Famous Physicists

Who is responsible for the idea that the earth needs nothing below it to support it? (610 BC – 546 BC)

Who uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion? (1928 - 2016)

Who discovered Newton's First Law of Motion? (1564 – 1642)

 Who proved that sunlight is made up of all of the colors of the rainbow? (1643 to 1727)

Who established that light can behave as both a wave and a particle? (1879 – 1955)

Who invented a device which prevents lightning damaging anything within it? (1791 to 1867)

Who achieved the first deliberate transformation of one element into another? (1871 – 1937)

 Who introduced probability theory into the physics of the very small? (1831 – 1879)

Whose laws of planetary motion were a crucial breakthrough in our understanding of the universe? (1571 to 1630)

Who discovered the laws of levers and pulleys, and created the idea of the center of gravity? (287 BC – 212 BC)