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- Albert Einstein E=mc2 the theory of relativity and many other physics related discoveries.
- Sir Isaac Newton "Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica" called "Principia" is acknowledged as the greatest scientific book ever published. Sir Isaac Newton wrote this in 1687.
- Galileo Galilei He was the first to use the telescope for furnishing evidence that the earth revolves around the Sun.
- Charles Darwin "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"
- Johannes Kepler Kepler compiled the Mars data which enabled him to propose the "Three Laws of Planetary Motion".
- Louis Pasteur Some of his works are:separation of mirror image molecules and effect of polarized light, identification of the parasite that was killing silkworms
- James Maxwell He is known for the "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" published in 1873. Maxwell independently developed the "Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases".
- Edwin Hubble Hubble's Law" stated that galaxies move away from each other at a speed determined by the distance that separated them. He classified galaxies as per their distance, shape, brightness patterns and content.
- Paul Dirac He received a Nobel prize in 1933 for the work on anti-particles. The "Dirac equation" was a version of the Schrodinger's equation.
- Archimedes His major achievements are "The Archimedes principle in hydrostatics", the Archimedes screw and the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and the circumscribing cylinder.
- Marie Curie She won the 1903 Nobel price in Physics and the 1911 Nobel prize in Chemistry.
- Thomas Alva Edison He set up the first industrial research laboratory in the world and was a world record holder of 1093 patents.
- Christiaan Huygens the Wave Theory of Light
- Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss) Mathematical Genius
- Albrecht von Haller Eighteenth-Century Medicine
- August Kekule Chemical Structure
- Robert Koch Bacteriology
- Murray Gell-Mann the Eightfold Way
- Emil Fischer Organic Chemistry
- Dmitri Mendeleev the Periodic Table of Elements
- Willard Libby Radioactive Dating
- Ernst Haeckel the Biogenetic Principle
- Jonas Salk polio Vaccination
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