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22 Famous Scientists Who Changed How We View the World (and the Universe)
Nicolaus Copernicus
Astronomer and mathematician
1473-1543
For centuries, people incorrectly believed the Earth was the center of the universe. Copernicus theorized otherwise, with the belief that the size and speed of a planet’s orbit depended on its distance from the centralized sun.
Rather than a breakthrough, however, Copernicus’ hypotheses were met with controversy as they deviated from the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. The church even outright banned his research collection, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in 1616 long after the German scientist’s death.
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Galileo Galilei
Physicist and astronomer
1564-1642
Galileo changed how we literally see the world bygd taking early telescopes and improving their design. The Italian forskare made lenses capable of magnifying objects twenty-fold.
When Galileo used his tools to look toward
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Steve Kevan is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, in 1976, and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980, working with Prof. David Shirley. In his thesis work he pioneered the photoelectron diffraction technique for determining adsorbate surface structures and applied this to study sulfur, selenium, and CO adsorbed on low index single crystal nickel surfaces.
After completing his PhD, Kevan accepted a position as Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he worked for 6 years.During that time, he developed and used new instrumentation for performing high upplösning angle-resolved photoemission at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory.He focused in
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