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460 BCE
Democritus
Democritus did his work in Abdera, Greece. He worked on atomic theory. Democritus was known as "The Laughing Philosopher". He was looked at this way because he was often cheerful while at work. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
Aristote worked in Stagira in north Greece. He studied primary substances. Aristotle is regarded by many as the most intelligent man to ever walk on this planet. -
Sep 12, 1466
Alchemists
Alchemist Johann Georg Faust worked in Knittlingen, Germany. He converts water, sun light, and carbon dioxide into chemical energy. People believed they can turn metal into gold. -
Coulomb
Coulomb worked in Angoulême, France. He made pioneering discoveries in electricity and magnetism, and came up with the theory called Coulomb's Law. His health was already very weak, and four years later he died in Paris. -
Lavoisier
Lavoisier worked in Paris, France. He revolutionized chemistry. In 1766 the King of France awarded Antoine Lavoisier a gold medal for an essay based on problems related to urban street lighting. -
John Dalton
John worked in Manchester, United Kingdom. His was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist. His father was a weaver, who owned a house and a small amount of land. Both of his parents were Quakers. -
Crookes
Crookes worked in English chemist and physicist and discovered the element thallium and invented the radiometer. His education was limited, and despite his father's wish that he become an architect, he chose industrial chemistry as a career. -
W.K. Roetgen
W,K. Roentgen worked in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. He was a mechanical engineer who studied phisics at the university of Utrecht. He was the first X-Ray technition. -
Ernest Goldstein
Ernest worked in Gliwice, Poland. He worked on physics. During World War II, Ernest Goldstein served in the Signal Corps as a cryptanalyst deciphering German naval intelligence. -
Bequerel
Bequerel worked in Paris, France. He was a french physicist. In 1908 Becquerel was elected Permanent Secretary of the Academie des Sciences. -
J.J. Thompson
J.J. Thompson worked in Cheetham Hill, England. he studied atomic structure. His father was was a bookseller who planned for Thomson to be an engineer. -
Max Planck
Max worked in Kiel, Germany. This German Physicist made many contributions to theoretical physics. In 1918 Planck was also given the Nobel Prize in Physics. -
The Curies
Marie Curie wa the first person to split the atom. She worked in Paris, France. Her primary focus was radioactivity. She Refused to Cash in on Her Discoveries. -
Robert Millikan
Robert worked in Morrison, Ill. (U.S.A.). He published occasional stories describing important research published in the Physical Review throughout the past century. -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest worked in Cambridge, UK. His primary focus was the study of radioactivity and and nuclear physics. Two of Rutherford's brothers drowned in 1886. -
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner did her work in Berlin, Germany. She was an Austrian physicst who worked on radioactivity snd nuclear physics.. she was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. -
Otto Hahn
Otto worked in the university Marburg in Germany. He discovered he fission of heavy nuclei. Otto Hahn had an element named after him. Element 105 was created and first named Hahnium. Oddly enough, this element disappeared from the period table in 1997. It is now replaced with the name Dubnuim.1 -
Albert Einstein
Einstein worked in Munich, Buvaria. He mainly worked on figuring out the theory of relativity. At age 12 Einstein had taught himself geometry. -
Neils Bohr
Neils worked in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding the structure of atoms and to the early development of quantum mechanics. Niels played soccer and was on the college team. -
Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin worked in Vienna, Austria. Developed a number of fundemeantal results in the field of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger Came Back as a Character on Futurama. -
Chadwick
Chadwick worked in Cheshire, England. At Manchester, he continued to study under Rutherford until he was awarded his MSc in 1913. When World War I started he was a prisoner at the Ruhleben Internment camp near Berlin. -
Glen T Seaborg
Glen did his work in Ishpeming, Michigan. He was involved in identifying nine transuranium elements. His father Herman Seaborg and mother Selma Olivia Erickson spoke Swedish at home. -
Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig
Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig worked in Los Alamos National Laboratory and MIT, and in the financial services industry. They were two physicists independently proposed the existence of the subatomic particles known as quarks. Gell-Mann speaks 13 languages fluently. -
Geiger
Geiger worked in Rhineland, Germany. He was a german physicist. He was a member of the uranium club.
