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Famous Physicists

This document summarizes important physicists throughout history including Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Vera Rubin, and Isaac Newton. It highlights their major discoveries and contributions to physics, such as Archimedes discovering laws of levers and pulleys and the concept of center of gravity, Galileo discovering Jupiter's moons and proving the sun is at the center of the solar system, Kepler discovering elliptical planetary motion, and Einstein establishing the iconic equation E=mc2 relating energy and matter.

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Famous Physicists

This document summarizes important physicists throughout history including Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Vera Rubin, and Isaac Newton. It highlights their major discoveries and contributions to physics, such as Archimedes discovering laws of levers and pulleys and the concept of center of gravity, Galileo discovering Jupiter's moons and proving the sun is at the center of the solar system, Kepler discovering elliptical planetary motion, and Einstein establishing the iconic equation E=mc2 relating energy and matter.

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Famous

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Who is not a physicist?

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Archimedes
● The greatest scientist of ancient
times.
● He created the physical sciences of
mechanics and hydrostatics.
● He discovered the laws of levers
and pulleys, and discovered one of
the most important concepts in
physics – the center of gravity.

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Galileo Galilei

● Galileo was one of the first people to


study the sky with a telescope.
● He was the first person to discover
moons orbiting another planet,
discovering Jupiter’s four largest moons.
● The first practical that the sun is at the
center of the solar system.
● He discovered the Law of the Pendulum.
He stated the principle of inertia.

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Johannes Kepler

● Johannes discovered that the heavenly


bodies follow elliptical paths.
● Kepler’s laws of planetary motion were
an absolutely crucial breakthrough in
our understanding of the universe.

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Michael Faraday

● He established the idea of the


electromagnetic field and discovered
electromagnetic induction and the laws
of electrolysis.

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Albert Einstein
●  He completely changed the way we
understand the behavior of things as
basic as light, gravity, space and time.
● He established the speed of light to be
300 million meters per second in a
vacuum.
● He discovered the iconic equation, E =
mc2, which shows that energy and matter
can be converted into one another. 

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Stephen Hawking

●  Hawking worked primarily in the field


of general relativity and particularly on
the physics of black holes. 
● He also worked with space-time
singularities.

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Vera Rubin

● Vera Rubin was an American astronomer


who pioneered work on galaxy rotation
rates.
● Vera researched and analyzed over 200
galaxies.
● Rubin obtained the strongest evidence
up to that time for the existence of dark
matter in the 70’s.

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Isaac Newton
● Isaac Newton invented calculus
● Newton discovered the law of universal
gravitation, proving that the moon orbits
the earth for precisely the same reason
that an apple falls from a tree.
● He proved that sunlight is made up of all
of the colors of the rainbow.

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