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He was born Abdera, Greece.
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He was known as "The Laughing Philosopher," because he was cheerful at work.
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Democritus adopted the atomic theory. He thought that matter was made of hard, small, and indivisible particles, called atoms. He also believed all atoms were typically identical, however also thought that a substance's properties were derived from an atom's characteristics. However, his idea was not widely believed.
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Paris, France.
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Lavoisier named the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
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Lavoisier discovered the Law of Conservation of Matter, which states that atoms can't be created or destroyed by a chemical reaction.
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Eaglesfield, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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Paris, France
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John Dalton was colorblind
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Dalton's atomic theory stated that all matter is made of tiny indivisible particles called atoms. He also said the atoms of one element are the same, but are different from other element's atoms. Dalton created the Law of Multiple Proportions too, which states that all chemical reactions involve the reorganizing of atoms in simpler whole number ratios.
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Manchester, United Kingdom
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Cheetham Hill, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Thomson discovered the electron by observing cathode rays.
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Kiel, Duchy of Holstein
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Planck had a Ph.D. in Physics at the young age of 21
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Planck theorized that energy did not go in a steady continuum, but that it was instead administered in quanta (Discrete packets).
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.
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Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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Marie Curie determined that the capacity to radiate was not dependent on the arrangement of atoms in a molecule, and that it must be connected to the interior of the atom.
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Morrison, Illinois, U.S.
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Millikan was honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Millikan was able calculate the value of the negative charge of an electron by organizing an experiment.
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Brightwater, New Zealand
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Rutherford attended Cambridge University in England.
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Rutherford created an atomic model that presented a small positively charged nucleus that contained positively charged protons and most of the atom's mass, and a large volume around the nucleus where electrons move. He stated that the number of protons was also identical to the number of electrons. Rutherford also later suggested the existence of a neutral particle being in the nucleus in order to make up for the mass deficiency in the atoms he studied.
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Ulm, Kingdom of Wurttemberg, German Empire
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Einstein's most famous contribution was the Theory of Relativity because it put down the foundation for the release of atomic energy. He was also able to analyze Brownian motion and give good verification that atoms and molecules did indeed exist.
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Einstein rewrote the law of gravitaion
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Bohr founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen, which was later renamed the Niels Bohr Institute.
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Bohr presented a "planetary" model for the hydrogen atom that demonstrated that electrons move around the nucleus with a constant energy in fixed orbits. It also showed that even though electrons only can exist in discrete energy levels, that excited electrons can move to a higher orbit by absorbing energy, or fall back to their original orbit by releasing energy as radiation.
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Vienna, Austria
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Schrodinger grew up bilingual because his grandmother was British.
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Schrodinger was able to describe the likelihood of being able to find an electron in a specific position by using mathematical equations.
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Bollington, United Kingdom
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Dieppe, France
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De Broglie's first degree was in history but he earned subsequent degrees in mathematics and physics.
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De Broglie helped create the Wave Mechanics Theory. This theory stated that electrons are able to act as both particles and waves. It also showed that when electrons in the orbit around the nucleus produce waves, they set up a wave of a specific energy, frequency, and wavelength.
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Wurzburg, Germany
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Heisenberg was responsible for the creation of quantum mechanics, which led to the finding of allotropic forms of hydrogen. He is also famous for creating the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which stated that it is not possible to accurately find the position and momentum of an electron simultaneously.
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Thomson became the Master of Trinity College in 1918 and held the position until his death.
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Chadwick discovered that the nucleus of an atom contains electrically neutral particles with a mass similar to the mass of a proton, called neutrons.
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Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
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Chadwick was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Gottingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Heisenberg lectured at Cambridge
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San Marino, California, U.S.
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Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
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Vienna, Austria
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Munich, Germany
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Louveciennes, France
