Mechanics
List of Famous Physics Scientists
Famous physics Scientists and their contributions
| Name of Physicists | Inventions |
| Isaac Newton | Law of Gravitation, Laws of Motion, Reflecting telescope |
| Galileo Galilei | Law of Inertia |
| Archimedes | Principle of Buoyancy, Principle of Lever |
| S.N.Bose | Quantum Statistics |
| Niels Bohr | Quantum model of Hydrogen atom |
| James Chadwick | Neutron |
| Earnest Rutherford | Nuclear model of Atom |
| Christian Huygens | Wave theory of Light |
| Edvin Hubble | Expanding Universe |
| Abdus Salam | Unification of week and e/m interactions |
| R.A.Milikan | Measurement of Electronic Charge |
| E.O.Lawrence | Cyclotron |
| Wolfgong Pauli | Quantum Exclusion principle |
| Louis de Broglie | Wave nature of matter |
| J.J.Thomson | Electron |
| Hideki Yukawa | Theory of Nuclear Forces |
| James Clerk Maxwell | Theory of Electromagnetism, Kinetic Theory of Gasses |
| Wilhelm E Weber | Developed sensitive magnetometers, worked in electrodynamics and the electrical structure of matter |
| Joseph Henry | Performed extensive fundamental studies of electromagnetic phenomena , devised first practical electric motor |
| Michael Faraday | Discovered Electromagnetic induction and devised first electrical transformer |
| Count Alessandro Volta | Pioneer in study of electricity, invented Battery |
| Andre Marie Ampere | Father of electrodynamics |
| Hans Christian Oersted | Discovered that a current in a wire can produce magnetic effects |
| Georg Ohm | Discovered that current flow is proportional to potential difference and inversely proportional to resistance (Ohms law) |
| Johan Balmer | Developed empirical formula to describe hydrogen spectrum |
| Gustav Kirchhoff | Developed three laws of spectral analysis and three rules of electric circuit analysis, also contributed to optics |
| Heinrich Hertz | Worked on electromagnetic phenomena; also discovered radio waves and the Photoelectric effect |
| Nikola Tesla | Created alternating current |
| Lord Rayleigh | Discovered argon, explained how light scattering is responsible for the red color of sunset and blue color of the sky |
| Antoine Henry Becquerel | Discovered natural radioactivity |
| Sir Joseph John Thomson | Demonstrated the existence of the electron |
| Max Planck | Formulated the quantum theory, explain the wavelength distribution of blackbody radiation |
| Pierre Cuire | Studied Radioactivity with wife, Marie Curie; discovered piezoelectricity |
| Wilhelm Wien | Discovered laws governing the radiation of heat |
| Marie Curie | Discovered radioactivity of thorium; co-discovered radium and polonium |
| Charles Wilson | Invented the cloud chamber |
| Albert Einstein | Explained Brownian motion and photoelectric effect; theory of atomic spectra, Formulated Theories of special and general relativity |
| Otto Hahn | Discovered the fission of heavy nuclei |
| Clinton Joseph Davison | Co discovered electron diffraction |
| Niels Bohr | Contributed to Quantum theory and theory of nuclear reactions and nuclear fission |
| Arthur Compton | Discovered the increase in wavelength of x rays when scattered by an electron |
| Werner Heisenberg | Contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics; introduced the Uncertainty principle and concept of exchange forces |
| Wilhelm Rontgen | Discovered and studied x rays |