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384 BCE
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Tried to stablish general principles that ruled the behavior of natural bodies, also celestial and terrestrial bodies applying concepts like motion, change of place, change of size or number -
278 BCE
Archimedes (278-212 BC)
Considered one of the first mathematicias, he applied first math to physical phenomenas. Is the father of hydrostatica & buoyancy principle. -
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Father of mothern physics:Used classical mechanics, cientific method, movement laws, telescope, fall law. -
Isaac Newton (1831-1979)
He is best known for having invented the calculus in the mid to late 1660s and Also for having formulated the theory of universal gravity, established the 3 montion laws, and contrubted to the development of calculus -
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1870)
Formulated, electromagnetic theory, statitical physics, cinetic gases theory -
Ernest Rutherford (1871- 1937)
Rutherford was the central figure in the study of radioactivity, and with his concept of the nuclear atom he led the exploration of nuclear physics. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908, was president of the Royal Society -
Niels Bohr (1885- 1962)
n 1913, Niels Bohr proposed a theory for the hydrogen atom based on quantum theory that energy is transferred only in certain well defined quantities. Basically Electrons should move around the nucleus but only in prescribed orbits. When jumping from one orbit to another with lower energy, a light quantum is emitted. -
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
He is known for his equation E = MC2, which states that energy and mass (matter) are the same thing, just in different forms. He is also contrivuded by discovering the photoelectric effect, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. -
Heinsenberg (1901-1976)
Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics". Heisenberg also is important by his contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles. Helping many other physicians and contribute to many processes. -
Erwdin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
He made notable contributions in quantum physics, wave mechanics and unified filed theory. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for his work in the field of quantum mechanics and establishing the Schrodinger equation, which provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system.
