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Robert Koch

Posted by beckydaw on 14th August 2007

Robert Koch

Robert Koch was awarded a Nobel Prize for Medicine for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis

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Fritz Haber

Posted by beckydaw on 14th August 2007

Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber revolutionized how ammonia was manufactured.

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Schrodinger’s Cat

Posted by beckydaw on 14th August 2007

I always had difficulty with getting my head around this!! Erwin Schrödinger did share a Nobel proze for his work in 1933

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Linus Pauling

Posted by beckydaw on 14th August 2007

Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling recieved his Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 for his work on the nature of the chemical bond.

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J J Thompson

Posted by beckydaw on 14th August 2007

Joseph John Thompson discovered the electron.

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James Chadwick

Posted by beckydaw on 14th August 2007

James Chadwick

James Chadwick was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935 for the discovery of the neutron

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Posted by beckydaw on 14th August 2007

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her work on X-ray crystallography.  To find out more click here

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Harry Kroto

Posted by beckydaw on 28th June 2007

Harold Kroto, Copyright © Scanpix

Harry Kroto is a British scientist.  He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996.  He was involved with the discovery of the C60 carbon allotrope.

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Dimitri Mendeleev

Posted by beckydaw on 24th June 2007

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Mendeleev is the “father of the periodic table”. 

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Marie Curie

Posted by beckydaw on 21st June 2007

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One of my inspriational figures in Science is Marie Curie. 

Click on this link to find out more about her

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