Famous Scientists' List

Famous Scientists' List Name | Birth/Death | Achievements | Albert Einstein | 1879 - 1955 | He is arguably at the pinnacle, if the popularity of all the scientists is taken into account. He demonstrated solutions to a trio of mind-boggling topics in Physics in 1905 and shot into the limelight. | Sir Isaac Newton | 1642 - 1727 | "Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica" called "Principia" is acknowledged as the greatest scientific book ever published. Sir Isaac Newton wrote this in 1687. | Galileo Galilei | 1564 - 1642 | He was the first to use the telescope for furnishing evidence that the Earth revolves around the Sun. This postulate was in contrast to that held by the majority. | Charles Darwin | 1809 - 1882 | "On the origin of species by means of natural selection" is Darwin's famous book published in 1859. | Johannes Kepler | 1571 - 1630 | Kepler compiled the Mars data which enabled him to propose the "Three Laws of Planetary Motion". | Louis Pasteur | 1822 - 1895 | Some of his works are: separation of mirror image molecules and effect of polarized light, and identification of the parasite that was killing silkworms. | James Maxwell | 1831 - 1879 | He is known for the "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" published in 1873. Maxwell independently developed the "Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases". | Edwin Hubble | 1889 - 1953 | "Hubble's Law" stated that galaxies move away from each other at a speed determined by the distance that separated them. He classified galaxies as per their distance, shape, brightness patterns and content. | Emil Fisher | 1852 - 1919 | Some of his works are: synthesis of glucose, fructose, mannose starting with glycerol, and establishing structures for the 16 stereoisomers of the aldohexoses with glucose as the most prominent member. | Paul Dirac | 1902 - 1984 | He received a Nobel prize in 1933 for the work on anti-particles. The "Dirac equation" was a version of the Schrodinger's equation. |