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Funder of the Academy, a program that many consider to be the first university
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Developed the concept of atoms. Thought everything was made up of atoms
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Tried to transform base materials such as lead and copper into silver and gold
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Made contributions to all fields of philosophy , invented the field of formal logic
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carried experiments investigating the properties of air and vacuum using glass tubes
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discovered the role oxygen plays in combustion, recognized oxygen in 1778 and combustion in 1783
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When oxygen is combined with either one or two volumes of nitric oxide in closed vessels over water
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He was a physicist who discovered the elementary charge of an electron using the oil drop experiment
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Best known for his discovery of the periodic law
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Discovery of radium and polonium and huge contributions to cancer treatments.
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Announces the discovery of Atoms
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The energy of light is proportional to the frequency
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was made by Albert Einstein and is emission of electrons.
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Postulated the nuclear structure of atoms, discovered alpha and beta rays
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Proposed a theory for the hydrogen atom, based on quantum theory that some physical quantities only take discrete values
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made the general theory of relativity
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He gives the evolution over time of a wave function
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Developed a key piece of quantum theory, the uncertainty principle with profound implications
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He discovery was the neutrons