History of Physics WCATY Project

By rundmc35
  • Jan 1, 1544

    William Gilbert

    William hypothesized that the Earth is a giant magnet.
  • Jan 1, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Discovered mountains and craters on the moon of Venus, and the four largest satelites of Jupiter, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.
  • Jan 2, 1580

    Willebrod Snell

    Discovered law of refraction.

  • Galileo Galilei

    Overturns a theory that heavier objects fall faster then lighter objects.

  • Robert Hooke

    Discovered Hooke's law of elasticity.

  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Developed theory of gravitation.
  • Period: to

    Multiple scientists

    Nuclear technology is discovered.

  • Isaac Newton

    States the three laws of motion.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Became the first American physicists.

  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange

    Developed new methods of analytical mechanics.

  • Sadi Carnot

    Founded the science of thermodynamics.

  • James Prescott Joule

    Discovered mechanical equivalent of heat.

  • Josef Stefan

    Studied blackbody radiation.

  • Nikola Tesla

    Created alternating currents.

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein discovers the E=mc2 theory about energy equaling mass times the speed of light squared.

  • Sources!!!

    Manley, Mark. "Famous Physicists." Kent. N.p., 25 2012. Web. 1 Jan 2013. http://cnr2.kent.edu/~manley/physicists.html;. Creekmore, Trisha. "The Science Channel." The Science Channel. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Jan 2013. http://science.discovery.com/convergence/100discoveries/big100/physics.html.