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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Physics project
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Jan 1, 1514
Copernicus's theory
Nicoaus Copernicus was Form a village called Torun in the kingdom of Poland. He is known for his contribution of Copernicus theory which recognized that the earth tilted and rotated on its axis. His father was a merchant, and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. -
Kepler's planitary motion laws
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who discoverd the planitary motion law's which states that the planets rotate around the sun. Kepler also tought math for some time at a seminary school in Austria. -
Galilei Galileo
Galileo was an Italian engineer, philosopher, and astronomer. Galilei was known for figuring out how to measure the speed of light, Copenica Theory, and his work in Heliocentrism. Galilei is mentioned throughout the opera part of the Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody -
Willebrorb Snell
Willebrorb Snell was a Dutch Astronomer who attended The University of Leiden is known for Snell's Law which is a formula used to when determining angles in refraction. Willebrorh Snell -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke was an architecht, and philosopher from the United Kingdom who is known for hookes law, which is the idea that force is needed for a spring to compress. Hooke attended Oxford and was known for coining the word Cell. -
Issac Newton
Issac Newton was an English philosopher, and physicist born in Wolsthorp England. Newton attended the University of Cambridge, and then late developed Newtons law's of Univesal gravitation, and the principle that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object at rest tends to stay at rest. -
Benjamin Franklin
Ben Frank was a Founding Father of America. Franklin was a printer and an author and ran a news papper in his home town of Boston Massachusets. Ben was most known for his theories in electricity, and his invention of bifocals. -
Amedeo Avogadro
Avogoadro is a scientist from Turin Italy. Avogadro is most known for his contribution of Avogadros law which refers to gas. Avogadros work was not accepted by the scientific community until 1858. -
Andre -Marie Ampere
Andre-Marie Ampere was a physicist who was born in Lyon, France.Ampere is known for founding Amperes law which led to the discovery of the electromagnet. Ampere was alive during the time of the French revolution in which his father was sent to the guillotine. -
George Ohm
George Ohm was a German physicist, and school teacher. Ohm was born in Erlangen Germany where his father taught him math, physics, chemistry, and philosophy. Ohm's most famous work is Ohms law which states that current through a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference. -
James Pescott Joule
James Joule was an English physicist who was born in Salford. Joule was most known for his contribution of the law of thermodynamics which states energy cannot be created or destroyed. Jame's father was a wealthy brewery owner in which he let James manage. -
Christian Doppler
Christian Doppler was a physicist born in Salzburg, Austria. Doppler was known for his development of the Doppler effect which is the change of frequency in waves, such as a siren passing by. Doppler quit working for his father a stonemason because the work was too hard for him. -
Lord Kelvin
Lord kelvin was a born in Belfast Ireland and then late attended Peterhouse Cambridge. Kelvin is known for the Kelvin- erquation, wave, and water dropper. -
Heinrich Hertz
Hertz was a German physicist who proved that electromagnetic waves actually existed.Hertz studied at the Gelehrtenschule des johanneums located in Hamburg Germanyd and then larer recieved his PhD from University of Herlin. Hertz died at 36 years old. -
James Watts
James Watts was born in Greenock, Scottland. He is an Inventor, and engineer who is known for making improvements to the steam engine by making it a continous rotating motion. -
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was an inventor, and engineer from Smiljan in the Austrian Empire. Tesla evaded the Army draft in Smiljan by migrating to America when he arrived he only had 4 cents to his name. Tesla worked for Edison until he saved up enough to start his own light company. Tesla invented the induction motor. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German physicist who developed the general theory of relativity.Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his multiple pieces of work.
