文档介绍：Unit 1 Great Scientists
What do you know about great scientists? Try the quiz on P1 and find out who knows the most.
Warming up
scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float?
Archimedes (287-212 BC) an ancient Greek mathematician
阿基米德
wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed?
Charles Darwin (1808-1882) British biologist
author of The Origin of Species
invented the first steam engine?
Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) British, improved the first steam pump and turned it into a steam engine for taking water out of mines in 1712.
纽科门
发明蒸汽机的并不是瓦特，他是改进纽可门的蒸气机，并发明出双动式，使世界进入了“蒸气时代”。这使他成为第一次工业革命中的名气最大的发明家。
James Watt
(瓦特)
James Watt improved it and turned it into the first
modern steam engine used on the railways.
used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children?
Gregor Mendel
(1822-1884) Czech (捷克人) botanist and geneticist
孟德尔
discovered radium?
Marie Curie (1867-1934) (Polish and French, won two Nobel Prizes)
a chemist and physicist
invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities?
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
an American inventor
was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people?
Last Supper
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci 达芬奇
(1452-1519) Italian artist