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Jan 1, 1504
Copernicus
Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model of the universe where the sun is at the center of the universe. The publication of his book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium was a major event in the history of science. It began the Copernican Revolution and contributed to the scientific revolution. -
Galileo
Italy Improved the telescope and noticed moons around Jupiter would be in different places at different nights which helped support Copernicus' theory. Claimed that a pendulum's swing's take the same time. Found that the path of a projectile is a parabola. -
Kepler
Germany. Kepler's three laws Had severly defective vision. -
Snell
Dutch Republic Snell's law His father was a math professor. -
Hooke
England Discovered law of elasticity. He was a natural philosopher, architect, and polymath. -
Newton
England He invented the theory of gravity. He believed God mediated the gravitational force. -
Franklin
Massachusetts Franklin invented the lightning rod and the single fluid theory (a given body possessing a normal amount of electric fluid was called neutral.) Was almost killed with his early experiments with lightning. -
Watt
England He developed the concept of horsepower and the SI unit of power, the watt. -
Avogadro
Italy Avogadro contributed to the molecular theory of Avogadro's Law. Avogadro's constant was named after him. -
Ampere
France Ampere was one of the first founders of the science of classical electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, ampere, is named after him. -
Doppler
Italy Doppler discovered the Doppler effect which observed frequency of light and sound waves are affected by relative motion of source and detector. One of his students was Gregor Mendel. -
Joule
England DiscoveredLaw of conservation of energy. Worked with lord kelvin to develope the absolute scale of temperature. -
Kelvin
Ireland Discoveredthe exsitence of abslute zero in temperature. HIs mother died when he was 6. -
Ohm
Germany Responsible for Ohm's law, ohm's phase law, and Ohm's acoustic law. His father was a locksmith. -
Hertz
Gerrmany He was the first who conclusively proved the exsistence of electromagnetic waves He died of an infection at age 36. -
Tesla
Austria- Hungary Invented AC system and electricity supply system He built first wireless controlled boat. -
Einstein
Germany Einstein discovered the equation E=mc^2, the theory of relativity, quantum theory. Won the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics.