Science in the 19th century
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The 19th century saw the birth of science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833. Among the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin, who in 1859 published the book The Origin of Species, which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection. Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine against rabies. Thomas Alva Edison gave the world a practical everyday lightbulb.
Important 19th century scientists included:
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- Louis Braille, inventor of braille
- Marie Curie, physicist, chemist
- Pierre Curie, physicist
- Thomas Edison, inventor
- Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis
- Ernst Haeckel, biologist
- Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist, explorer
- Louis Pasteur, microbiologist and chemist
- Nikola Tesla, inventor
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