Alexander Graham Bell
What was his life span?
Bell is best known for his invention of what?
What is the "harmonic telegraph?"
What was the first telephone company founded and 
          what was it called?
How many patents did he receive in his name?

http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96mar/bell.html

Marie Curie
What was her life span?
How did she become famous?
She was the first woman to do what?
What is a Nobel Prize?
What 2 elements did she discover?
What happened in 1911?

http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95nov/curie.html

Thomas Edison
What was his life span?
How many patents did he receive?
What was his greatest contribution to science?
He invented the first successful what?
What did he create to help distribute his inventions?

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/edison.html

Albert Einstein
What was his life span?
What was his contribution to Science?
What profession did he go into after graduating in 1900?
How old was Einstein when he created the Special Theory
           of Relativity?
What is the Quantum Theory of Light?
What is the most famous relationship in physics?  And what 
             does it mean?
 

http://sci.hkbu.edu.hk/math/einstein.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/genius/index.html

Ben Franklin
What was his life span?
He became famous for being 7 different things. 
             What are they?
What were 6 of his inventions?
Why did he propose the idea of Daylight Savings Time?
What did he do in 1736?
He created the first political cartoon.  What was the title 
            of the cartoon and what was it about?

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/
http://library.advanced.org/22254/inventions.htm

Galileo Galilei
What was his life span?
What was he the first to use?
What does heliocentric mean?
What is the heliocentric theory?
In 1633 what happened to Galilei and what was his sentence?

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/galileo.html

Gregor Mendel
What was his life span?
What theory did he contribute to Science?
He was the first person to do what?
How many years did it take to prove the laws of inheritance?
What are the 3 laws of heredity?

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Gregor_Mendel.html

Sir Isaac Newton
What was his life span?
What were his accomplishments in? (3 things)
What 2 things did he define?
Where is he buried?
Why is that significant?

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/newton.html
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/tour/newton.htm
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/tour/

Alfred Nobel
What was his life span?
What did he invent?
He wanted the profit from his invention to reward what?
What is most honored in the world?
When was it first awarded?
When did he receive his patent?

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/alfnobel.html

Louis Pasteur
What was his life span?
What important thing in medical history did he discover? 
What did his work become the foundation for?
He discovered that weakened forms of a microbe.....(complete 
              the sentence)
What is pasteurization?

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/pasteur.html