physics - physicists Flashcards
Democritus
suggested the atom
Aristotle
was famous for the first laws of motion
Nicolaus Copernicus
picturing the universe with the sun at the centre
Archimedes
laws of floating and sinking
Robert Hooke
he was famous for inventing Hooke’s laws for springs
Galileo
he did the first experiments, invented the telescope and the laws of falling bodies
Sir Isaac Newton
he was famous for inventing/discovering the three new laws of motion and the spectrum
Anders Celsius
he invented the Celsius/centigrade scale
Michael Faraday
he was famous for inventing the dynamo, electromagnets, and having the idea of ‘fields
Willhelm Rontgen
he discovered x rays
Sir J. J. Thomson
he discovered the electron
Thomas Edison
he invented the gramophone and light bulb
Marie Curie
she is known for separating polonium and radium
Albert Einstein
he invented many new theories about light, movement, energy and mass
Andre Ampere
he studied electric current
