The goal of your presentation is to provide information about one scientist’s life, work, and contributions to science. Choose a
scientist to research and present about from this list: John Dalton
J. J. Thomson
Marie Curie
Ernest Rutherford
Henry Moseley
Niels Bohr
Werner Heisenberg
Erwin Schrödinger
James Chadwick
Your presentation should answer questions such as these:
What was the scientist’s early life like?
What was the scientist’s personality like?
Did any world events affect the scientist? If yes, what were those events?
Did the scientist have to overcome any obstacles to become a scientist? If yes, what were those obstacles?
In what way did the scientist investigate the atom? Did the scientist use an observational study, a controlled experiment, or a mathematical model? What new understanding did the scientist achieve that resulted in an update to the atomic model?
Which scientist will you write about? Explain why you made that choice.
