Name Background Date Accomplishment
Si Ling-Chi (Empress of China) 2640 B.C. Develops process to cultivate silkworms for silk
Susrata (Indian surgeon) 500 B.C. Performs operation to remove eye cataracts
Ibn al Haytham Arab physicist 1010 Discovers that vision is caused by the reflection of light from objects into eye
George Washington Carver (African-American agricultural scientist) Early 1900s Develops several hundred industrial uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans
Marie Curie (French physicist born in Poland) 1903 Awarded Nobel Prize for investigations into radiation
Alexander Fleming (Scottish bacteriologist 1928) Discovers penicillin-the first antibiotic able to be manufactured
Rosalind Franklin (English geneticist) 1951 Photographs DNA and describes its shape
All of the people listed in the chart helped to invent some form of technology. Which individual invented a technology that helped to clothe people?
Rosalind Franklin
Alexander Fleming
Ibn al Haytham
Si Ling-ChI
