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Re:Some Ideas - with links on Scientists Biographies for 5th and 6th Graders? · · Score: 1Many of Encyclopedia Britannica's science articles are available for free, so that might be a good place to start:
- Madame Curie
- Grace Hopper
- (There are a few women of Astronomy from around 1900 who should be interesting, but I don't know names) [How about Margaret Burbidge?]
- Richard Feynman
- Charles Darwin
- Gregor Mendel
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Linus Pauling
- Benjamin Franklin
- Paul Erdos
- [Roald] Hoffman (nobel science and literature)
- [Jacob] Perkins, inventor of the first synthetic dyestuff
- Antoine Lavoisier
- William Thompson (Lord Kelvin)
- Thomas Edison
- Michael Faraday (give them a crack at his "The Chemical History of the Candle")
- [Jacques Cousteau]
- John Holland (computer science) [There's also John Philip Holland, a marine engineer.]
- Walther Flemming (discoverer of penicillian)
- Pres. Calvin Coolidge (mining engineer, gave one of the best descriptions of the joy of engineering I've ever seen)