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Jan 1, 1544
William Gilbert
William hypothesized that the Earth is a giant magnet. -
Jan 1, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Discovered mountains and craters on the moon of Venus, and the four largest satelites of Jupiter, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede. -
Jan 2, 1580
Willebrod Snell
Discovered law of refraction. -
Galileo Galilei
Overturns a theory that heavier objects fall faster then lighter objects. -
Robert Hooke
Discovered Hooke's law of elasticity. -
Sir Isaac Newton
Developed theory of gravitation. -
Huygens Wave Theory
Huygens suggested that light was a wave since it could be reflected and refracted. One problem was that light travels in straight lines and produced sharp shadows which meant it did not diffract. -
Sir Isaac Newton
State the 3 laws of motion. -
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Developed new methods of analytical mechanics. -
Sadi Carnot
Founded the science of thermodynamics. -
Atom - Dalton
1803 Dalton (in England) put forward a concept of an atom was generally accepted. -
James Prescott Joule
Discovered mechanical equivalent of heat. -
Brownian Motion
Brownian motion: random moving of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision by the fast-moving atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid. -
The Neutron
The neutron was discovered by James Chadwick -
Nikola Tesla
Created alternating currents. -
Heinrich Hertz
He proved Maxwell’s theory via a series of experiments and also discovered that the newly found waves behaved exactly like light but with ah much shorter wave length at this time. -
J.J Thompson
He discovered something smaller than an atom, a particle with a minuscule mass and a negative charge. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein discovers the E=mc2 theory about energy equaling mass times the speed of light squared. -
Gold Foil Experiment
He found the positive nucleus in the atom that was surrounded by negative electrons, this was done through his well-known gold foil experiment. -
Sources!!!
Manley, Mark. "Famous Physicists." Kent. N.p., 25 2012. Web. 1 Jan 2013. ;. Creekmore, Trisha. "The Science Channel." The Science Channel. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Jan 2013. .
