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- 3. He played a key role in the development of calculus, and through his extensive study of light, made the first practical reflecting telescope, a technology which till date is used to study the heavens.
- 4. His special and general theories of relativity have captured the minds of the scientific community for decades, and are thought to be so complex that very few people are able to actually grasp their full extent.
- 5. He invented the electromagnetic rotary devices, which laid the foundation for the development of the electric motors, which today are the main workhorses of most industries.
- 8. He invented the telephone.
- 9. He started with his education in politics, but ended up shifting to medicine.
- 10. He is best known for formulating the method for finding the exact volume of an irregularly shaped object.
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- 1. The most prominent one is the electric bulb, which is still used today to light up our nights.
- 2. He began actively searching for antibacterial agents, until he discovered the drug penicillin, which revolutionized modern medicine science, by becoming the world's first antibiotic.
- 6. He is known as the father of modern observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, and also the father of modern science
- 7. He collaborated with Roger Penrose, and proposed the gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity.