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