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Benjamin Franklin
On this date he proved that static electricity andf lightning were the same thing -
Alessandro Volta
Invented the first electric battery, the term volt is named in his honor -
Michael Faraday
Discovered the principle of electro-magnetic rotation that would later be the key to developing the electric motor -
Georg Ohm
He defined the relationship between power, voltage, current and resistance in Ohms Law -
Joseph Henry
Invented the electrical relay, which could send electrical currents long distances -
Wilhelm Roentgen Discovers X-rays
A breakthrough in nuclear energy -
J.J. Thomson
Discovered the electron. In 1906, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery -
Ernest Rutherford found Gamma rays
He discovered two kinds of rays emitting from radium. He called the first rays, alpha rays; and the more penetrating rays, beta rays -
Wilhelm Hallwachs
He discovered that a combination of copper and cuprous oxide was sensitive to light -
Nuclear Bomb
President Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein on the possibility of a uranium weapon
