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Thales of Miletus lived from 624-547 BC, he was the first Greek
astronomer and mathematician and was
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Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera, their primary contribution was that they stated that all things that surround us is called matter and that we are made up of small particles.
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Aristotle was born in 385 BC and died in 322 AC in between those years he made a lot of contributions to physics such as creating his own school in Athen called The Lyceum in which physics and philosophy where principally teach
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Aristarchus was born around 300 BC and died around 230 BC, he started theorizing about the movement of the earth and questioning how our solar system its really, after all this theorizing he proposed the theory of Heliocentrism.
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Archimedes was born in 287 BC and died in 212 BC, he is known for working mainly on statics and hydrostatics, in addition to astronomy and optics.
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Born in the year 85 and died in165, he was a famous Egyptian astronomer and philosopher of the second-century one of his greatest contributions was the geocentric model that stated that the Earth is the center of the solar system.
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(1473-1543) He proposed the heliocentric planetary system in which he stated that the sun is the center of our solar system and the other planets go around the sun.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) reinforce the theory that the sun is the center of our solar system and the earth and other planets revolve around it, to prove it Galileo design and built his own telescope and discover a lot of other things that without the telescope wouldn't be possible.
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Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) proposed the three laws of planetary motion between 1609 and 1618. In them, he states that the planets of the solar system move in elliptical orbits. Kepler also
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Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) made huge contributions to the physics world such as the 3 laws of newton which explain the movement of objects, he also explained that the attractive force called gravity which causes things to fall to the ground and stay on the Earth.
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Benjamin Thompson (1753 - 1814) proposed that the heating caused by friction was due to the conversion of mechanical energy into thermal energy.
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John Dalton (1766-844) considered that all things were
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Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) make a lot of contributions not just to physics but also to electromagnetism, he discovered that when an electric current flows through a conductor, a magnetic field similar to that of a magnet is generated around it.
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Michael Faraday (179-1867) discovered induced electric currents, which are produced when a conductor moves transversely (perpendicular) to the flux lines of a magnetic field
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James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) established the principle called the mechanical equivalent of heat, which made it possible to establish the law of conservation of energy, which indicates that the energy existing in the universe is a constant quantity, which is neither created nor destroyed, it only transforms
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the first to propose that light is made up of electromagnetic waves, which can propagate in a
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Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) discovered radioactivity when he observed that the atoms of the element uranium gave off smaller particles, with which he considered that the atom was not the smallest particle, but that it was also constituted by other particles. This leading to the opening of a new field called atomic physics which in charge of studying the constitution of the atom.
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(1858-1947) is recognized for his contributions to theoretical physics, he is the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes.
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Einstein (1879-1955) developed a theory of special and general relativity, which helped to complicate and expand upon theories that had been put forth by Isaac Newton, Einstein also discover and explain the Photoelectric effect, a phenomenon in which electrically charged particles are released from or within a material when it absorbs electromagnetic radiation
