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The second person I chose was Archimedes. He too, had many outstanding achievements and features, but I’m only highlighting two important things. He had created some of the first and most famous simple machines; the pulley, lever, and fulcrum. They are actually still used today, and they are amazing inventions for his time.
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are influential people because of their fascinating, groundbreaking, scientific, and exceeding any other research on genetic editing. They are biologist scientist at Jennifer Doudna at the University of California in Berkeley and Emmanuelle Charpentier at Umea University in Sweden. Their genetic editing is called CRISPR it's a genetic editing that has advanced more than any other genetic editing. Where it took two years to use one now takes two weeks. They got the 2014 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research for CRISPR.
“My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work” (Biography.com Editors). Gregor Mendel changed history by how he was the one who discovered the principles of heredity. Gregor Mendel marked history when he discovered genetics and how they work. He was the man known as “The Father of Modern Genetics” (The Doc). He is worthy of research because we would not know that we get our traits from our parents, or how it happens.
But Franklin persisted on the DNA project. J. D. Bernal called her X-ray photographs of DNA, "the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken." Between 1951 and 1953 Rosalind Franklin came very close to solving the DNA structure. She was beaten to publication by Crick and Watson in part because of the friction between Wilkins and herself. At one point, Wilkins showed Watson one of Franklin 's crystallographic portraits of DNA.
For example, in 1921, Insulin was discovered at the University of Toronto, by Frederick Banting and Charles Best. Insulin was a treatment for those suffering with diabetes. Although Insulin couldn’t save patients from diabetes completely, it gave patients a few more years to live as indicated by Leonard Thompson. He was the first patient to receive a dose of insulin, and this resulted in his high blood glucose levels dropping to normal levels (American Diabetes Association, 2019). Their great discovery led them to win the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Joseph Lister contributed a major advancement in the science community. His research has a big role in modern medicine. His advancement has saved many patients lives since his
Artists during this period used science to study the body to improve on their images and depictions of the human body in their artworks. Similarly, architects and builders used math and science to make developments to their architecture. “The true geniuses of the time were often both artists and scientists” ("Renaissance Science and Inventions"). Science also had a great impact on writing of the time. Writers like Shakespeare mentioned science and new developments in their works numerous
He was also known for his experimentation
The Double Helix is four bases, two of the bases are bonded in pairs, for example “G with C” and “A with T”, they are arranged like steps on a spiral staircase inside two strands of sugar-phosphates running in opposite directions. James Watson and Francis Crick discovered this structure, they were also rewarded with the Nobel Prize. But Rosalind Franklin was the one
Sophia Greenwood Mrs. Rupertus 518-02 14 May 2023 Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Franklin was an innovative female scientist and most renowned for her studies with the double helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strands. Franklin was the first person to determine the arrangement of molecules in DNA using a technique called x-ray diffraction. X-ray diffraction is a method used to analyze the structure of materials at a molecular level and is a non-destructive procedure. (Encyclopedia Britannica - Britannica.com). Scholars today argue that James Watson and Francis Crick stole Franklin’s studies on the double helix, stating Watson and Crick used her unpublished data without Franklin’s permission or knowledge.
I really enjoyed learning that both Watson and Crick were not originally supposed to be studying DNA. Crick was originally studying x-ray diffraction (Watson, 1968, p. 8) and Watson was originally studying biochemistry (Watson, 1968, p. 21). The two scientists began their journey on learning more about DNA after Watson heard a lecture from Maurice (Watson, 1968, p. 33). Watson stated, “Immediately I began to wonder whether it would be possible for me to join Wilkins in working on DNA” (Watson, 1968, p. 22). I think this fact is incredibly fascinating.
Frank Press. Who I knew in the capacity of his being The Head of our Department at MIT. Science Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and Advisor to four United State
After that Charles Darwin, a talented biologist started
Albert Einstein, the creator of E=mc2. He was a famous scientist, but didn’t start out that way. Teachers thought that he was retarded. You have probably heard of his theories or contributions to the science world.
Isaac Newton “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ”-Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton was arguably one of the best/smartest Scientists in his time. When Isaac was born he wasn’t even expected to make it, but became one of the best Scientists in his time.
