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Democritrus
An ancient greek philospher who lived from 460 BC to 37 BC. His theory was that all matters consists of invisible particles called atoms. -
John Dalton
English chemist, meteorologist and physicst. Best known for developing the ancient concept of atoms into a scientific theory. -
Benjamin Thompson
Thompson was credited with the discovery of the first electron. -
Max Planck
Planck was a German theoretical physicist who orginated quantum theory, which won the nobel prize in Physics in 1918. He was born in Kiel Germany and died on October 4, 1947. Planck wrote a book called "Where is Science Going". He was married to a wife named Marie Merck and later on married Marga von Hoesslin. Planck went to the Ludwig Maximillian Univeresity of Munich and Humboldt University of Berlin. -
Rutherford
British physicist who became known as father of nuclear physics, being the first person to split and atom. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein developed the general theory of relativity. He was married to his wife named Elsa with three children. Einstein went to the University of Zurich. He won the nobel prize in Phyisics. He was born in Ulm, Gemany in 1879. Albert was not only a physicist but was also a philosopher. -
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Bohr found that electrons can only have a certain amount of energy. -
Pauli Wolfgang
Wolfgang was an Australian-born Swiss theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Zurich, Switzerland on December 15, 1958. Wolfgang studied at Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich. He wrote a book called Atom and archetype. -
George Zweig
George Zweig is an American physicist who was born in Moscow, Russia. He went to University of Michigan. Zweig also was awarded for MacArthur Fellowship. Later in his life he got intersted neurobiology. George worked as a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was raised in a Jewish family, his father was a structural engineer. Zweig proposed the existence of Quarks.
