Sam And Shay's Timeline

Democritus

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Ancient Geek philosopher born in Abdera, Greece. Influential pre-socratic philosopher. Formulated atomic theory for the universe

William Crookes

Jun 17, 1832

British Chemist and ohysicist who attened the royal college of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscophy. Pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the crookes tube.

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

Mar 27, 1845

German physicist , who on Nov. * 1895, produced and dectetced elctromangnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-rays.

Antoine Henri Becquerel

Dec 15, 1852

Fench physicist Noble Lauraute, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with MArie Curie and Pierre Curie in which all won the NObel Prize in Phyics (1903)

Joseph John Thomson

Dec 18, 1856

Bristish physicist and Noble laureate. Is credited with dicovering elctrons and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer

Pierre Curie

May 15, 1859

French physicist and pioneer in chrystallography. Magnetisim, piezoeelectricity, and radioactivity.

Marie Curie

Nov 7, 1867

French, Polish Physicist and chemist , famous for her pioneering research on radioactive radiactivity.

Robert Andrews Milikan

Mar 22, 1868

American experimental physicist, and noble Laureate and physicst, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

Ernest Rutherford

Aug 30, 1871

First Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM. New Zealand born British Chemist and physicist known as the father of nuclear physics , considered the greatest experimanlist since Micheal Raday.

Lise Meitner

Nov 7, 1878

Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and Nuclear Physics

Otto Hahn

Mar 8, 1879

German chemist and Noble Laurate Pioneer in fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry , regarded as the father of nuclear Chemistry

Albert Einstein

Mar 14, 1879

German born theroretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting the revolution of physics

Neils Henrik David Bohr

Oct 7, 1885

Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic sttructure, and quantun mechanics, for which he recieved the Nobel Prizein Physics in 1922.

Henry Mosley

Nov 23, 1887

English physicist. contribution to physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical in chemical concept of the atomic number.

James Chadwick

Oct 20, 1891

English Noble Laureate in Physics, awarded for his discovery of the neutron. Studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Chambridge

Irene Joliot Curie

Sep 12, 1897

French scientist daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. The wife of Frederick Curie.

Leo Szilard

Feb 11, 1898

Hungarian-American physicist and inventor who concieved the nuclear chain reaction

Frederic Curie

Mar 19, 1900

French phyiscist and Noble Laurauete

Enrico Fermi

Sep 29, 1901

Italian physicist, particularly known for his work on the development of the first Nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1 and for his contribution of the Quantum theory.

Fritz Strassmann

Feb 22, 1902

German chemist who indetified Barium in the residue after bombarding Uranium with neutrons.

Robert oppenheimer

Apr 22, 1904

American theoretical phyiscist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Otto Robert Frisch

Oct 1, 1904

Austrailian Brish physicist. designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of the atomic bomb in 1940.

Edward Teller

Jan 15, 1908

Hungarian-American Nuclear phyiscist known for colloquially as the father of the hydrogen bomb.

John Dalton

Mar 2, 2022

English Chemist, meterologist, physicist. Known for piooneering work in the development of the modern Atomic theory and his research into color blindness

Aristotle

Mar 2, 2022

Greek philosopher and pollyth, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.