science

  • Willebrord Snell

    Willebrord Snell

    Discovered law of refraction (Snell's law)
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    American the first American physicist; characterized two kinds of electric charge, which he named ``positive'' and ``negative''
  • Johann Ritter

    Johann Ritter

    Ultraviolet rays
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    atomic theory of chemical reactions
  • Heinrich Weber

    Heinrich Weber

    specific heat curves of solids
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    alpha and beta radiation
  • Paul Villard

    Paul Villard

    gamma rays
  • Hermann Nernst

    Hermann Nernst

    third law of thermodynamics
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    general relativity
  • Edward Appleton

    Edward Appleton

    ionosphere
  • Ernest Lawrence

    Ernest Lawrence

    cyclotron
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    computability
  • Hendrik Casimir

    Hendrik Casimir

    HTheory of Casimir force
  • Charles Townes

    Charles Townes

    maser
  • Kenneth Wilson

    Kenneth Wilson

    lattice gauge theory