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Democritus
B.C.
Democritus spent his leisure hours in chemical researches after the philosopher’s stone. Has a supposed madness. -
John Dalton
independent statement of Charles’s law.
he kept daily weather records from 1787 until his death -
Henri Becquerel
Henri Bacquerel was a memeber of a distinguished family of scholars and scientists. He was elected a memeber of the Academie des Sciences de France. -
J.J. Thomson
Thomson's early interest in atomic structure was reflected in his Treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings which won him the Adams Prize in 1884. -
Robert Millikan
Spent a year in Germany. When he returned he became an assistant at the newly established Ryerson Laboratory at the University of Chicago, -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest received his early education in Government schools and at the age of 16 entered Nelson Collegiate School. -
Niels Bohr
Bohrs activities in his Institute were since 1930 more and more directed to research on the constitution of the atomic nuclei, and of their transmutations. -
James Chadwick
He was elected Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and became Assistant Director of Research in the Cavendish Laboratory. Then later he was elected a fellow to the royal society. -
Marie & Pierre Curie
Marie Curie thus became the first woman to be accorded this mark of honour on her own merit.
Pierre 35, eight years older, and an internationally known physicist. -
Quantum model
Quantum model also includes a nucleus containing neutral particles known as a neutrons and positive particles called protons. -
Aristotle
384-322
Aristotle was a figure in ancient greek philosophy. They referred to him as simply "the philosopher." In Aristotles life time he wrote about 200 treatises and only 31 of them survived.
