When did Aristotle propose that all matter is made of fire, water, air, and earth
What is 4th century B.C.?
100
What law of planetary motion did Johannes Kepler publish in De Harmonics Mundi?
What is the third law of planetary motion?
100
In this time, Isaac Newton was able to split light into a spectrum by passing light through as prism.
What is in 1666?
100
What did Henry Cavendish do to calculate the gravitational constant, G?
What is Henry using a torsion balance apparatus to calculate the Earth's mass?
100
When did Paul Villard discover gamma rays?
When is 1900?
200
In the mid-4th to mid-3rd century B.C., Democritus proposes this theory.
What is the theory that all matter is made of small, invisible units called atoms?
200
When and who created the mathematical formula to calculate refraction of light when traveling through two materials?
What is Willebrod Snell who created this formula in 1620?
200
Who calculated the speed of light?
What is Olaus Reomer?
200
Who discovered infrared and ultraviolet rays?
Who is William Herschel and Johann Wilhelm Ritter?
200
When were the first Nobel Prizes awarded, and who received one in physics?
When is 1901 and who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
300
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernius publishes this book, in which he proposes the theory of the earth orbiting the sun.
What is "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies?"
300
What was Novum Organum about, and who published it?
What is Sir Francis Bacon who describe the principles of the Scientific Method in his book?
300
Who built the first reflecting telescope?
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
What did James Clerk Maxwell discover is the 1850's?
What is the discovery of mathematical equations to describe electromagnetism?
300
Who discovered the element of uranium in March 28, 1902?
Who is Marie and Pierre Curie?
400
This society formed in London in 1660 and encouraged the following...
What is the advancement in science and learning?
400
In 1632, Galileo Galilei these proposed these two concepts that were discovered by using inclined planes to measure the acceleration of falling objects. This later laid the groundwork for Newton's Laws of Motion and Einstein's theory if relativity.
What is the concept of inertia and the role friction plays when it comes to slowing down moving objects?
400
Who published the "Hypothesis Of Light," the "Principia," and the "Optiks?"
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
Who in 1867 was born in Warsaw, Poland?
Who is Marie Sklodowska, ( later known as Marie Curie)?
400
What did Ernst Rutherford and Fredrick Soddy prove in 1902?
What is the fact that radioelements slowly and spontaneously change from one element to another?
500
In 1665, these two people created calculus mathematical equations to describe the tangent to a curve and to calculate the area under a curve.
What is Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz?
500
This date was the time when one brilliant mind died, and a new one was born soon after that.
What is 1642, in which was the time when Galileo died, and Isaac Newton was born soon afterwards.
500
When did Isaac Newton die, and where was he buried in?
What is in 1727, and was buried in Westminster Abbey?
500
Who discovered x-rays and published it in 1896?
Who is William Roentgen?
500
When did the Laborde brothers publish their findings that one gram of radium spontaneously heats a gram of water from freezing to boiling in one hour?