{"id":187,"date":"2019-02-13T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T11:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.praxilabs.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:32:28","slug":"5-of-the-greatest-scientists-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/5-of-the-greatest-scientists-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"5 of The Greatest Scientists in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In this article, we are going to mention some of the greatest scientists in history who had beneficial impact on human life and had provided various innovations and discoveries that lead to all the giant leaps in our history. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Throughout different ages, science and scientists have always played an active role in history. This role affected various sides of peoples\u2019 lives: economically, socially, and nationally. With scientific power, nations will be able to lead global economy by owning developed industries and will also be able to develop their military arsenal with the latest equipment and thus provide a safe society. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">There have also been many influential scientists in the history of mankind. This influence has always been a double-edged sword. For example, some of them contributed to the discovery of a medicine for some of the most catastrophic diseases, whereas other scientists symbolized disasters to humanity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton\" href=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/request-free-demo\"><span class='mb-text'>Try PraxiLabs Virtual Lab for Free!<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\r\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\r\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\r\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\r\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/5-of-the-greatest-scientists-in-history\/#Marie_Curie\" >Marie Curie<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/5-of-the-greatest-scientists-in-history\/#Trio_Francis_Crick_James_Watson_and_Maurice_Wilkins\" >Trio Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/5-of-the-greatest-scientists-in-history\/#Nikola_Tesla\" >Nikola Tesla<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\r\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Marie_Curie\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Marie Curie<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She was born in Warsaw in 1867 A.C., in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, a part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw&#8217;s clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister Bronis\u0142awa to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with the physicist Henri Becquerel. She also won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-188 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ebb3bc5c5d58220590bfd0511d1d5b77-pierre-curie-nobel-prize-in-physics-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marie Curie\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ebb3bc5c5d58220590bfd0511d1d5b77-pierre-curie-nobel-prize-in-physics-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ebb3bc5c5d58220590bfd0511d1d5b77-pierre-curie-nobel-prize-in-physics.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Marie Curie was the first woman to win a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nobel Prize<\/a><\/span>, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. Moreover, she was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and, in 1995, Marie Curie became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panth\u00e9on in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world&#8217;s first studies into the treatment of neoplasms were conducted using radioactive isotopes. During World War I, she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, and they both remain major centres of medical research today. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Trio_Francis_Crick_James_Watson_and_Maurice_Wilkins\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Trio Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In the 1950s, there was a fierce competition between many scientific teams to discover the form and structure of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/dna-extraction-virtual-lab\/\">DNA<\/a><\/span>. Watson and Crick formed one of those teams and were joined by Wilkins. It was worth mentioning that Wilkins was part of the Manhattan project that produced the first nuclear bomb. Wilkins felt guilty, as he was one of the makers of death. Therefore, he decided to atone for his sin by participating in the making of life, and so he took part in a project of discovering the form and structure of the DNA. Francis Crick and James Watson began their studies on the DNA in 1953, and Wilkins then introduced X-ray reflections by which he photographed genetic material to Watson. Watsons quickly showed Crick these images. Thus, Crick was able to reach the form of the DNA that is currently adopted: a helical duplex. Watson also discovered the chemical composition of DNA. Francis Crick, James Watson and Morris Wilkins won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-190 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tesla_circa_1890-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Nikola Tesla\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tesla_circa_1890-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tesla_circa_1890-768x1029.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tesla_circa_1890-764x1024.jpeg 764w, https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nikola_Tesla\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Nikola Tesla<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in Croatia in 1856 A.C., and Nikola Tesla was the detector of the electric current.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tesla began his studies at the Polytechnic School. He the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n joined the University of Prague in the Czech Republic and specialized in electrical engineering where he began his career as an electrical engineer in the telephone company in Budapest. Then, he started to work in Edison company and moved to New York where he joined the great American scientist Thomas Edison. At the end, he founded his own laboratory in the same city.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton\" href=\"https:\/\/praxilabs.com\/en\/sign-up\"><span class='mb-text'>Get Started Praxilabs for Free<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, we are going to mention some of the greatest scientists in history who had beneficial impact on human life and had provided various innovations and discoveries that lead to all the giant leaps in our history. Throughout different ages, science and scientists have always played an active role in history. 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