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400 BCE
Democritus
Came up with the idea of the atom and Many consider Democritus to be the "father of modern science". -
John Dalton
John Dalton is a chemist, physicist, and meteorologist. He is most well known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, -
J.J. Thomson
JJ Thomson is a physicist and was credited with the discovery of the electron and with the discovery of the first subatomic particle. -
Eugene Goldstein
Eugene was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is also credited with the discovery of the proton. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev was a chemist and an inventor. He came up with the Periodic Law and used the periodic table to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford was a physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Some considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday. -
Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger was a physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, -
Max Planck
Max Planck was a theoretical physicist who discovered energy quanta. Planck is considered by some the originator of quantum theory. -
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr was a physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory -
Robert Millikan
Robert Millikan was a physicist who is responsible for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge -
Werner Heisenberg
One of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics and was awarded the Nobel Prize of Physics in 1932 for it. -
James Chadwick
James Chadwick was a physicist who discovered the neutron and influenced the atomic bomb
