Chapter 4 · Modern Society
British Scientists and Inventions
Source: Handbook p.85
Key British scientists and their contributions:
• Isaac Newton — laws of gravity and motion
• Michael Faraday — electricity and electromagnetism
• Charles Darwin — theory of evolution by natural selection (Origin of Species, 1859)
• Alexander Fleming — discovered penicillin (1928)
• Francis Crick — co-discovered DNA structure (1953)
• Alan Turing — code-breaking, father of computer science
• Tim Berners-Lee — invented the World Wide Web (1989)
• Stephen Hawking — black holes and cosmology
• John Logie Baird — demonstrated television
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