Scientist Flashcards
Formulated the thermal equilibrium and the zeroth law of thermodynamics
Ralph Howard Fowler
Performed an experiment where energy is aded to the water as work but extracted from the water as heat
James Prescott Joule
Stated the first law of thermodynamics, commonly known as the law of conservation of energy
Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius
The general statement of the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics is attributed to:
Walther Nernst
Scientists that formulated the law of conservation of mass, law of definite composition, and law of multiple proportions.
LCM: Antoine Lavoisier
LDC: Joseph Louis Proust
LMP: John Dalton
Scientists that discovered the 3 subatomic particles.
Electron: J.J. Thompson (through cathode ray experiment; identified mass/charge ration)
Proton: Ernest Rutherford (through Geiger-Marsden Experiment performed by his students)
Neutron: James Chadwick (student of Rutherford)
J.J. Thompson discovered the negatively charge cathode rays. Who coined the term “electron” to described these cathode rays?
George Stoney
Performed the oil drop experiment that identified that charge of the electrons up to 5 significant figures.
Robert Millikan
Built the first spectroscope that identified the spectra of different elements and discovered both Rubidium and Cesium.
Robert Bunsen
Gustav Kirchoff
Discovered majority of the noble gases:
1. Argon - with Lord Rayleigh through synthesis of nitrogen by distilling air
2. Helium - from clevite (an uranium ore)
3. Neon - with Morris Travers by distilling air
4. Krypton - with Morris Travers by distilling air
5. Xenon - with Morris Travers by distilling air
6. Radon - with Frederick Saddy
William Ramsay
He discovered radioactivity.
Henri Becquerel
She discovered polonium and radium.
Marie Curie
Father of nuclear chemistry and won the Noble Prize in his work on nuclear fission.
Otto Hahn
