Getting troubled with all that messy information on web on scientists.
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Being a person of science I always wonder
Being a person of science I always wonder
Who is the most famous scientist?
What Albert Einstein or Issac Newton is famous for?
So we did a little research at "Resource Blend" to find some famous scientist and their discoveries in science. Here we try to give the brief and the really important information you could not turn away from.
#1 Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough
The list of course have to be started from the one and only Albert Einstein.
Born on 14th March of 1879 in Ulm (Kingdom of Wurttemberg) in German empire, who would have thought he was the one who would have a deep impact in the world of physical sciences.
Einstein always loved Mathematics and Physics from the very beginning.
Einstein taught himself algebra and Euclidean geometry over a single summer and independently discovered on his own original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem at age 12.
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Apart from his personal life let's just dive into some of his best works.
1. Special relativity
In physics, special relativity is the generally accepted and experimentally well-confirmed physical theory regarding the relationship between space and time.
2. General relativity
General relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 in modern physics.
General relativity generalizes special relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation, providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time.
3. Photoelectric effect
The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons or other free carriers when light falls on a material.
This phenomenon is commonly studied in electronic physics, as well as in fields of chemistry.
4. E=mc 2 Mass energy equivalence
In physics, mass energy equivalence states that anything having mass has an equivalent amount of energy and vice versa.
5. Unified field theory
Perhaps Einstein's most famous failure is that he never managed to create a theory that would unite all four fundamental forces (gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interaction and strong interaction).
He spent his later years plugging away at the so - called Grand Unified Theory and died without cracking it.
#2 Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1726)
Tact is knowing the way of making the point without making any enemies
Of all other things Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most dominant English physicists,mathematician and many more.
Born on 4th january of 1643.
From his place of birth Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire (England) he made his way into The Royal Society and was also elected as it's president.
Author of the book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematic which was published in 1687 laid the foundation of classical mechanics.
He also contributed in various fields.
Aged 84 he died on 31st of March 1727.
Among his various givings to the scientific world some are here...
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1.Newton laws of motion
These are the physical laws that, together, laid the foundation for classical mechanics.
They describe the relationship between a body and the forces acting upon it, and its motion in response to those forces.
2.Newtonian mechanics
It is a system of equations to describe motion under the action of forces, dictated by Newton's Laws of Motion, and often Newton's Law of Gravity.
Sometimes it is also referred as to classical mechanics
3.Universal Gravitation
It states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.
4.Calculus
Calculus came from a latin word.
Basically it is study of continuous change, it is like understanding something by looking at small pieces.
5.Optics
The branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.
#3 Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943)
If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world
Born on 10th july of 1856 in Austrian empire which is present day Croatia, this guy was a cool geek.
He could speak 8 languages, recite a whole book completely just with one reading, make a device just by seeing it once.
Rather being genius his financial conditions were not too good he died penniless on 7th January 1943.
Among all others personally i think he was the number one futuristic scientist of all time.
Most of his work was copied by other scientists as he didn't bothered patenting any of his work.
His ideology was to make living for people more easy and wasn't into science stuff for money.
Of all his inventions be it x-ray, RADAR, cryogenic engineering, transistors etc there was nothing he didn't contributed towards.
Tesla had generated ac current before Edison knew about charges.
Whether he was not a famous person at his time his work is appreciated a lot today.
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1.Revolutionary AC motors
An AC motor is an electric motor driven by an alternating current (AC).
2.The Death ray
The death ray or death beam was a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon first theorized around the 1920s and 1930s.
3.Induction motor
An induction motor is an AC electric motor in which the electric current in the rotor needed to produce torque is obtained by electromagnetic induction from the magnetic field.
4.Plasma lamps
Plasma lamps are a type of gas discharge lamp energized by radio frequency (RF) power.
5.Tesla coil
A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit designed by Tesla in 1891.
It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity.
#4.Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Born on 27th December 1822 this french scientist is the reason you got your milk pasteurised.
He was biologist, microbiologist and a chemist.
During 19th century Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and discovered how to make vaccines from weakened, or attenuated, microbes.
He developed the earliest vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax, and rabies.Louis Pasteur developed germ theory, which became central to our understanding of disease.
Pasteur found that liquids such as beer and milk went off because of the rapid multiplication of very small organisms germs in those liquids.
He investigated further and found that many of these microorganisms could be killed by heating the liquid.
He died 28th of September 1895 on with his common discoveries like..
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1.Molecular asymmetry
In his early work he examined the chemical, optical and crystallographic properties of a group of compounds known as tartrates.
2.Germ theory of diseases
Beverage contamination led Pasteur to the idea that microorganisms infecting animals and humans cause disease.
He proposed preventing the entry of microorganisms into the human body, leading to develop antiseptic methods in surgeries etc.
3.Spontaneous generation of microorganisms
Felix Archimede Pouchet stated that air everywhere could cause spontaneous generation of living organisms in liquids spoiling them.
Louis opposed and stated the fact that the spoilage of liquid was caused by particles in the air rather than the air itself.
4.Immunology and vaccination
Pasteur's later work on diseases included work on chicken cholera, In the 1870s, he applied this immunization method to anthrax.
Pasteur produced the first vaccine for rabies.
5.Swine erysipelas
In 1882, Pasteur sent his assistant to southern France because of an epizootic of swine erysipelas.
Pasteur and Thuillier increased the bacillus's virulence after passing it through pigeons and rabbits, weakening it and obtaining a vaccine.
#5 Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei provided a number of scientific insights that laid the foundation for future scientists.
Lived from 15th feb 1564 to 8th January 1642 this 77 aged astronomer, physicists and engineer was the first person to made important discoveries about space.
Renowned by famous titles like the "father of observational astronomy",the "father of modern physics",the "father of the scientific method" and the "father of modern science".
Galilei studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion.
He also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of pendulums and "hydrostatic balances", inventing the thermoscope and various military compasses, and using the telescope for scientific observations of celestial objects.
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1.Telescopes
Galileo, made a telescope with about 3x magnification. He later made improved versions with up to about 30x magnification.
With a Galilean telescope, the observer could see magnified, upright images on the Earth it was what is commonly known as a terrestrial telescope or a spyglass.
2.Scientific methods
Galileo was one of the first modern thinkers to clearly state that the laws of nature are mathematical.
Galileo made original contributions to the science of motion through an innovative combination of experiment and mathematics.
3.Kepler's supernova
Galileo observed and discussed Kepler's supernova in 1604.
Since these new stars displayed no detectable diurnal parallax, Galileo concluded that they were distant stars, and, therefore, disproved the Aristotelian belief in the immutability of the heavens.
4.Sunspots
Galileo made naked-eye and telescopic studies of sunspots.
Their existence raised another difficulty with the unchanging perfection of the heavens as posited in orthodox Aristotelian celestial physics.
5.Stars and milky way
Galileo observed the Milky Way, previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a multitude of stars packed so densely that they appeared from Earth to be clouds.
He located many other stars too distant to be visible with the naked eye.
He observed the double star Mizar in Ursa Major in 1617.
We hope reading about these renowned people, helped to awake the little scientist inside you.
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