Joseph Priestley--discovered oxygen, carbon monoide, and nitrogen dioxide
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Antoine Lavoisier--law of conservation of mass;father of modern chemistry
Alessandro Volta--electrochemical cell and batteries
John Dalton--made "Daltons Atomic Theory" with 4 points proving the atom as a fundamental chemical object
Michael Faraday--electricity and electrochemistry
CIVIL WAR
Louis Pasteur--pasteurization process
Alfred Nobel--dynamite
FIRST TRANSCONTINETAL RAILROAD IN U.S.
Eugen Goldstein--discovered protons and anode rays
Guglielmo Marconi--radio
Henri Becquerel--radioactivity
J.J. Thomson--suggested plum pudding model
Marie Curie--radioactivity
Max Planck--discovered quantum
Alfred Nobel--Nobel Prize
Albert Einstein--proved the existence of atoms
Robert Millikan--measured the charge of the electron
Ernest Rutherford--proposed Rutherford's Planetary model of the atom
Henry Moseley-- published the results of his measurements of the wavelengths of the X-ray spectral lines of a number of elements which showed that the ordering of the wavelengths of the X-ray emissions of the elements coincided with the ordering of the el
ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FERDINAND
Neils Bohr--proposed Bohr model of the atom
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
Louis deBroglie---introduced the wave/particle duality of matter
Sir Frederick Banting--isolated insulin
Werner Heisenberg--eludicated the uncertainty principle
ERwin Schrodinger--developed the equation, which is used today to understand atoms and molecules
Philo Farnsworth--TV
James Chadwick--propved the existence of neutrons
Wallace Carothers--neoprene and nylon
BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR
Leo Szilard--nuclear chain reactions and atomic bomb