Famous scientists who made their Major Contribution or Discoveries are listed below:
Famous scientists and their major Contribution or Discoveries
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Names
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Major Contribution or Discoveries
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Country of Origin
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Isaac Newton
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Universal Law of gravitation; Laws of Motion; Reflecting
Telescope |
U.K
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Galileo Galilee
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Law of Inertia
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Italy
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Archimedes
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Principle of Buoyancy; Principle of the lever
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Greece
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Electromagnetic theory; Light and electromagnetic wave
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U.K.
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W.K. Roentgen
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X-rays
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Germany
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Marie Sklodowska Curie
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X-rays
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Poland
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Albert Einstein
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Law of Photo electricity; Theory of relativity
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Germany
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S.N. Bose
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Quantum Statistics
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India
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James Chadwick
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Neutron
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U.K.
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Niels Bohr
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Quantum Model of Hydrogen atom
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Denmark
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Earnest Rutherford
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Nuclear model of atom
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Denmark
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C. V Raman
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Inelastic scattering of light by molecules
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India
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Christian Huygens
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Wave theory of light
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Holland
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Michael Faraday
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Laws of electromagnetic Induction
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U.K
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Edwin Hubble
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Expanding Universe
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U.S.A
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Homi Jehangir Bhabha
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Cascade process in cosmic radiation
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India
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Abdus Salam
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Unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions
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Pakistan
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R.A. Millikan
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Measurement of electronic charge
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USA
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Earnest Olando Lawrence
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Cyclotron
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U.S.A
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Wolfgang Pauli
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Quantum Exclusion Principles
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Austria
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Louis victor de Broglie
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Wave Nature of matter
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France
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J.J. Thomson
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Electron
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UK
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S. Chandrasekhar
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Chandrasekhar limit, structure and evolution of starts
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India
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Lev Davidovich Landau
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Theory of condensed matter; Liquid Helium
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Russia
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
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Electromagnetic waves
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Germany
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J.C. Bose
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Ultra short radio waves
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India
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Hideki Yukawa
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Theory of Nuclear forces
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Japan
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Werner Heisenberg
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Quantum Mechanics; Uncertainty Principles
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Germany
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Victor Francis Hess
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Cosmic Radiation
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Austria
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M.N. Saha
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Thermal Ionization
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India
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G.N. Ramachandran
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Triple Helical Structure of Proteins
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India
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