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Foreign Scientists: Marie Skłodowska-Curie / Marie Curie

The document profiles several influential foreign scientists including Dr. Leo Henryk Sternbach who invented benzodiazepines, Marie Curie who was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes and discovered radium and polonium, and Galileo Galilei who is considered the founder of modern science and made discoveries in astronomy, mathematics, and physics. It also summarizes the contributions of Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, Alexander Fleming, and Rosalind Franklin who made important discoveries in fields including light, gravity, quantum mechanics, antibiotics, and the structure of DNA.

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Foreign Scientists: Marie Skłodowska-Curie / Marie Curie

The document profiles several influential foreign scientists including Dr. Leo Henryk Sternbach who invented benzodiazepines, Marie Curie who was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes and discovered radium and polonium, and Galileo Galilei who is considered the founder of modern science and made discoveries in astronomy, mathematics, and physics. It also summarizes the contributions of Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, Alexander Fleming, and Rosalind Franklin who made important discoveries in fields including light, gravity, quantum mechanics, antibiotics, and the structure of DNA.

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FOREIGN SCIENTISTS

Dr. Leo Henryk Sternbach


(May 7, 1908 September 28, 2005)


Inventor of benzodiazepines (Valium, Librium)
Changed medical science.













Marie Skodowska-Curie / Marie Curie
(7 November 1867 4 July 1934)

Winner of two nobel prizes
Discovered and coined the term radioactivity.
She discovered two new elements polonium
and radium.
She was the first to use radiation as a cancer
treatment.












Galileo Galilei
(February 15, 1564 January 8, 1642)

Considered to be the founder of modern
science.
1586 Invents hydrostatic balance
1593 Invents early thermometer that
depended on temperature & pressure
1595 Invents improved ballistics calculation
geometric & military copass
1609 Independently invents & improves
telescopes based on description of invention
by Hans Lippershey
1611 Discovers phases of Venus
Discovered mathematical principals.
Revolutionized astronomy (discovered
planets, rotations: Heliocentrism).








Sir Isaac Newton
(December 25, 1642 March 20, 1727)

First person to start to understand light.
Built the first practical reflecting telescope.
Made the Law of Universal Gravitation /
Came up with concept of gravity, and the
Laws of Motion.
Formulated an empirical Law of Cooling.
Studied the speed of sound.
Introduced the notion of a Newtonian fluid.








Niels Bohr
(October 7, 1885 November 18, 1962)


Physicist, one of the first to work in quantum
mechanics.
Discovered much about the atom such as
electrons orbit.
Developed the Bohr model of the atom.
Conceived the Principle of Complementarity















Alexander Fleming
(August 6, 1881 March 11, 1955)


Biologist, pharmacologist and botanist
Discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923
Discovered the antibiotic substance penicillin
in 1928













Rosalind Franklin
(July 25, 1920 April 16, 1958)


Best known for discovering the structure of
DNA.
Helped discover structures of RNA and viruses.

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