Famous Victorian scientist

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Famous Victorian scientist

• Charles Darwin

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Where he was born and what job he wanted

• Charles Darwin was born on the 12th of February
  1809 in Shrewsbury, England and died on the 12th
  of April 1882. In 1831 he joined a scientific
  expedition bound for South America and the
  Pacific Ocean on a sailing ship called the Beagle
  (1831-1836).He was to be the ships naturalist
  ,the expert on plants and animals.

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His family

• His father Robert Darwin was a wealthy Shropshire
  physician and Charles and his brother Erasmus
  were expected to follow suit .Charles Darwin and
  his wife Emma had 10 children 6 boys and 4
  girls called William, Anne, Mary, Henrietta,
  George, Elizabeth, Francis, Leonard, Horace and
  Charles. Robert Darwin

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Why was he Famous

• He was famous because he proposed a theory of
  evolution that made sense ,namely natural
  selection.

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Why did Charles Darwin wanted to be a scientist

• He wants to be a scientist because he was
  obsessed with the natural world, collecting
  samples and recording facts his hobby as a youth
  was collecting beetles. He also enjoyed
  corrosponding with other scientists about the
  natural world. In a sense, becoming a scientist
  was simply a way of being paid to do what he
  would have actually done for nothing.

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Charles Darwins book

• Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species,
  published on 24 November 1859, is a seminal work
  of scientific literature, considered to be the
  foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full
  title was On the Origin of Species by Means of
  Natural Selection, or the Preservation of
  Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the
  sixth edition of 1872, the short title was
  changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin's book
  introduced the theory that populations evolve
  over the course of generations through a process
  of natural selection. It presented a body of
  evidence that the diversity of life arose by
  common descent through a branching pattern of
  evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had
  gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s
  and his subsequent findings from research,
  correspondence, and experimentation.

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Facts about Charles Darwin

• Charles Darwin was born on the same day as
  Abraham Lincoln.
• Charles Darwin beat Charles Dickens to become the
  face of the new 10 note in 2000. Apparently his
  beard makes it hard to reproduce his portrait
  hair by hair.
• Darwin inadvertently ate a new bird species for
  Christmas dinner on the Beagle in 1833.

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By Matthew C