Mechanics
The Scottish scientist who developed a scale for measuring the strength of materials.
Who is Thomas Young?
The British scientist who invented the logarithmic scale for measuring the magnitude (or brightness) of stars?
Who is Norman Pogson?
The Dutch Scientist who discovered superconductors
Who is Heike Kamerlingh Onnes?
The French scientist who formulated the wave theory of light.
Who is Augustin-Jean Fresnel?
The scientist who developed the cyclotron (a machine to understand nuclear reactions).
Who is Ernest O. Lawrence?
The British scientist who first measured Newton's gravitational constant.
Who is Henry Cavendish?
The French scientist known for perturbation theory in celestial mechanics.
Who is Henri Poincaré?
The English Scientist who theorized electromagnetic radiation.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
The French physicist known for his principle of least time.
Pierre de Fermat
The German scientist who discovered relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The German physicist who formulated the uncertainty principle.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
The Indian-American scientist who calculated the maximum mass of a white dwarf star before collapsing into a black hole.
Who is Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar?
The German scientist that proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.
Who is Hertz?
The Polish physicist who discovered the elements polonium and radium.
Who is Marie Curie?
The Austrian scientist who discovered the sound barrier.
Who is Christian Doppler?
The scientist who developed generalized coordinates in mechanics and also generalized one of Newton's law of motion.
Who is Joseph-Louis Lagrange?
The German physicist who formulated the laws of blackbody radiation.
Who is Max Planck?
The scientist from New Zealand who discovered the nucleus of an atom.
Who is Ernest Rutherford?
The British engineer that discovered holography.
Who is Dennis Gabor?
The French scientist who theorized the existence of matter waves.
Who is Louis de Broglie?
The 1965 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for the development of quantum electrodynamics.
Who is Richard Feynman
The American astronomer who discovered the redshift of galaxies.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
The Austrian scientist that showed that no two fermions can occupy the same four quantum numbers?
Who is Wolfgang Pauli?
The scientist(s) known to discover nuclear fission (bonus points for saying more than one).
Who is Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann.
The scientist who developed diffraction grating and the formulation of plane wave diffraction.
Who is Joseph von Fraunhofer?