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He formulated the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.
Isaac Newton
He was the first person to observe the moons of Jupiter with a telescope.
Galileo Galilei
He developed the special and general theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein
He discovered the electron.
J.J. Thompson
She won two Nobel Prizes in different sciences: Physics and Chemistry.
Marie Curie
She contributed to the discovery of nuclear fission but did not receive the Nobel Prize awarded to her male colleagues.
Lise Meitner
He is considered the father of quantum mechanics; his equation describes how particles behave at the quantum level.
Erwin Schrödinger
He discovered the neutron.
James Chadwick
He proposed the uncertainty principle.
Werner Heisenberg
Known for his work in quantum electrodynamics and for being an excellent science communicator
Richard Feynman