People
Dione Rossiter
is a scientist that participated in a research expedition to understand the climate of the southeastern Pacific in fall, 2008 - the VOCALS campaign. She got to fly a her scientific instrument aboard a research aircraft above a layer of stratocumulus cloud that seemed to go on forever.
Florence Bascom
Florence Bascom was one of the first female geologists in the United States and her fellow scientists thought she was one of the nation’s most important geologists. She lived from 1862 until 1945 and is well known for her work at Bryn Mawr College where she taught for many years.
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived between 384-322 B.C. He was one of the greatest thinkers of the world and his written works encompassed all major areas of thought.
Vannevar Bush
(March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974)
was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
a British astronomer who was born in 1943. She discovered pulsars - stars which emit periodic radio waves - in 1967. Burnell was a graduate student at Cambridge University when she discovered pulsars. Her professor, Antony Hewish, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for her discovery.
Eratosthenes
was a Greek scientist who lived from 276 to 194 B.C. He studied astronomy, geography, and math. Eratosthenes is famous for making the first good measurement of the size of the Earth. This portrait, drawn long after he was dead, shows what the artist thought he might have looked like.
