Welcome to the Science Department!
The Science Department comprises 12 Teachers, 2 Technicians and 9 classrooms situated within two buildings at Sawtry Community College. The Science block is home to 6 dedicated Science laboratories and the Prep Lab, A further two Science Laboratories and computing suite are located on the ground floor of the Art block. The Science classrooms are named after some important figures in Science:
James Chadwick - Nobel prizewinner who discovered the Neutron |
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Marie Curie - radioactivity pioneer and double Nobel prizewinner |
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Leonardo Da Vinci - Renaissance polymath and inventor |
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Rosalind Franklin - provided X-ray data vital to the discovery of the structure of DNA |
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Dorothy Hodgkin - Nobel prizewinner and X-ray crystallography pioneer |
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Carl Linnaeus - "father of taxonomy" who created binomial nomenclature |
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Dmitri Mendeleev - created the Periodic Table of the Elements |
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Louis Pasteur - "father of microbiology" who led understanding into the cause and prevention of disease |
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Ernest Rutherford - Nobel prizewinner who discovered the atomic nucleus |
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