Famous Scientists

  • John Dalton
    Jan 1, 1000

    John Dalton

    Discovered that atoms cannot be created, divided into small particles, or destroyed.
  • Aristotle
    Jan 1, 1000

    Aristotle

    Didn't think there was an atom
    400 B.C.
  • Omar Khayyam
    Jan 1, 1131

    Omar Khayyam

    Created geometric algebra
    1048-1131
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    The first to define the self through a continuity of consciencness.
  • Antonie Lavoisier

    Antonie Lavoisier

    Determined that water results from the combination of the elements oxygen and hydrogen.
    1743-1794
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes

    Invented the cathode ray tube that is used in televisions
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    Introduced glucose, Proust's Law, and disproved the law of definite proportions.
  • Democritus

    Democritus

    Democritis discovered the differeing properties of matter are due to size, sahpe, and movement in atoms.
    1766-1844
  • Amadeo Avagadro

    Amadeo Avagadro

    Contributed to the molecular theory and created Avagadro's Law.
    1776-1856
  • Justus von Liebig

    Justus von Liebig

    Discovered nitrogen as an essential nutrient to plants and created the beef boullon cube.
    1803-1873
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    Discovered polonium and radium.
  • Henry Bessemer

    Henry Bessemer

    Created the Bessemer Process for the manufacturing of steel.
    1813-1898
  • Max Plank

    Max Plank

    Quantizied energy.
  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner

    First to distinguish the four main blood groups.
  • Prafulla Chandra

    Prafulla Chandra

    Created India's first pharamcy and won the Nobel Prize in pharmaceuticals.
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    Discovered radioactivity.
  • Ivan Povlov

    Ivan Povlov

    Won the Nobel Prize for physiology.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Determined the charge of the atom.
  • Alfred Binet

    Alfred Binet

    Created the first usuable intelligence test also known as IQ.
    1857-1911
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    Justification from physical laws of teh previous emprical chemical concept of the atom.
    1887-1915
  • Max Born

    Max Born

    Created quantum mechanics.
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    Hidden thermodynamics, matter and wave, particle duality, non-nulity, and variability of mass.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Created the quantum mechanical model of the atom.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    Awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for the creation of quantum physics.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Showed that the nucleas also contained a nuetron.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Postulated the nuclear structure of the atom.
    1871-1937
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    Discovered the electron.
    1856-1940
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Developed the general theory of relativity effecting a revolution in physics.
    1879-1955
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Developed the concept of complementarity.
    1933-1962
  • Salim Ali

    Salim Ali

    Developed ornithology and was rewarded the second highest civillian honor.