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Physics 1200 important people matching

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Isaac Newton   Said light was made of particles.  
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Thomas Young   Showed that light is a wave.  
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R.D. Oldham   Studied earthquakes waves to show the earth had a liquid core.  
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Albert Einstein   Showed light is a particle through the photoelectric effect.  
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Heinrich Hertz   Unit of Frequency named after him  
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James Maxwell   Found variation in the strength of the electric and magnetic fields  
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Christian Doppler   Doppler effect- stretch waves as they move away and squish them as they move towards you  
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Wilhelm Roentgen   First to identify form of radiation : x-rays  
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Henri Becquerel   Discovered alpha particles as radiation  
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Marie Curie   Discovered alpha particles are coming from the nucleus.  
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James Chadwick   Discovered the nucleus contained neutral particles  
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Maria Mayer/ Hans Jensen   Both put forth independent theories of "nuclear shells"  
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Enrico Fermi   Started the 1st sustained fission reaction  
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Lise Meitner/ Irene Curie   Broke down uranium by adding neutron to its nucleus  
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Ida Noddack   Suggested uranium could break up but no one listened  
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Otto Hahn   Expert in spectroscopy and won the Nobel prize for fission  
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Frederic Joliot   Won a Nobel prize for showing elements can be made radioactive  
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