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Isaac Newton
He was born on 25th of December 1642 and died 20th of March 1727.
Isaac Newton was influenced by Euclid when studying mathematics at Cambridge and also by people like Baconian and Cartesian philosophies.
He did many experiments that all led to different discoveries like light, the three laws of motion and said about a mechanical universe with small, solid masses in motion. This led him to discover that forces hold atoms together. -
John Dalton
John Dalton was born in 1766, he started his work on theory at the simple fact that particles combine in the simplest form. This is what made his theory different from those of Greeks such as Democritus and Leucretius. John is famous for his theory on tiny particles and named them Atoms he also discovered that there was a point where matter could not be broken down any further.
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John Dalton
That elements in one atom are identicle but different to those in other atom's and that they combine in the simplest forms such as one to one or two to two ect. -
Michael Faraday
He was born on September 2 1791and hee died on August 25th 1867 He started his theory after Hans Christian Orsted discovered electromagnetism and after William Hyde Wollaston had failed, Faraday then discussed with the two of them and went to build two devices called electromagnetic rotation mixing the two together. In 1830 he realized that the electrical forces in compounds were really important. He did an experiment including the electricity going in between electrodes in water. -
Michael Faraday
He discovered that there were deposits on the end of the electrodes. He also discovered that the current undid the simple compounds of atoms and the material not needed was directly the same amount of current flowing through the solution. His experiments explained that there were electrical currents and forces that hold atoms together. -
Julius Plucker
Julius was born on 16th of July 1801 and died on 22nd of May 1868.
The founder of his school Gaspard Monge, I assume had an influence on him and made him want to continue research.
He discovered that there were electron rays produced in a vacuum. He named them cathode rays.Julius noticed that cathode rays were deflected by magnets.
Julius’ research started other scientists to explore like J.J Thomson who with the cathode rays discovered electrons. -
james clerk maxwell
He was born on 13th of June 1831 and died on November 5th 1879. James started his theory based on Michael Faraday’s so he must have had a great influence on James. The discovery James is known for is the one researching electromagnetic radiation which is the joining of electricity, magnetism and optics.
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists in history used James’ theory to discover his own. -
henri becquerel
He was born on 15th of December 1852 and died on 25th of August 1908. Henri started his research after Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen’s theory about X-rays failed.
He investigated connections between x-rays and the florescent glass walls of the cathode-ray tube. It started a lot of scientists to wonder and experiment in their own discoveries. It made us known to X-rays. -
Joseph John Thomson
He was born on December 18th, 1856 and died August 30th, 1940. Some scientists that influenced him were William Prout and Norman Lockyer who said that atoms were built of a core unit from that Thomson suggested that the core unit was 1000 times smaller than an atom these were subatomic particles now known as electrons.
In 1897 he discovered the electron he did that by testing electric discharge in a high vacuum cathode-ray tube.
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Max Planck
He was born on 23rd of April 1858 and died on October 4th 1947.
The influences to Max were the law of conservation of energy and the second law of thermodynamics.He based his discovery of the quantum theory.Max discovered the Quantam theory in which light has to be emitted and absorbed in tiny amounts to actually be light.Before that we thought of light as an on going electromagnetic wave.He made us known to the fact that light is produced with little bits of what is called quanta. -
Marie Sklodowska Curie
She was born on 7th of November 1867 and died on 4th of July 1934.
Marie married Pierre Curie a very famous scientist and they both put their knowledge together and helped each other with their discoveries. She discovered radium and polonium and studied the x-rays that came from them.
She made us better known to radioactivity and the effects of x-rays. -
Ernest Rutherford
He was born in 1871 and died in 1937.
J.J Thomson influenced Ernest greatly by teaching hima dn then further experimenting on the transmission of radio waves together, Henri Bequeural and Marie Curie opened the field of radioactivity in which Ernest entered. Ernest's theory was called the plum pudding because he knew that things were scattered throughout the atom like plums in a pudding he tested this by shooting rays through thin gold sheet and noticing that some rebounded meaninng they had to -
Ernest Rutherford
off of something and that something was the nucleus. He also got this from thinking about how it would have to have a control centre. He taught us that the rays wouldn't be able to pass through the gold if it didn’t have a nucleus because it would have gone through thin cloud but some rebounded telling us that they had to rebound off of something. He discovered the Proton a positively charged particle in the atom causing other scientists to wonder what else was in atoms. -
Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein
He was born on 14th of March 1879 and died 18 April 1955.
Albert was influenced by the Quantum theory which Max Planck discovered. Einstein discovered that all matter in a lattice structured atom was a single harmonic oscillator. He had to work really hard trying to get the frequency they would all be different but he carried on because he knew that it could solve the quantum physical heat problem in machines. He taught us the General Theory of Relativity and the concept of mass-energy e -
Niels Bohr
Niels was born on 7th of October 1885 and died on 18th November 1963. His father Christian Bohr who was a Physiology Professor influenced him.He created the Bohr model of the atom whish is the nucleus at the centre and the electrons orbiting around it like planets orbiting the sun.He figured out the exact path on which the electrons took as they orbited around the nucleus. He said that they travel in one large orbit all going the same way. -
James Chadwick
James was born on 20th of October 1891 and died on 24th of July 1974.
Ernest Rutherford taught him and looked at his theory. I suppose Ernest Rutherford’s way of thinking intrigued James to further think into the theory.
James discovered the neutron a particle with no electrical charge evident.
This made up the atom. Other scientists tried to find more things in the atom but they could not leaving us to know that there are three main particles to an atom. -
Werner Heisenberg
He was born on 5th of December 1901 and died on 1st of February 1976He was interested in physics but then realized that he didn’t take any interest in experimental physics but in theoretical physics which he continued to do for the rest of his life.
If Werner didn’t explain how we couldn’t measure the mass and velocity of an atom exactly then we would probably still be trying Werner created quantum mechanics and also the fact that it is impossible to know a particle’s position and velocity. -
Frederick Soddy
He was born on 2nd of September 1877 and died on 22nd of September 1956.He was influenced by John Ruskins.He along with Ernest Rutherford explained that radioactivity is because of the transmutation of elements know to know involve nuclear reactions.He discovered isotopes in some radioactive elements.They taught us that radioactive elements decayed into other elements.
