Poll Results and facts about Scientists!

Dear friends,

from the poll that we posted a week ago, we have known that you want to know about 2 famous scientist as both had the highest votes.

Today, we are going to tell you about Elizabeth Blackwell and Galileo Galilei .

First, about Elizabeth Blackwell:

Elizabeth Blackwell was born on 3 February 1821 and died on 31 May 1910. She was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first openly identified woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in England.


Next, about Galileo Galilei :

Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564 and died at 8 January 1642. He  was an Italian physicist, mathematician,astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science".

His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instruments.

Galileo's championing of heliocentrism was controversial within his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or theTychonic system. He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism due to the absence of an observed stellar parallax.The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, and they concluded that it could be supported as only a possibility, not an established fact. Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It was while Galileo was under house arrest that he wrote one of his finest works, Two New Sciences, in which he summarised the work he had done some forty years earlier, on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials.

This is all that we have. It may be a little long but it is more or less informative enough and all this information is from Wikipedia.

More fun and interesting facts will be post next time. Bye:)

Regards,

Beatrice.