Scientists and Inventors - set 1 Flashcards by Noah Taylor | Brainscape

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Discovered X-Rays

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Wilhelm Roentgen

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Father of Wireless Telegraphy (Radio)

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Theory of Relativity

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Albert Einstein

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First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction

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Enrico Fermi

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Discovered radium and polonium

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Pierre and Marie Curie

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Theory of fission energy

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Lisa Meitner

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Invented the cyclotron

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Ernest Lawrence

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Discovered electromagnetic induction

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Micheal Faraday

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Determined the specific gravity of hydrogen

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Henry Cavendish

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Formulated the partial law of gasses

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John Dalton

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Developed the barameter

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Evangelista Torricelli

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Developed the wave theory of light

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Christian Huygens

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Developed the theory of universal gravitation

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Sir Issac Newton

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Discovered the electron

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Sir Joseph Thomson

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Discovered electromagnetic waves

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Heinrich Hertz

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