PHYSICS PERSONALITIES AND DISCOVERIES

Names	Major Contribution/Discoveries	Country of Origin
Isaac Newton	Universal Law of gravitation; Laws of Motion;Reflecting Telescope	U.K
Galileo Galilei	Lawof Inertia	Italy
Archimedes	Pricniple of Buoyancy; Principle of the lever	Greece
James Clerk Maxwell	Electromagnetic theory;Light and electromagnetic wave	U.K.
W.K. Roentgen	X-rays	Germany
Marie Sklodowska Curie	X-rays	Poland
Albert Einstein	Law of Photoelectricity;Theory of relativity	Germany
S.N. Bose	Quantum Statistics	India
James Chadwick	Neutron	U.K.
Niels Bohr	Quantum Model of Hyderogen atom	Denmark
Earnest Rutherford	Nuclear model of atom	Denmark
C. V Raman	Inelastic scattering of light by molecules	India
Christian Huygens	Wave theory of light	Holland
Michael Faraday	Laws of electromagnetic Induction	U.K
Edwin Hubble	Expanding Universe	U.S.A
Homi Jehangir Bhabha	Cascade process in cosmic radiation	India
Abdus Salam	Unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions	Pakistan
R.A. Millikan	Measurment of electronic charge	USA
Earnest Olando Lawrence	Cyclotron	U.S.A
Wolfgang Pauli	Quantum Exclusion Principles	Austria
Louis victor de Broglie	Wave Nature of matter	France
J.J. Thomson	Electron	UK
S. Chandrasekhar	Chandrasekhar limit, structure and evolution of starts	India
Lev Davidovich Landau	Theory of condensed matter;Liquid Helium	Russia
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz	Electromagnetic waves	Germany
J.C. Bose	Ultra short radio waves	India
Hideki Yukawa	Theory of Nuclear forces	Japan
Werner Heisenberg	Quantum Mechanics; Uncertainty Principles	Germany
Victor Francis Hess	Cosmic Radiation	Austria
M.N. Saha	Thermal Ionization	India
G.N. Ramachandran	Triple Helical Structure of Proteins	India