Famous Physics Scientists and their Inventions
Dear science students, given below are some of the famous physicists and their notable contributions and inventions in the field of physics. These world-famous physics scientists and their inventions help to build our world better place to live.
In this table you will get name of famous physicists along with their living years duration, inventions in the field of physics, name of reward they get with year in which they receive reward and birth country of these famous physics scientists.
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| World Famous Physics Scientists and their Inventions |
Name of Scientist | Living Years Duration | Inventions in the Field of Physics | Name of Reward with Year of Reward | Birth Country |
Isaac Newton | 1643-1727 | Laws of motion, gravity, calculus | - | United Kingdom |
Albert Einstein | 1879-1955 | Theory of relativity, photoelectric effect | Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) | Germany (later Switzerland and USA) |
Galileo Galilei | 1564-1642 | Telescopic discoveries, laws of motion | - | Italy |
Niels Bohr | 1885-1962 | Bohr model of the atom, quantum theory | Nobel Prize in Physics (1922) | Denmark |
Max Planck | 1858-1947 | Planck's constant, quantum mechanics | Nobel Prize in Physics (1918) | Germany |
Werner Heisenberg | 1901-1976 | Uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics | Nobel Prize in Physics (1932) | Germany |
James Clerk Maxwell | 1831-1907 | Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves | - | United Kingdom |
1867-1934 | Radioactivity, radium, polonium | Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911) | Poland (naturalized French) | |
Richard Feynman | 1918-1988 | Feynman diagrams, QED, quantum mechanics | Nobel Prize in Physics (1965) | USA |
Erwin Schrödinger | 1887-1961 | Schrödinger equation, wave mechanics | Nobel Prize in Physics (1933) | Austria (later Austria-Hungary) |
Enrico Fermi | 1901-1954 | Fermi-Dirac statistics, nuclear reactor | Nobel Prize in Physics (1938) | Italy |
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| Famous Physics Scientists and their Inventions |
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