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Pierre de la Ramee (Peter Ramus) Paris 1536 (MA) |
His thesis was titled "the authority of Aristotle are overelaborate, contrived, and artificia"l. Studied under a Dominican Priest. Philosophical writings lead to his dissmissal by the church to teach ever. Was overturned by a friend later. Responsible for the revival of math, geometry, astronomy, and physcis into educational curriculum. Died in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. |
Philosophy Mathematics Theology |
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Henricus (Henri) Brucaeus College Royal, Paris 1550 |
Texts include subjects on plague, scurvy, and math of spheres and motion | Medicine Mathematics |
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Petrus (Pieter) Pauw University of Rostock, Germany 1587 (MD) |
Introduce a text on skeletal anatomy, especially facial and intestinal. | Medicine | |
Menelaus Winsemius Leiden, Holland 1613 (MD) |
Professor of anatomy, botany (a common subject in medicine for drug source), and medicine. | Botanist Medicine |
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Johannes A. Van Der Linden University of Franeker, Holland 1630 (MD) |
Books include subjects on physiology, milk, and venereal disease. | Medicine Botanist |
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Petrus (Peter) Hoffvenius Leiden, Holland 1660 (MD) |
Father of Swedish Medicine. Studied the pineal gland and respiration. |
Medicine | |
Petrus (Per) Elvius (older) Uppsala, Sweden 1688 (MA) |
Designed a Copernican planetarium. First to give lectures in Swedish instead of Latin. |
Astonomy Physics |
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Anders Gabriel Duhre Uppsala, Sweden 1711 |
Wrote the first textbook on Algebra in Swedish. |
Mathematics Physics |
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Samuel Klingenstierna Uppsala, Sweden 1717 |
First to develop the theory for designing achromatic spherical lenses without aberrations. |
Physics |
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Bengt Ferrner Uppsala, Sweden 1751 |
Was an industrial spy for the King of Sweden while in England Designed the astronomical instruments to view Halley' comet. |
Astronomy Physics |
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Torbern Olaf Bergman Uppsala, Sweden 1758 |
First to use diagrams and symbols to explain chemical reactions instead of prose. Credited as the founder of Quantitative Analysis and establishment of geology as a scientific discipline. Defended his first thesis under the direction of Carl Nilsson Linne First to classify rock: uråldrige (primative), flolägrige (bedded), hopvräkta (swept-together), and vulkaner (volcanic). Butterfly (Phalaena Tortrix Bergmanniana Lediana), Mineral (torbernite) and lunar crater (Bergman) named for him. |
Geology Physics Chemistry |
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Johann Afzelius Uppsala, Sweden 1776 |
Isolated formic acid from ants, and studied the chemistry of nickel and oxalic acid. | ||
Jons Jacob Berzelius Uppsala, Sweden 1802 |
First to use one or two letter symbols for elements instead of Dalton's symbols Placed the elements in order of the way they take up charge (electronegativity), so Oxygen was first and Potassium last. First to discover Cesium, Selenium, and Thorium |
Chemistry | |
Fredrich Wohler Heidelberg, Germany 1823 |
First to isolate Beryllium Disproved the theory of "vitalism", that organic material could not be synthesized from inorganic minerals and rock, by sythesizing Urea from Ammonium Cyanate (1828) |
Inorganic Chemistry | |
Heinrich Limpricht Gottingen, Germany 1850 |
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Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig Gottingen, Germany 1858 |
Wurtz-Fittig Reaction | Organic Chemistry | |
Ira Remsen Gottingen, Germany 1870 |
First Chemistry Chair at John Hopkins University 1878 with Postdoctoral Fahlberg, they discovered saccharin President of John Hopkins 1901-1912 |
Organic Chemistry | |
Elmer P. Kohler John Hopkins, Maryland 1892 |
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James Bryant Conant Harvard, Massachutes 1916 |
"Conant's 'several lives' included periods as a chemistry instructor, University president, national director of defense research, ambassador to Germany and as an author of critical works examining secondary education in the United States." | Physical/Organic Chemistry | |
Louis F. Fieser Harvard, Massachutes 1924 |
Inventor of Napalm, which originally was made of aluminum naphthenate and aluminum palmita | Organic Chemistry | |
William Garfield Dauben Harvard, Massachutes 1944 |
"Professor Dauben's research interests centered primarily on the structure and synthesis of alicyclic compounds, with particular emphasis on stereochemistry and photochemistry. He was known for his work on polyene photochemistry, particularly with vitamin D." U.C. Berkeley | Organic Chemistry | |
John H. Richards University of California, Berkely 1955 |
http://www.caltech.edu/news/john-h-richards-1930-2015-46693 | Organic Chemistry | |
Elgin Alexander Hill California Institute of Technology 1961 |
http://alchemy.chem.uwm.edu/research/hill/ | Physical Organic Chemistry | |
Michael L. Gross University of Minnesota 1966 |
http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/faculty/mgross | Physical Organic Chemistry | |
David H. Russell Texas A&M University 1978 |
http://www.chem.tamu.edu/rgroup/russell/ | Mass Spectrometry |