Differences in Styles of Research

Differences in Styles of Research

There were still stiking differences among leading nations regarding the circumstances and styles of research

• In Britain there was a marked absence of institutions providing jobs for researchers
• In Germany, the Natural Sciences shared in the rise in size and prestige of the University System
• 1856 William Henry Perkin- Synthetic dyestuffs

Progress in PHYSICS

• Hans Christian Oersted- electic current produces a magnetic field
• Michael Faraday- reverse effectJoseph Henry- built the 1st powerful electromagnets and invented the electric motor
• James Prescott Joule- 1st law of thermodynamics
• Wilhelm Roentgen- x-ray
• Marie Curie- gave the name radioactive, she and her husband Pierre Curi went on to discover polonium and radium

Progress in CHEMISTRY

• Friedrich Wohler- prepared urea in a test tube from inorganic starting materials
• Baron Justus Von Liebig- chemical fertilizers
• Dmitri Mendeleev- systematic and periodic arrangement
• Progress in ASTRONOMY
• Sir William Herchel- uranus did notb t precisely mve in its expected orbit
• Urban J.J. Everrier- neptune

Progress in BIOLOGY

• Karl Ernst Von Baer- embryology
• Charles Darwin- Origin of Speies
• Gregor Mendel- Pattern of inheritance of characteristic from one generation of sweet peas to other.

Progress in MEDICINE

• William Morton- anesthetics
• Louis Pasteur- methods of immunizing people
• Joseph Lister- antiseptic surgery

• Walter Reed- yellow fever is caused by a virus carried by a mosquito.