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Willebrord Snell
Discovered law of refraction (Snell's law) -
Benjamin Franklin
American the first American physicist; characterized two kinds of electric charge, which he named ``positive'' and ``negative'' -
Johann Ritter
Ultraviolet rays -
John Dalton
atomic theory of chemical reactions -
Heinrich Weber
specific heat curves of solids -
Ernest Rutherford
alpha and beta radiation -
Paul Villard
gamma rays -
Hermann Nernst
third law of thermodynamics -
Albert Einstein
general relativity -
Edward Appleton
ionosphere -
Ernest Lawrence
cyclotron -
Alan Turing
computability -
Hendrik Casimir
HTheory of Casimir force -
Charles Townes
maser -
Kenneth Wilson
lattice gauge theory
