8 Important Scientists and Their Discoveries

"From Sir Isaac Newton, to the men and women behind the Manhattan project, These are 8 of the Most Important Scientists and their Discoveries

8. Sir Isaac Newton - Gravity - 1687
Everyone remembers the story of Newton and the apple falling from the tree. Many have claimed it was just a myth and a feel good story, but there is evidence of it in Britain’s Royal Society Archives.
""After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank thea, under the shade of some apple trees...he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself...""
the concept of gravity has existed since the universe began, but our understanding of it was solidified into a physical law in 1687 when Sir Isaac Newton published the “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”

7.Michael Faraday - Electric Current/Generator
As Jesse Pinkman once said “Yeah B*$&H, MAGNETS”, so did Michael Faraday.
Except in Faraday’s case, his statement was monumental. He is considered to be one of the most influential scientists in history due to his research into electromagnetic fields. He pretty much laid out the groundwork for electricity.
The most intriguing part of Faraday’s life is the fact he received little formal education and his mathematical abilities were limited to the simplest form of algebra. What he did have was the uncanny ability to experiment and convey his ideas in an easy to understand way.

6.Nikola Tesla - AC Current

Did you know that Tesla worked for Thomas Edison at one point? He even redesigned the direct current electric generators that were supposed to be the best in the world. He completed the work and after a dispute over payment, Tesla left Edison’s company on bad terms, heck you could say that he even held a grudge
Things didn’t work out so well for him for the next few years, until two investors from New York decided to give him money capital.
At that point, the real “War of Currents” started. It was Edison’s Direct Current vs Tesla’s Alternating Current. Needless to say, Tesla won.
Tesla was much more than an inventor, he had a mind for a different future. He wanted wireless electricity, he wanted radio controlled machinery and he believed in the existence of a “death ray”.
Tesla’s life can be summarized in short as the “mad scientist.”

5.Louis Pasteur -
You ever drink pasteurized milk? You ever wonder why it’s called pasteurized? It is because of Louis Pasteur. He discovered that heating up certain foods and drinks destroyed most of the bad bacteria that caused spoilage.
He also discovered the cause of fermentation, which opened the door for all those different tasty wines and micro brews, because people realized that different microorganisms cause different end products during the fermentation process.

4.Alexander Fleming - Penicillin
Alexander Fleming as a Scottish biologist who kind of stumbled across the first instance of an antibiotic... ever
To quote him, ""When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer,"" Fleming would later say, ""But I suppose that was exactly what I did.""
It is impossible to say with certainty how many lives have been saved because of penicillin, but a general estimate is between 82 million to 200 million !
Even though he was the first person to cultivate penicillin, it took a big team from Oxford a few more years to figure out how to produce the product for the masses.

3.James Watson and Francis Crick - DNA
Since 1869, physicists believed that a “giant hereditary molecule” existed, it wasn’t until 1953 that
James Watson and Francis Crick gave us the first correct model of DNA Structure.

2.Albert Einstein - Theory of Relativity

There might never be enough said about the extraordinary mind of Albert Einstein.
He created a whole new way of looking at our world, and his most famous equation is
E=mc2 , which means that the energy equals mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light. In simple words, tiny amounts of mass can hold INSANE amounts of energy.
It would be a disservice to the man to try and explain his genius in a short video, so I will leave this segment with one of his own quotes

1.Manhattan Project - The Atomic Bomb

Formed in 1939 by the U.S. Government, the Manhattan Project was a group of the brightest physicists in the world who had one mission. Create the ultimate weapon through splitting atoms.
As we all know, they succeeded, and the most powerful show of force happened at 9:15AM, on August 6, 1945 when a B-29 plane dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima.
Around 60 to 70 thousand people were killed, 140 thousand were injured, and half of the city was in ruins."