Important Scientific Discoveries 1800 - 2015 By DEREK DEREK Jul 20, 1800 Allessandro Volta Invention of the baterry Jul 20, 1805 John Dalton - Atomic Theory in Chemistry Jul 20, 1848 Lord Kelvin - Absolute zero Jul 20, 1861 Louis Pasteur - Germ Theory Jul 20, 1905 Albert Einstein - Theory of relativity Jul 20, 1911 Ernest Rutherford - Atom Nucleus Jul 20, 1913 Neils Bohr - Model of the Atom Jul 20, 1924 Edwin Hubble - Milky Way is one galaxy Jul 20, 1929 Edwin Hubble - Edwins law of the expanding universe Jul 20, 1973 James Clerk Maxwell - Theory of Electromagnetism Jul 20, 2012 Photonic Molecules Discovered at MIT