PHYSICIST AND THEIR DICOVERY Flashcards

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Edwin Hubble

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Expanding Universe

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Archemedes

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Principle of Buoyancy, Principle of Lever

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Max Planck

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Quantum Theory

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W.D Wright

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Aeroplane

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H.C Oersted

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Electromagnetism

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James Chadwick

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Neutron

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Albert Einstein

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Theory of Relativity and Law of Photoelectricity

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H. Yukawa

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Theory of Nuclear Forces

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Abdus Salam

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Unification of Weak and Electromagnetic Forces

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R.A Millikan

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Measurements of Electronic Charges

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Ernest Rutherford

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Nuclear model of atom

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Neil Bohr

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Quantum Model of hydrogen atom

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Michael Faraday

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Dynamo and Law of electromagnetic induction

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Issac Newton

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Laws of Motion and Law of Gravitation

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Kepler

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Law of Planetary Motion

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Torricelli

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Barometer

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James Watt

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condensing Steam Engine

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Graham Bell

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Telephone

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W.K. Roentgen

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X Rays

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C.V. Raman

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Inelastic Scattering of light by molecules

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S.N. Bose

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Quantum Statistics

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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

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Electromagnetic Waves

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Homi Jehangir Bhabha

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Cascade process of cosmic Radiation

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J.C. Bose

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Ultra Short Radio Waves

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M.N. Saha

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Thermal Ionization

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S. Chandrashekar

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Chandrashekar Limit, structure and evolution of star

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G.N Ramachandran

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Triple helical Structure of proteins

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Madam Sklodowska Curie

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Discovery of Radium and Polonium, Study of natural Radioactivity

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C.H. Townes

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Maser, Laser

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Victor Francis Hess

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Cosmic Radiation

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Louis Victor de Borglie

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Wave nature of matter

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Wolfgang Pauli

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Exclusion Principle

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Enrico Fermi

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Controlled Nuclear Fission

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Werner Heisenberg

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Quantum Mechanics, Uncertainty Principle

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John Bardeen

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Theory of Super Conductivity, Transistors

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Lev Davidovich Landau

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Theory of Condensed matter, Liquid Helium

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Ernest Orlando Lawrence

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Cyclotron

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Paul Dirac

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Quantum Statistics, Relativistic Theory of electron

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Becquerel

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Natural Radioactivity

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Hahn and Meitner

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Discovered the phenomenon of neutron induced fission of uranium