Get to know the greatest scientists that changed the world as we know it through their contributions and discoveries.
are the best-known example: From island to island, finches of the same species possessed differently shaped beaks, each adapted to the unique sources of food available on each island.
, published in 1859 when Darwin was 50 years old. The 500-page book sold out immediately, and Darwin would go on to produce six editions, each time adding to and refining his arguments. We owe much of our modern electrified life to the lab experiments of the Serbian-American engineer, born in 1856 in what’s now Croatia. His designs advanced alternating current at the start of the electric age and allowed utilities to send current over vast distances, powering American homes across the country. He developed— a high-voltage transformer — and techniques to transmit power wirelessly. Cellphone makers are just now utilizing the potential of this idea.
The real blow from religious officials came in 1633, after Galileo published a comparison of the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems that made the latter’s believers look foolish. They placed him under house arrest until his death in 1642, the same year Isaac Newton was born.
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