BY Keion Winn ROach

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Feb 15, 1564

Often known mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1927)

Dec 25, 1642

Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.

Stephen Grey (1667-1736)

Apr 30, 1667

Stephen Grey is an award-winning British investigative journalist and author best known for revealing details of the CIA's program of 'extraordinary rendition.' He has also reported extensively from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)

Feb 18, 1745

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

Count Rumford (1753-1814)

Mar 26, 1753

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

John Dalton (1766-1844)

Sep 6, 1766

Democritus first suggested the existence of the atom but it took almost two millennia before the atom was placed on a solid foothold as a fundamental chemical object.

Thomas Young (1773-1829)

Jun 13, 1773

Thomas Young was an English polymath. Young made notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.

Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851)

Aug 14, 1777

Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism.

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Sep 29, 1791

Michael Faraday, was an English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.

James Joule (1818-1889)

Dec 24, 1818

James Prescott Joule FRS was an English physicist and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.

Leon Foucault (1819-1868)

Sep 18, 1819

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth.

J.J Thomson (1856-1940)

Dec 18, 1856

Thomson showed that cathode rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle, and thus is credited with the discovery and identification of the electron.

Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)

Feb 22, 1857

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who clarified and expanded James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light, which was first demonstrated by David Edward Hughes using non-rigorous trial and error procedures.

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)

Aug 30, 1871

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand-born physicist and chemist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He is considered the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Mar 14, 1879

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

Oct 7, 1885

Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

James Chadwick (1891-1974)

Oct 20, 1891

Sir James Chadwick was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. He was the head of the British scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Brownian Motion

Jan 1, 2013

While using using a microscope to study suspension of pollen grains in water. Brownian motion: random moving of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision by the fast-moving atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid.

The Neutron

Mar 31, 2013

The neutron was discovered by James Chadwick.

Aristotle (384-322) BCE

Mar 2, 2022

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle was born in Stagira in north Greece, the son of Nichomachus, the court physician to the Macedonian royal family.