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Nicolaus Copernicus
Prussia/ Poland
known for his theory of Heliocentrism that said that the sun was the center of the solar system -
found a formal relating size of each panets orbital period.
Germany -
Galileo Galilei
Italy
known for his major role in the scientific revolution as well as his contribution to kinematics, observational astronomy, and his support for heliocentrism -
Gregory Snell formulated law of refraction, degree of bending light depends on material.
Netherlands -
Robert Hooke
England
known for discovering the law of elasticity, now known as Hooke's law as well as sis studies of microscopic fossils that led him to be one of the first proponents of a theory of evolution -
Issac Newton discovered gravity and formulated the laws of universal gravitation
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Benjamin Franklin
Boston, Massachusetts
known for his various inventions and contributions to society such as bifocal glasses, the lightening rod, glass armonica, and most importantly electricity -
Developed the concept of horse power, steam engine.
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Amedeo Avogadro
Italy
Italian scientist known for his theory that equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules. -
André-Marie Ampère
France
French physicist who is known for having the SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, named after him. -
Gregory Ohm formulated Ohms's law. He was a famous preceder of his own fathers work.
Germany -
Studied nature of heat and discovered its relation to mech-work 1st law of thermodynamics
England -
Christian Doppler
Austria
known for the Doppler Effect named after Doppler which is is the change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for an observer moving relative to its source. -
created the term "kinetic energy" joule-thompson effect. Discovered Kelvin.
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Heinrich Hertz
Germany
known for his research that proved the existence of electromagnetic waves -
Created the Tesla coil, electric conduction, helped discover the magnetic field.
Austria -
Albert Einstein
Ulm/ German Empire
known for his theory of general relativity which is the geometric theory of gravitation and how it is currently described in modern physics
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