1A1a Explain that scientists differ greatly in what phenomena they study and how they go about their work.

Scientist - a person who uses observation, experimentation and theory to learn about a subject

Biologists, physicists, chemists, geologists and astronomers are all Scientists.

Isaac Newton1642-1727 Mathematician & PhysicistEngland

Rosalind Franklin1920 - 1958Molecular BiologistDNA ResearchEngland

Watson & CrickJames Watson & Francis Crick Co-Discovered DNA/Geneticists 1953England

Rachel CarsonScientist & Ecologist1907 1964United States of America

Leonardo Da Vinci1452 1519Anatomy & AstronomyItaly

His illustrations, diagrams and observations are still considered as some of the greatest in the history of anatomy.

Benjamin Carson1951 - PresentPediatric NeurosurgeonUnited States of America

George Washington Carver1864 1943Agricultural Scientist/InventorUnited States of America

Daniel Hale Williams1856 1931Physician First Successful Open Heart SurgeryUnited States of America

Percy Lavon Julian1899 1975Chemist/MedicineUnited States of America

Marie CurieChemist Discovered Radium & Polonium1867-1934France

JaneGoodall1934 PresentPrimatologist & EnvironmentalistUnited States of America/Africa

Maydianne AndradeEvolutionary BiologistJamaica & Canada

is an Associate Professor at

University of Toronto at Scarborough in CanadaMaydianne Andrade

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Benjamin Carson1951 - PresentPediatric NeurosurgeonUnited States of America

Carson's father, a part-time preacher and factory worker, walked out when Ben was 8, leaving his mother, Sonya, to support Ben and his older brother, Curtis. We lived in the inner city, single parent home, dire poverty, my mother only had a third grade education. I was perhaps the worst student you've ever seen. I thought I was really stupid. All my classmates and teachers agreed, and my nickname was "Dummy."I did get into fights, I would injure people. I tried to hit my mother in the head witha hammer. I would just become irrational because I would get so angry. It all culminated one day when --

Another youngster angered me, and I had a large camping knife and I tried to stab him in the abdomen, and fortunately he had on a large metal belt buckle under his clothing and the knife blade struck with such force that it broke and he fled in terror. But, I was more terrified as I recognized that I was trying to kill somebody over nothing.

Fortunately I continued to hold onto that dream and, you know, when I was in the fifth grade, my mother put us on this reading program and said we had to read two books a piece from the Detroit Public Library and submit to her written book reports, which she couldn't read, but we didn't know that, and she'd put a little check mark on them and act like she was reading them.

As one of the world's leading pediatric neurosurgeons, Carson has developed and performed several surgical procedures for children suffering from brain tumors and chronic seizures. ''Reading was the transforming thing for me, '' he recalls. ''I read about inventors and engineers and men like Booker T. Washington and Abraham Lincoln who took themselves from nowhere, through reading, to become great men.' I hated it for the first several weeks, but then all of a sudden, I started to enjoy it because we had no money, but between the covers of those books, I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything. And, I began to learn how to use my imagination more because it doesn't really require a lot of imagination to watch television, but it does to read.