- THALES - Father of Science ; Elements of Nature
- DEMOCRITUS - Atomic Theory
- THOMAS EDISON - Electric Bulb
- ALEXANDER FLEMING -Penicillin
- FREDERICK BANTING - Insulin
- ISAAC NEWTON - Law of Gravity ; Inertia ; Motion
- ALBERT EINSTEIN - Theory of Relativity ; Photoelectric effect
- MARIE CURIE - Radioactivity
- WILHELM ROENTGEN - X-ray
- ERNEST RUTHERFORD - Nucleus
- EVANGELISTA TORICELLI - Barometer
- FERDINAND VERBIEST - 1st automobile
- CHARLES BABBAGE - 1st computer
- EMILE BERLINER - Gramophone
- ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL - Telephone
- RUDOLF DIESEL - Diesel engine
- EDWIN LAND - 1st polaroid camera
- KONRAD ZUSE - 1st program controlled computer
- SAMUEL MORSE - single wire telegraph
- GUGLIELMO MARCONI - Long distance radio transmission
- JOHN BAIRD - TV system
- WRIGHT BROTHERS - (Orville and Wilbur) 1st aircraft
- CHANDERASEKHAR RAMAN - Raman effect
- GALILEO GALILEI - Law of Gravity
- JOHANNES KEPLER - 3 Laws of Planetary Motion
- HIPPARCHUS - 365 length of the year
- ARCHIMEDES - Hydrostatics ; Bouyancy ; Floating bodies
- PTOLEMY - Book of Optics
- COPERNICUS - Earth rotates on its axis
- RENE DECARTES - Meditationes
- MICHAEL FARADAY - Cathode rays
- HENRY CAVENDISH - Hydrogen
- LEUCIPPUS - opposer of the Divine universal
- LOUIS PASTEUR - separation of mirror image molecules
- JAMES MAXWELL - Kinetic Energy of Gases
- EDWIN HUBBLE - Hubble's Law
- PAUL DIRAC - Schrodinger's equation
- MAX PLANCK - quantum mechanics
- NIKOLA TESLA - Rotating magnetic field
- ARISTOTLE - Metaphysics
- LEONARDO DA VINCI - designed bridges etc.
- NEILS BOHR - Bohr Theory of the Atom
- JOSEPH THOMSON - spectrograph
- WILLIAM RAMSAY - Helium
- JULIUS ROBERT MAYER - Thermodynamics
- HENRY BESSEMER - economical steel making
- ROBERT BUNSEN - spectroscope ; Cesium and Rubidium
- THOMAS GRAHAM - dialysis
- JOHANN WOLFGANG DOBEREINER - relation of elements and atomic weight
- AMEDEO AVOGADRO - same number of molecules in a constant temperature and pressure
- WILLIAM HENRY - Henry's Law
- ALESSANDRO VOLTA - battery using 2 types of metals
- ANTOINE LAVOISIER - Oxygen
- CHARLES AUGUSTIN DE COULOMB - Law of Force
- THOMAS NEWCOMEN - steam engine
- ROBERT BOYLE - Boyle's Law
- BLAISE PASCAL - SI unit of pressure
- 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
