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Wrote extensively on many subjects, inclding politics, ethics, nature, physics, and astronomy.
One of the most inflential philosophers. -
Matter is composed of empyt space through which atoms move
Atoms solid, invsible, indestructble and homogenoues -
Johannes Gutenberg invented the priting press.
Made it easier for more copies of things to be printed like books, newspapers, Bilbles, etc. -
Invented the spinning jenny.
Multi-spindle spinning frame. -
Invented the first self-propelled road vehicle, he was a French engineer and mechanic.
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Disovered the role oxygen plays in combustion.
Predicted the existence of silicon.
Estbalished that sulfur was an element rather than a compound.
Considered to be father of modern chemistry -
Law of constant composition.
Stated that in chemical reactions matter is neither created nor destroyed. -
Cathodes rays were actually a stream of chagred particles.
The particles carried a negative charge.
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Matter composed of extremely small particles called atoms
Atoms cannot be created, divided into smaller particles, or destroyed
In chemcial reaction atoms are separated, combined, or rearranged -
Inveneted the locomotive.
Made transportation faster and easier for people traveling long distances. -
Principle stating that equal volumes o gases at the same temperature and pressure contian the smae number of molecules regardless o ftheir chemical nature and phsyical properties.
Avogadro's Law states the relationship between the masses of the same volume of different gases. -
Invented the first sewing machine that was functionable.
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Invented a way of communication by a series of on-off tones, light flashes, or clicks. Each dot and dash are arranged in different ways to make up different letters and numbers.
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Showed that cathod rays were composed of a previously unknown negativley charged particle
Finding evidence for isotopes of a stable element
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Madame Curie and husband announced the existence of the element radium.
Isolated pure radium metal. -
Invented the first long lasting airplane, which made traveling even faster than traveling by locamotive.
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Invented the air-conditioner, helped cool down houses faster and get rid of humidity.
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Prdouced Theory of Atomic Disintergration
Carried out Geiger-Marsden experiment which showed the nuclear nature of atoms be deflecting alpha particles passing through thin gold foil
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Determined that the laws o fphysics are the same for all non-accelerating observers.
The speed of light in vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers.
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Measured the cahrge on an electron.
Able to show that the cahrge on a drop was always an integral multiple of a small. -
Attained a radioactive source of radium inventing the first atomic battery.
Observed and measured x-ray spectra of various chemcial elements. -
Adapted Rutherford's nuclear structure to Max Planck's quantum theory and created his Bohr model of the atom.
Introdcued the idea that an electron oculd drop from a higher energy orbit to a lower one.
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Orginated quantum theory.
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Suggested that the wave nature of electrons.
Suggested that all matter has wave properties. -
Publsihed his work with a breakthrough paper, matrix, formulation of quantum mechanics.
Also made imporatnat contributions to the thoeries of the hydronamics of turbulent flows, atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, comsic rays, and subatomic particles. -
Discovered penecillian.
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First iron lung built by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw Jr.
Air pumps change the pressure insdie a rectangular, airtight metal box, pulling air in and out of the lungs -
Discovered the neutron.
Wrote the final draft of the MAUD report. -
Proposed the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment.
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Explained that penetrating radiation came from uranium itself.
