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Dmitri Mendeleev's best work is the "Principle of Chemistry." He is best known for his work on the periodic table. During Mendeleev's lifetime he assisted in the discovery of germanium, scandium, and gallium.

John Dalton was born into a poor family. He was born in Cumberland, England. He ended school at the age of 11. He learned alot of stuff on his own. At the age of 12 he started teaching others what he knew. He went to school to research weather. In 1810 he was elected into Britains premiere scientific organization. John Dalton was color blind. Many historians think that Dalton chose to study gasses because of his interest in meteorology.

Democritus didnt originate the atomic theory. He was one of the two founders of the atomic theory. He learned it from a man named Leucippus. Leucippus was Democrituses teacher and is the author of Big Cosmology but the book has since vanished. Some of the books contents can be described through Aristotle. Aristotle regarded Democritus as an important rival to natural philosophy. Democritus said that atoms are indestructible and completely full with no empty space. He said that since they are indestructible, atoms are eternal.



Aristotle was an ancient greek philospher born in Stagira, Northern Greece. He spent 20 years of his life studying at the academy devised by Plato. It is said that once Plato died, he returned to Macedonia to teach Phillip's son, ALexander The Great. During his life he tried to better the understanding of physics, philosophy, social order and morality, goverment, and politics. Aristotle has been credited as one of the greatest philosophers of all time.

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity by flying a kite with a key attatched to it in a thunderstorm. He learned that lightning is a flow of electrical energy through the atmosphere. This discovery influenced other 19 centery scientists to explore whether or not electrical energy could travel through gases other than the atmosphere.

Rutherford at age ten was already preforming experiments by using the speed of sound to measure the distance of a firing cannon. Won many scholarships in college. He discovered two separat types of emissions came from radioactive atoms which he named alpha and beta rays. He also made the nuclear model. He has made many more achievements and discovers over his life time that created the things we have and know today.



Amadeo Avagadro had a law degree was a professor of physics at the age 20. He has his on law that believes that equal volume of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same molecules.

Cavendish is credited with the discovery of inflammable air, unraveling the composition of water(isolating the Hydrogen iof atom) establishing the mean density of the earth to be 5,448, established an accurate composition of the atmosphere to be 79.167% pholgistreated air and 20.833% dephogisticated air. He also was a pioneer in the manipulation of gasses.



Antoine Lavoisier was a French chemist who became known as "The Father of Chemistry". He also created the Law of Conservation of Mass. Lavoisier contributed a lot to modern chemistry, and helped shape it into what it is today. He was beheaded in 1794 during the French Revolution.

J. J. Thomson attended Owens college at only 14. JJ Thomson's biggest acheivement would definitely be his discovery of the electron, in 1897. He discovered this while experimenting with cathode tubes, in an attempt to study electric charge. He later became a lecturer and professor.