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