Month: May 2022

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.

Thomas Edison made a lot of key inventions and discoveries. Here, we have listed a few noteworthy ones: Invented the carbon rheostat Discovered incandescent light Invented the motion picture camera Invented the fluorescent electric lamp Discovered Thermionic Emission Edison has been described as “America’s greatest inventor.” He developed many devices in fields like mass communication… Continue reading Thomas Edison

Faraday was a man devoted to discovery through experimentation. He was famous for never giving up on ideas that came from scientific intuition. When he thought of an idea, he would keep experimenting through multiple failures until he got what was expected. Below is the list of his few noteworthy discoveries: Discovery of Electromagnetic Induction Discovery… Continue reading Michael Faraday

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb is best known for what now is known as the Coulomb’s law, which explains the electrostatic attraction and repulsion. He formulated this law to study the law of electrostatic repulsion put forward by the English scientist Joseph Priestley. He also extensively worked on the friction of machinery, the elasticity of metal and… Continue reading Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Isaac Newton’s discoveries created a launchpad for future developments in science. His most noteworthy innovations were as follows: Newton’s three laws of motion set the foundation for modern classical mechanics. The discovery of gravitational force gave us the ability to predict the movement of heavenly bodies. His discovery of the calculus gave us a potent mathematical… Continue reading Isaac Newton

James Chadwick, a British physicist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. Bombarding elements with neutron can result in the penetration and splitting of nuclei generating an enormous amount of energy. This way, Chadwick’s findings were pivotal to the discovery of nuclear fission and ultimately, the development of the… Continue reading James Chadwick

John Dalton’s major contribution was his theory on atoms which consists of five parts as follows: Atoms are made of tiny particles known as atoms Atoms are indivisible and indestructible Atoms of a given element are identical in size, mass, and chemical properties In a chemical reaction, atoms separate, combine and rearrange Dalton made a… Continue reading John Dalton

Ernest Rutherford, a Zealand chemist is regarded as the “father of nuclear physics.” He was the first to propose that an atom comprises a small charged nucleus surrounded by empty space and are circled by tiny electrons which later, became known as the Rutherford model. He is credited with the discovery of protons and hypothesized… Continue reading Ernest Rutherford

J.J Thomson, an English physicist and a Nobel Laureate in Physics, is credited and honoured with the discovery of the electron, which was the first subatomic particles to be discovered. Thomson managed to show that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles (electrons), which he calculated and inferred might have smaller bodies… Continue reading J.J Thomson