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J.J Thomson
Joseph John "J.J." Thomson, was a British scientist, discoverer of the electron, of isotopes and inventor of the mass spectrometer. In 1906 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. -
Robert Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his work to determine the value of electron charge and the photoelectric effect. He also investigated cosmic rays. -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, also known as Lord Rutherford, was a British physicist born in New Zealand. He dedicated himself to the study of radioactive particles and managed to classify them into alpha, beta and gamma. -
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who contributed to the understanding of the atom and quantum mechanics. Bohr was the first to apply quantum theory to the problem of atomic and molecular structure -
Henry Moseley
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist and chemist. His main contribution to science was the quantitative justification of the concept of atomic number by Moseley's Law. -
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist, naturalized Irish, who made important contributions in the fields of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. He discovered the fundamental equation -
James Chadwick
James Chadwick was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics. He is primarily known for the discovery of the neutron.
