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Year Discoveries Scientist Name 1905 Photon Albert Einstein 1897 Electron J.J. Thomson 1919 Proton Ernest Rutherford 1808 Atom John Dalton 1932 Neutron James Chadwick 1687 Law of Motion Isaac Newton 1779 Coulomb Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1827 Ohm’s Law Georg Simon Ohm 1831 Electromagnetic Induction Michael Faraday 1880 Thermionic Emission Thomas Edison 1896 Radioactivity Henri Becquerel…

Enrico Fermi was an Italian-American physicist who created the world’s first nuclear reactor. He is widely known as the “architect of the nuclear age” and the “architect of the atomic bomb.” He won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment. He also made significant contributions in the field…

As discussed before, Rutherford described an atom as consisting of a positive centre mass surrounded by orbiting electrons. Neils Bohr suspected that electrons revolved in quantized orbits. Having suspected this, Bohr worked on Rutherford’s model and proved that particles couldn’t occupy just any energy level.

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German physicist, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as the X-rays. This discovery earned him a Nobel Prize in Physics.

During his work on electromagnetism, Heinrich reported another important phenomenon known as the Photoelectric effect. He noticed that UV rays made the metal lose charges faster than otherwise, which led him to publish his findings in the journal Annalen der Physik. He did not investigate this effect further on. Later, in 1905, Albert Einstein proposed that…

Max Planck, a German Physicist, is best known for his proposition of the quantum theory of energy for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. His work contributed significantly to the atomic and subatomic processes.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie was a chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She is most famous for the discovery of elements Polonium and Radium.

Henri Becquerel was a French physicist best known for his work on radioactivity for which he won a Nobel Prize. As a result, the SI unit of radioactivity Becquerel is named after him.