Science

Famous Scientists/Philosophers (Timeline Project)

  • Democritus
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    Democritus

    He believed that elements were made up of little particles called "Atomas", or indestructible particles. Image from-www.arktimes.com
  • Jabir ibn Hayyan
    Aug 22, 770

    Jabir ibn Hayyan

    He was the first practical alchemist and was known as the "father of chemistry. He developed an early experimental method for chemistry and isolated numerous acids including hydrochloric acid. Image from-www.ilmoamal.org
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    He published The Sceptical Chymist, a treatise on the distinction between chemistry and alchemy. It contained some of the earliest modern ideas of atoms, molecules, and chemical reaction, and marked the beginning of the history of modern chemistry. Image from-www.crystalinks.com
  • Henry Cavendish

    Henry Cavendish

    He discovered hydrogen as a colouless, odourless, gas that was combustibleand can explode with a mixture of air. Image from-www.nndb.com
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    He proposed the law of definite proportions, which states that elements always combine in small, whole number ratios to form compounds. Image from-en.wikipedia.org
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    He said that Democritus's belief of Atomas was right. Image from-en.wikipedia.org
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro

    He said that different atoms combine in fixed proportions and later came up with molecules. Image from-onsager.bd.psu.edu
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    He formulated the periodic law, created his own version of the periodic table and used ti to correct properties of known elements and predict undiscovered elements. Image from-www.nndb.com
  • Johann Josef Loschmidt

    Johann Josef Loschmidt

    He determined the exact number of molecules in a mole, which was later named Avogadro's number. Image from-www.ecured.cu
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    He contrubuted justification from physical laws and chemical concept of the atomic number. Image from-ja.wikipedia.org
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    He discovered that some metals like uranium emitted radiation. Image from-en.wikipedia.org
  • Marie and Pierre Curie

    Marie and Pierre Curie

    They discovered radium which was radioactive. Image from-www.forbes.com
  • Joseph John Thomson

    Joseph John Thomson

    He made the Thompson Model which depicted the atom as a cookie dough dotted with chocolate chips. Image from-en.wikipedia.org
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    He came up with E=mc2 which meant that energy equaled mass multiplied by the speed of light multiplied by itself. Image from-www.biography.com
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    He concluded that the atom is mostly empty space and came up with the Rutherford model. Image from-www.nobelprize.org
  • Niels Bohr and James Chadwick

    Niels Bohr and James Chadwick

    Niels Bohr, a physicist, and his student James Chadwick conclude that the nucleus contains positive protons and neutral neutrons, Image from-en.wikipedia.org
  • Irving Langmuir

    Irving Langmuir

    He suggested that the periodic table could be explained if the elcetrons in an atom were connected or clustered in some manner. Image from-en.wikipedia.org
  • Dr. Milo Wolff

    Dr. Milo Wolff

    He found the wave structure of matter specifically electrons. Image from-mwolff.tripod.com
  • Electron Cloud of Probability (Wolfgang Pauli)

    Electron Cloud of Probability (Wolfgang Pauli)

    Wolfgang's Pauli exclusion principle along with quantum mechanics helped create the Electron Cloud of Probability. Image from-en.wikipedia.org
  • Aristotle

    Aristotle

    He contributed to the scientific method & metaphysics. Image from-mrsvesseymathematicians.wikispaces.com
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