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| AUTHOR: | Anonymous |
| CREATED: | 15-May-2008 |
| TAGS: | timeline physics science |
| CATEGORY: | Science, Astronomer |
PEOPLE
René Descartes Discours de la Méthode
Joseph-Louis Lagrange Mécanique Analytique
Francis Bacon Novum Organum
Henri Poincaré Poincaré Conjecture
Leonhard Euler The Elements of Euclid
John Archibald Wheeler The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission
Paul Dirac The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Pierre-Simon Laplace Traité du Mécanique Céleste
Benjamin Franklin American founding father
Jean-Baptiste Biot Biot-Savart Law
Karl Schwarzschild Black holes, Schwarzschild radius
Albert A. Michelson Calculated the speed of light
Galileo Galilei Copernican observational astronomer
Roger Penrose Cosmologist and theoretical physicist
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Coulomb's Law
Robert A. Millikan Determined the charge of an electron
Robert H. Dicke Dicke radiometer
Michael Faraday Discovered electrical induction
Henry Cavendish Discovered hydrogen
Lord Rayleigh Discovered the element Argon
Louis de Broglie Discovered the wave nature of electrons
John Dalton Early proponent of Atomic Theory
Jean le Rond d'Alembert Early work in partial differential equations
Arthur Eddington Eddington luminosity
James Prescott Joule English physicist, Joule's Law
André-Marie Ampère Explored electromagnetism
Isaac Newton Father of modern physics
Ernest Rutherford Father of Nuclear Physics
Niels Bohr Father of Quantum Theory
Edward Teller Father of the H Bomb
Enrico Fermi First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Werner Heisenberg Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Ejnar Hertzsprung Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Edwin Hubble Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law
Alessandro Volta Invented electric battery
Sir William Rowan Hamilton Inventor of Quaternions
Evangelista Torricelli Inventor of the barometer
Guglielmo Marconi Inventor of the radio
Robert Hofstadter Investigated electron scattering and nuclei
Johannes Kepler Laws of Planetary Motion
Humphry Davy Leading early 19th century chemist
William Herschel Mapped heavens, discovered Uranus
James Clerk Maxwell Maxwell's Equations
Harlow Shapley Organizer of Heaven
Max Planck Originator of quantum theory
Wolfgang Pauli Pauli Exclusion Principle
Robert Oppenheimer Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project
Edmund Halley Predicted return of Halley's Comet
Erwin Schrödinger Schrödinger's wave equation
Richard Feynman Surely he's joking
Albert Einstein Theory of relativity
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Theory of spectrum analysis
Christiaan Huygens Wave theory of light
Murray Gell-Mann Weak interaction of particles
Stephen Hawking Wheelchair-bound physicist
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