Famous Personalities and Discoveries

Sir Isaac Newton formulated the Law of Universal Gravitation in his work Principia Mathematica. He described the gravitational force between two masses as proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Francis Bacon is widely credited with the phrase Knowledge is power (scientia potentia est). It appears in his work Meditationes Sacrae.

Louis Pasteur is widely recognized as the father of microbiology for his work on germ theory and pasteurization.

Christian Huygens was the first to correctly identify the nature of Saturn's rings in 1655.

Nicolaus Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model of the universe, which placed the Sun at the center of the solar system. Galileo later provided observational support for this model.

Karl Marx is recognized as the father of scientific socialism for developing the theoretical framework of Marxism through works like The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Lenin was a later revolutionary leader who implemented Marxist theory. Laski was a 20th-century political theorist, and 'Mended' appears to be a garbled option.

Friedrich Froebel established the first kindergarten in Bad Blankenburg, Germany, in 1837.

Pierre de Coubertin is widely recognized as the father of the modern Olympic Games for his role in their revival.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is the philosopher most famously associated with the concept of the General Will in his work The Social Contract.

Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) is called the Father of Aviation for his pioneering work on aerodynamics and flying machines. He designed the first successful glider.

Georges Henri Joseph ةdouard Lemaître (17 July 1894 - 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble.

He was the father of DNA finger printing.