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