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List of physicist and their contributions?

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  1. Default Well known physicists & their contributions

        1.Archimedes(Greece) - Principle of buoyancy; principle of lever
        2.Galileo Galilei ( Italy) - Law of inertia
        3.Christian Huygens ( Holland) - Wave theory of light
        4.Issac Newton(UK) - Universal law of gravitation; law of motion; Reflecting telescope
        6.Michael Faraday (UK) - Law of electromagnetic induction
        7.James Clerk Maxwell(UK) - Electro magnetic theory;Light-an electromagnetic wave
        8.Heinrich Rudolf Hertz(Germany) - Generation of electromagnetic waves
        9.J.C.Bose (India) - Ultra short radio waves
        10.W.K.Roentgen(Germany) - X-rays
        11.J.J.Thomson(U.K) - Electron
        12.Marie Sklodowska Curie (Poland) - Discovery of radium & Polonium; studies on natural radio activity
        13.Albert Einstein (Germany) - Explanation of photoelectric effect; Theory of relatvity
        14.Victor Francis Hess(Austria) - Cosmic Radiation
        15.R.A.Millikan(USA) Measurement of electornic charge
        16.Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand) - Nuclear model of atom
        17.Niels Bohr(Denmark) - Quantum model of hydrogen atom
        18.C.V.Raman(India) - Inelastic scaterring of light by molecules
        19.Louis Victor de Borglie (France) - Wave nature of matter
        20.M.N.Saha (India) - Thermal Ionisation
        21.S.N.Bose (India) - Quantum statistics
        22.Enrico Fermi (ITaly) - Controlled nuclear fission
        23.Werner Heinsberg(Germany) - Quantum mechanics; Uncertainity prinicple
        24.Paul Dirac (UK) - Relativistic theory of electron; Quantum statistics
        25.Edwin Hubble (USA) - Expanding universe
        26.Ernest Orlando Lawerence (USA) - Cyclotron
        27.James Chadwick(UK) - Neutron
        28.Hideki Yukawa(Japan) - Theory of nuclear forces
        29.Homi Jehangir Bhabha (India) - Cascade process of cosmic radiation
        30.Lev Davidovich Landau (Russia) - Theory of condensed matter; Liquid helium
        31.S.Chandrasekhar(India)-Chandrasekhar limit,structure & evolution of stars
        32.John Bardeen (USA) - Transistors, Theory of super conductivity
        33.C.H.Towens (USA) - Maser ; Laser
        34.Abdus Salam (Pakistan) - Unification of weak & electro magnetic interactions


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