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  • 460 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
    1.Greece
    2. Atomic Theory
    3.Was an influential Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher.

  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier
    1. France
    2. Atomic Theory
    3. Was a french nobelman

  • Coulomb

    Coulomb
    1. Angoulême, France
    2. Coulomb's law
    3. Died at 70.

  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    1. Spring Grove, New Zealand
    2. A pioneer of nuclear physics and the first to split the atom, Rutherford was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of atomic structure.
    3. Went to University of Cambridge

  • William Crookes

    William Crookes
    1. UK
    2. vacuum tubes
    3. Got 2 awards.

  • Eugen Goldstein

    Eugen Goldstein
    1.Wroclaw, Poland
    2. Cathode rays
    3. Goldstein created canal rays.

  • W.K Roentgen

    W.K Roentgen
    1. Germany
    2. Discovered X-rays
    3. Got a Nobel Prize

  • J.J Thompson

    J.J Thompson
    1. UK 2.English physicist who helped revolutionize the knowledge of atomic structure by his discovery of the electron .
    2. Was an English Physicist.

  • The Cruies

    The Cruies
    1.Europe
    2. Discovery of Polonium and Radium
    3. Both Marie and Pierre Curie bodies were taken.

  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr
    1. Cambridge, United Kingdom 2.Best known for his substantial contributions to quantum theory
    2. Won a noble prize

  • Einstein

    Einstein
    1.Germany and Switzerland
    2.Theory of Relativity
    3.Einstein was actually a slow learner and had to teach himself how to do a lot of stuff.

  • Robert Milikan

    Robert Milikan
    1. Morrison,IL
    2. Charge of the Electron
    3. Wrote and Co-Wrote in the physics field

  • James Chaswick

    James Chaswick
    1. England 2 Discovery of the Neutron, Manhattan project, and MAUD committe report. 3.He was a prisoner in WW1

  • Lise Meither

    Lise Meither
    1. Austria and Sweden
    2. Became the first to recognize that the uranium atom, when bombarded by neutrons, actually split.
    3. Was on a postage stamp.

  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger
    1. Dublin, Ireland until retirement
    2. Wave mechanics, crucial to understanding the behavior of subatomic particles and light.
    3. In 1934, Schrodinger was invited to teach at Princeton University, but he declined the offer.

  • Otto Hahn

    Otto Hahn
    1. Germany 2.Nuclear Fussion 3.Got a nobel prize in 1944 for Chemistry

  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    1.Schleswig,Germany
    2.Molecular Processes
    3.In 1918 Planck was also given the Nobel Prize in Physics.

  • Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig

    Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig
    1. Moscow, Russia
    2. Classification of subatomic particles.
    3. Born on September 15

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    1. The UK 2.the Atomic Theory
    2. Was a meterologist

  • Glen T. Seaborg

    Glen T. Seaborg
    1. Los Angeles, California
    2. Nuclear Chemistry
    3. During WW II he was in charge of scaling up plutonium production and after the war chaired the Atomic Energy Commission.