| 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 |
