Scientist Research Essay
Form a group, pick a scientist from the list below and prepare an introduction to that scientist for the class or you may pick your own scientist.
The information may be:
- A video (youtube, TikToc etc.)
- A podcast
- A PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation
- A written report
- Any other format you might decide to use
The report should include:
– Name of the scientist
– Dates of Birth and Death
– Where the scientist was born
– Field of study of the scientist
– Contributions of the scientist
– Any honors the scientist won or was passed over for.
– Discussion of the life of the scientist, focusing on how the scientist was different from the typical scientists we hear about and any challenges the scientist faced.
– What aspect of the scientist’s life had the most impact on you?
– How could the scientist’s professional journey influence your professional journey?
– What part of the scientist’s career surprised you the most
- Ada Lovelace
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Rosalind Franklin
- Vera Rubin
- Gladys West
- Katherine Freese
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Lise Meitner
- Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyà ibn aṣ-Ṣā’igh at-Tūjībī ibn Bājja (Arabic: أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ التجيبي بن باجة), best known by his Latinised name Avempace
- Abu’l Hassan Ali ibn Ridwan Al-Misri (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان المصري
- Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam ibn Muḥammad Ibn Shujāʿ (Latinized as Auoquamel,[1] Arabic: أبو كامل شجاع بن أسلم بن محمد بن شجاع, also known as al-ḥāsib al-miṣrī—lit. “the Egyptian reckoner”)
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī (Arabic: أبو العبّاس أحمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني also known as Alfraganus
- Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham
- Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji (also spelled Nur al-Din Ibn Ishaq al-Betrugi and Abu Ishâk ibn al-Bitrogi) (known in the West by the Latinized name of Alpetragius)
- Francisca Nneka Okeke
- Benjamin Banneker
- Alberto Pedro Calderón
- Pedro Nunes
- Victor Neumann-Lara
- Mary Golda Ross
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Alan Turing
- Henrietta Leavitt
- Zhang Heng (Chinese: 張衡; AD 78–139)
- Shen Kuo
