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Famous Physics People

By maurys
  • Copernicus
    Feb 8, 1532

    Copernicus

    formulated the heliocentric model of the universe
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    improvements to the telescope, defended Heliocentricism
  • Kepler

    Kepler

    Laws of planetary motion
  • Snell

    Snell

    Snell's Law; angle of incidence & reflection
  • Hooke

    Hooke

    Hooke's Law which deals with force needed to extend or compress springs
  • Newton

    Newton

    Laws of Motion
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    studied electricity and lightning
  • Watt

    Watt

    Horse power and the SI unit of power and watts
  • Avogadro

    Avogadro

    contributions to molecular theory; Avogadro's Law
  • Ampere

    Ampere

    • one of the main founders of classic electromagnetism
  • Ohm

    Ohm

    Ohm's Law; circuits
  • Joule

    Joule

    Law conservation of energy
  • Doppler

    Doppler

    came up with the doppler effect
  • Kelvin

    Kelvin

    First & Second laws of Thermodynamics
  • Tesia

    Tesia

    electricity supply system
  • Einstein

    Einstein

    Developed the general theory of relativity; E=MC²
  • Hertz

    Hertz

    performed an inelastic electron collisions in gases