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400 BCE
Democritus
Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, astronomer, author and physicist who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution. -
John Dalton
John Dalton was a English Chemist, Physicist and meteorologist He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry. -
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a British scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements -
J.J. Thomson
Joseph John Thomson was an English physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery and identification of the electron; and with the discovery of the first subatomic particle. -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. -
Niels Bohr
was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory. -
James Chadwick
James Chadwick was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941.