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RECOGNISED SCIENTISTS

From researching our cells, looking at our DNA, and researching the evolution of animals, scientists from all over the world have discovered and proved theory upon theory on the way the world works, from our own bodies and how the DNA is structured, to modern day scientists proving that there are six kingdoms and three domains.

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Ernst Boris Chain

Ernst Boris Chain

A German scientist, Chain helped Alexander Fleming to develop penicillin, and helping to make it able to be used more widspread.

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Francis Crick

Francis Crick was one of four scientists to discover and render the DNA double helix.

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Francis Crick
Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin was a naturist that made us understand the evolution and origin of species.

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Sir Alexander Fleming

Discovered the use of penicillin, through cultures with bacteria.

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SIr Alexander Fleming
Sir Howard Florey

Sir Howard Florey

Another scientist working with Fleming to help develop penicillin for the wider world.

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Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin was one of four scientists to discover and render the DNA double helix.

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Rosalind Franklin
Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

Developed the first vaccinations, including small pox and cow pox.

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John Langdon Down

A British physician, Down localised and discovered the syndrome named after him.

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John Langdon Down
Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus

A Swedish naturist, Carl Linnaeus set up taxonomy (classification), whereby he named everything that was natural in a system.

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Joseph Lister

Discovered antiseptics and introduced antisepsis, the preparation for surgery.

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Joseph Lister
Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock

An American geneticist, McClintock discovered that chromosomes can shift pattern to activate or deactivate the next one.

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Gregor Mendel

Considered the father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel researched the way dominant and recessive genes worked.

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Gregor Mendel

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was a scientist who found out a way to remove bacteria from food and drink.

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Louis Pasteur
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

A British naturist, Wallace depicted an imaginary line that shows evolution between two distinct types of biome.

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James Watson

James Watson was one of four scientists to discover and render the DNA double helix.

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James Watson

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