https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q en-us 2018-03-13 15:30:34 UTC 2026-01-07 20:17:59 UTC hello@padlet.com 304567 https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442175 2018-03-13 15:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442175 304567 https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442242 James Hutton, (born June 3, 1726, Edinburgh, Scotland—died March 26, 1797, Edinburgh), Scottish geologist, chemist, naturalist, and originator of one of the fundamental principles of geology—uniformitarianism, which explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time.]]> 2018-03-13 15:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442242 304567 https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442310 Contributions and Achievements: His only known work is his didactic epic poem, “De rerum natura” (On the Nature of Things), that consisted of six volumes and conveys the ideas of Epicureanism. He wrote about diverse things such as atoms and the void, our modes of perception, and our will.]]> 2018-03-13 15:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442310 304567 https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442562 Carl Linnaeus is famous for his work in Taxonomy, the science of identifying, naming and classifying organisms (plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, etc.). He was born in 1707, the eldest of five children, in a place called Råshult, in Sweden.]]> 2018-03-13 15:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442562 304567 https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442806 He Helped Discover Evolution, And Then Became Extinct. The research of British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) played a pivotal role in developing the theory of natural selection. But over time, Charles Darwin became almost universally thought of as the father of evolution. ]]> 2018-03-13 15:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442806 304567 https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442923 James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.]]> 2018-03-13 15:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442923 304567 https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442981 Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift - the idea that Earth's continents move. Despite publishing a large body of compelling fossil and rock evidence for his theory between 1912 and 1929, it was rejected by most other scientists. It was only in the 1960s that continental drift. ]]> 2018-03-13 15:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241442981 304567 https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241443121 Stanley Lloyd Miller was an American chemist who made landmark experiments in the origin of life by demonstrating that a wide range of vital organic compounds can be synthesized by fairly simple chemical processes from inorganic substances.]]> 2018-03-13 15:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/304567/5v7xiy0qqe0q/wish/241443121