British Scientists and Inventions

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