  name. Names created by an early botanist named Carl Von Linne-a Swede, who developed the naming process based on classifications of similarities called binomial system of nomenclature.He decided to express the names using Latin as the language. Latin was and is still a dead language because no one uses it therefore it remains constant.Plants or animals have their scientific name in Latin to reduce any regional confusions. Any scientific name remains constant whether it is said in England, Pakistan, Argentina or any other country. A Lobelia is Lobelia, no matter where it grows or how many local or regional common names might exist for it.Carl Von Linne even changed his name as Carolus Linnaeus.
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So little known?? I've seen television shows about him, read numerous articles in mainstream periodicals, learned about him in many of my college courses...I don't know why you think he is little known-other than the fact that very few of the great physicists are well known by the general public, except for Einstein and Hawking, and maybe Curie.
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Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist,chemist, inventor, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists and mathematicians in history.\n\nNewton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica wherein he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from this system, he was the first to show that the motion of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws. The unifying and deterministic power of his laws was integral to the scientific revolution and the advancement of heliocentrism.\n\nAmong other scientific discoveries, Newton realized that the spectrum of colours observed when white light passes through a prism is inherent in the white light and not added by the prism (as Roger Bacon had claimed in the 13th century), and notably argued that light is composed of particles. He also developed a law of cooling, describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air. He enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of stars. Despite this renown in mainstream science, Newton spent more time working on either alchemy or chemistry, than physics.\n\nNewton played a major role in the history of calculus, sharing credit with Gottfried Leibniz. He also made contributions to other areas of mathematics, for example the generalized binomial theorem. The mathematician and mathematical physicist Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), said that "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish." 20\n \n\n\nBiography\nEarly years\nThe life of Isaac Newton Early life Writing Principia Later life Religious views Occult studies  \nNewton was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth (at Woolsthorpe Manor), a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. Newton was born prematurely, and no one expected him to live; indeed, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, is reported to have said that his body at that time could have fit inside a quart mug (Bell, 1937). His father, Isaac, had died three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was two, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother.\n\nAccording to E.T. Bell (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:\n\nNewton began his schooling in the village schools and was later sent to The Kings Grammar School (Grantham) where he became the top boy in the school. At Kings he lodged with the local apothecary, William Clarke and eventually became engaged to the apothecary's stepdaughter, Anne Storer, before he went off to Cambridge University at the age of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storer married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but Newton had no other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. \nHowever, William Stukeley and Mrs Vincent, the source which Bell and Eves have embroidered so unhelpfully, merely say that Newton entertained 'a passion' for her while he lodged at the Clarke house. Mrs Vincent's maiden name was Katherine Storer, not Anne.\n\n \nEngraving after Enoch Seeman's 1726 portrait of NewtonFrom the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King's School in Grantham (where his signature can still be seen upon a library window sill). He was removed from school and by Oct 1659 he was to be found at Woolsthorpe where his mother attempted to make a farmer of him. He was, by later reports of his contemporaries, thoroughly unhappy with the work. It appears to be Henry Stokes, master at the Ki
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Early Nineteenth-century naturalist author and artist.  His name was John James Audubon.  He is best known for his closely observed large scale paintings of birds.  "The Birds of America" was a well-known work of his.  He travelled and explored extensively as part of his work.\n\nHere's a couple from The National Gallery of Art:  http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?129208+0+0\n\nhttp://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?32223+0+0\n\nYou may have heard of the conservationist group, the Audubon Society.  It is named after him.  \n\nI have linked to a website related to an exhibition about him from the New York Historical Society.  There you can see a few of his paintings, learn more about him, and follow further links if you are interested.
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I've been to the National Arboretum and it is nice.  The Missouri Botanical Garden is the largest in the United States and it is wonderful!\n\nHey Djddan, I now see that you are the one who was asking all of those taxonomy questions.  I am a botanist and that is an area of interest of mine.  If you have any other questions you can reach me at wjlabarre@yahoo.com\n\nBut, I really recommend that book I told you about - "The Variety of Life," by Coin Tudge.  It will clear up a lot for you and give you a broad understanding of classifying organisims.  It's an excellent book.  I looked at the wikipedia site you saw and you were right, it's not that clear.