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Nicholas Copernicus – Copernican Revolution, shift in the field of astronomy from a geocentric
understanding of the universe, centered around Earth, to a heliocentric understanding, centered
around the Sun, as articulated by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th
century.
2. Charles Darwin: Delivering the Evolutionary Gospel - Traditionally, the Darwinian Revolution
was a revolution in scientific thought that took place in the years following the publication of
Darwin's findings on evolution. Darwin's analysis of the plants and animals he gathered led him
to question how species form and change over time. This work convinced him of the insight that
he is most famous for—natural selection.

3. Sigmund freud - Freud's revolution may be viewed as the discovery of a way of locating in the
mind objective entities which can be studied like physical things. inventing and developing the
technique of psychoanalysis; for articulating the psychoanalytic theory of motivation, mental
illness, and the structure of the subconscious; and for influencing scientific and popular
conceptions of human nature by positing that both normal and abnormal thought.

4. Albert Einstein: The Whole Package - The special theory of relativity, first described by Albert
Einstein, was merely a statement of the realization that we were wrong distances in space and
time are relative. They change depending on how fast you're moving.

5. Marie Curie: She Went Her Own Way - Indefatigable despite a career of physically demanding
and ultimately fatal work, she discovered polonium and radium, championed the use of
radiation in medicine and fundamentally changed our understanding of radioactivity. Curie was
born Marya Skłodowska in 1867 in Warsaw.

6. Isaac Newton: The Man Who Defined Science on a Bet- Isaac Newton (1642–1727) is best
known for having invented the calculus in the mid to late 1660s (most of a decade before Leibniz
did so independently, and ultimately more influentially) and for having formulated the theory of
universal gravity — the latter in his Principia, the single most important work in the
transformation of early modern natural philosophy into modern physical science. Yet he also
made major discoveries in optics beginning in the mid-1660s and reaching across four decades;
and during the course of his 60 years of intense intellectual activity he put no less effort into
chemical and alchemical research and into theology and biblical studies than he put into
mathematics and physics. He became a dominant figure in Britain almost immediately following
publication of his Principia in 1687, with the consequence that “Newtonianism” of one form or
another had become firmly rooted there within the first decade of the eighteenth century. His
influence on the continent, however, was delayed by the strong opposition to his theory of
gravity expressed by such leading figures as Christiaan Huygens and Leibniz, both of whom saw
the theory as invoking an occult power of action at a distance in the absence of Newton's having
proposed a contact mechanism by means of which forces of gravity could act. As the promise of
the theory of gravity became increasingly substantiated, starting in the late 1730s but especially
during the 1740s and 1750s, Newton became an equally dominant figure on the continent, and
“Newtonianism,” though perhaps in more guarded forms, flourished there as well. What physics
 textbooks now refer to as “Newtonian mechanics” and “Newtonian science” consists mostly of
results achieved on the continent between 1740 and 1800.
7. Nikola Tesla: Wizard of the Industrial Revolution - Serbian-American engineer and physicist
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and
application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and
developed AC generation and transmission technology.
8. Galileo Galilei: Discoverer of the Cosmos - He is renowned for his discoveries: he was the first to
report telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the phases
of Venus, and the rings of Saturn. He invented an early microscope and a predecessor to the
thermometer.
9. Ada Lovelace: The Enchantress of Numbers - About a century before Konrad Zuse designed the
first programmable computing machine, in the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer
programmer in the world. From a modern perspective, her work is visionary. In her lifetime, her
scientific contributions hardly attracted any attention.
10. Pythagoras: Math's Mystery Man - Quick Info. Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who made
important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. The theorem
now known as Pythagoras's theorem was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier but he
may have been the first to prove it.