Famous Physicists

3. developed helio-centric model of the solar system
5. natural radioactivity
6. first American physicist, characterised positive and negative charge
9. proved cathode rays were strings of negatively charged particles
10. 3 Laws of Planetary Motion
11. 17th century Physicist, created first telescope
13. Developed modern form of periodic table
15. Argon, explained how light scattering is responsible for red colour of sunset and blue colour of sky
16. English, confirmed Einsteins prediction of light bending towards a star
17. double-slit experiment
19. fission of heavy nuclei
20. discovered the neutron
21. created alternating current (AC)
22. relative motion of matter (Aether)
25. Law of Refraction

1. French, studied radioactivity with wife
2. transverse nature of light waves
3. theory of electromagnetism
4. theoretical understanding of collective motion in nuclei
6. electromagnetic induction
7. discovered radio waves and photoeletric effect
8. invented and called a counter after himself, used to detect and measure radioactivity.
12. artificial radioactivity
14. quantum theory, was friend of Einstein
16. theory of special relativity, E=MCsquared
18. discovered that current flow is proportional to potential difference and inversely proportional to resistance
23. measured distances to other galaxies, discovers that they recede at a rate which is proportional to their distance
24. 3 Laws of Motion