Scientists and Contributions

Short Summary list of Scientists who contributed so much in Physical Science Development

1. THALES - Father of Science ; Elements of Nature
2. DEMOCRITUS - Atomic Theory
3. THOMAS EDISON - Electric Bulb
4. ALEXANDER FLEMING -Penicillin
5. FREDERICK BANTING - Insulin
6. ISAAC NEWTON - Law of Gravity ; Inertia ; Motion
7. ALBERT EINSTEIN - Theory of Relativity ; Photoelectric effect
8. MARIE CURIE - Radioactivity
9. WILHELM ROENTGEN - X-ray
10. ERNEST RUTHERFORD - Nucleus
11. EVANGELISTA TORICELLI - Barometer
12. FERDINAND VERBIEST - 1st automobile
13. CHARLES BABBAGE - 1st computer
14. EMILE BERLINER - Gramophone
15. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL - Telephone
16. RUDOLF DIESEL - Diesel engine
17. EDWIN LAND - 1st polaroid camera
18. KONRAD ZUSE - 1st program controlled computer
19. SAMUEL MORSE - single wire telegraph
20. GUGLIELMO MARCONI - Long distance radio transmission
21. JOHN BAIRD - TV system
22. WRIGHT BROTHERS - (Orville and Wilbur) 1st aircraft
23. CHANDERASEKHAR RAMAN - Raman effect
24. GALILEO GALILEI - Law of Gravity
25. JOHANNES KEPLER - 3 Laws of Planetary Motion
26. HIPPARCHUS - 365 length of the year
27. ARCHIMEDES - Hydrostatics ; Bouyancy ; Floating bodies
28. PTOLEMY - Book of Optics
29. COPERNICUS - Earth rotates on its axis
30. RENE DECARTES - Meditationes
31. MICHAEL FARADAY - Cathode rays
32. HENRY CAVENDISH - Hydrogen
33. LEUCIPPUS - opposer of the Divine universal
34. LOUIS PASTEUR - separation of mirror image molecules
35. JAMES MAXWELL - Kinetic Energy of Gases
36. EDWIN HUBBLE - Hubble's Law
37. PAUL DIRAC - Schrodinger's equation
38. MAX PLANCK - quantum mechanics
39. NIKOLA TESLA - Rotating magnetic field
40. ARISTOTLE - Metaphysics
41. LEONARDO DA VINCI - designed bridges etc.
42. NEILS BOHR - Bohr Theory of the Atom
43. JOSEPH THOMSON - spectrograph
44. WILLIAM RAMSAY - Helium
45. JULIUS ROBERT MAYER - Thermodynamics
46. HENRY BESSEMER - economical steel making
47. ROBERT BUNSEN - spectroscope ; Cesium and Rubidium
48. THOMAS GRAHAM - dialysis
49. JOHANN WOLFGANG DOBEREINER - relation of elements and atomic weight
50. AMEDEO AVOGADRO - same number of molecules in a constant temperature and pressure
51. WILLIAM HENRY - Henry's Law
52. ALESSANDRO VOLTA - battery using 2 types of metals
53. ANTOINE LAVOISIER - Oxygen
54. CHARLES AUGUSTIN DE COULOMB - Law of Force
55. THOMAS NEWCOMEN - steam engine
56. ROBERT BOYLE - Boyle's Law
57. BLAISE PASCAL - SI unit of pressure
58. Pythagoras - postulated that the Earth is spherical.

• Ptolemy - wrote the book of Optics
• Hypparchus - 365 days is the length of the year.
• Aristotle
• Archimedes - Floating bodies ; "Eureka"
• Copernicus - 
• Galileo Galilei - Father of Physics ; Father of Science; Father of Modern Science; Astronomy
• Decartes -
• Isaac Newton - Laws of Motion; greatest influential scientists; prolonged gestation period; interested in Theology; dual Nature of Light; First principle of mechanics; gravitation; integral calculus
• Michael Faraday - Electricity ; Telegraphics; electromagnetism and electromagnetism.
• Albert Einstein - theory of relativity and mass energy equivalence, E = mc2; Theory of Gravity
• Thales - Father of Science; Nature of elements ( fire, air, water, earth)
• Democritus - Atomic theory.
• Leusippus - developed the Theory of Atomism; Opposer of the Divine Universal...
• Aristotle - student of Plato; Philosopher; big contribution in Physics
• Aristarchus - silent scientist
• St. Thomas Aquinas -

*based on the Historical Development of Physical Science in MAED of Sacred Heart College