SCIENTISTS SUPER HEROES

Introduction

Take a moment to think about which inventions are most important to you.You will travel through the WORLD WIDE WEB in search of SCIENTSTS to make them SUPER HEROS

Task

Work collaboratively in small groups to research and gather important information about an SCIENTIST and his or her inventions by reading biographies and accessing online resources
Synthesize researched information into a trading card, each member of the group will create one card and download and send your creation to your teacher

Process

Step 1

First choose a scientist from the list below to research.

Recent Scientists of the Week

Howard Florey: Brought penicillin to the world
Henrietta Leavitt: The key to the size of the universe
Archimedes: A mind beyond his time
Stanley Milgram: The infamous Obedience Experiments
C. V. Raman: Color change allows harm-free health check of living cells
Rosalind Franklin: Shape-shifting DNA
Robert Boyle: A new science is born: chemistry
Carl Woese: Rewrote Earth’s history of life
Alfred Wegener: Shunned after he discovered that continents move
Henri Poincaré: Is the solar system stable?
Polly Matzinger: The dog whisperer who rewrote our immune system’s rules
Otto Guericke: In the 1600s found that space is a vacuum
Alister Hardy: Aquatic ape theory: our species evolved in water
Elizebeth Friedman: Became the world’s most famous codebreaker
Evangelista Torricelli: We live at the bottom of a tremendously heavy sea of air
Eudoxus: The first mathematical model of the universe
James Black: Revolutionized drug design with the Beta-blocker
Inge Lehmann: Discovered our planet’s solid inner core
Chen-Ning Yang: Shattered a fundamental belief of physicists
Robert Hooke: Unveiled the spectacular microscopic world
Barbara McClintock: A Nobel Prize after years of rejection
Pythagoras: The cult of numbers and the need for proof
J. J. Thomson: Discovered the electron
Johannes Kepler: Solved the mystery of the planets
Dmitri Mendeleev: Discovered 8 new chemical elements by thinking
Maurice Hilleman: Record breaking inventor of over 40 vaccines
Marie Curie: Won – uniquely – both the chemistry & physics Nobel Prizes
Jacques Cousteau: Marine pioneer, inventor, Oscar winner
Niels Bohr: Founded the bizarre science of quantum mechanics
Srinivasa Ramanujan: Untrained genius of mathematics
Milutin Milankovic: Proved Earth’s climate is regulated by its orbit
Antoine Lavoisier: The giant of chemistry who was executed
Emmy Noether: The greatest of female mathematicians, she unlocked a secret of the universe
Wilder Penfield: Pioneer of brain surgery; mapped the brain’s functions
Charles Nicolle: Eradicated typhus epidemics
Samuel Morse: The telegraph and Morse code
Jane Goodall: Major discoveries in chimpanzee behavior
John Philoponus: 6th century anticipation of Galileo and Newton
William Perkin: Youthful curiosity brought the color purple to all
Democritus: Atomic theory BC and a universe of diverse inhabited worlds
Susumu Tonegawa: Discovered how our bodies make millions of different antibodies
Cecilia Payne: Discovered that stars are almost entirely hydrogen and helium