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Science People
| Person | What they did |
|---|---|
| Archimedes(Ancient Greece) | Designed the compound pulley, and lever |
| Amedo Avogadoro (Italian,18th century) | Established the principles of molarity, clarified the relationship between atoms and molecules |
| Robert Boyle(Irish 17th century) | |
| Galileo Galilei (Italian 17th century) | All bodies, fall at the same rate. Relativity laws of physics are constant within a constantly |
| Marie Curie(Polish/French 19th century) | Radioactivity |
| Michel Faraday(English, 18th/19th century) | Electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Introduced the concept of fields to the study of magnetism and electricity. Effect of a strong magnetic field on the behavior of light rays |
| Wilhelm Ostwald(Latvian 19th/20th century) | Properties of atomic particles, and defined a mole |
| Stephan Hawking(English 20th/21st century) | Theretical cosmology and quantum gravity |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer(American 20th century) | Astrophysics, nuclear physics, and quantum field theory. Manhattan Project |
| Linus Pauling(American 20th century) | Quantum mechanics of genetic diseases |
| Enrico Fermi(Italian/American 20th century) | Discovered the process of making elements artificially radioactive y bombarding them with neutrons Manhattan Project |
| Niels Bohr(Danish 20th century) | Bohr established that the number of electrons determined the atom's chemical properties |