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Newton's Principia Latin

Discovery of the electron.

March

Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt.

May

Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen.

June

Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper.

September

Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?

Discovery of the nucleus.

Veröffentlichung der Schrödinger-Gleichung (Metzger and Wittig).

Discovery of the Higgs (ATLAS).

Physicists

Λεύκιππος

(Fifth century BC)

Δημόκριτος

(460 - 370 BC)

Ἐπίκουρος

(341 - 270 BC)

Nicolaus Copernicus

(1473 - 1543 AD)

Galileo Galilei

(1564 - 1642 AD)

Isaac Newton

(1642 - 1727 AD)

\begin{equation} \textbf{F} = \frac{d \textbf{p}}{dt} \end{equation}

Leonhard Euler

(1707 - 1783 AD)

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

(1736 - 1813 AD)

André-Marie Ampère

(1775 - 1836 AD)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

(1777 - 1855)

\begin{equation} \epsilon_0 \oint_S \textbf{E} \cdot dA = Q_{enc} \end{equation}

Georg Ohm

(1789 - 1854 AD)

Faraday

(1791 - 1867 AD)

Sir William Rowan Hamilton

(1805 - 1865 AD)

Gustav Kirchoff

(1824 - 1887 AD)

\begin{equation} \Delta V = 0 \end{equation}

James Clerk Maxwell

(1831 - 1879 AD)

\begin{equation} \oint_S E \cdot dA = \frac{Q_{enc}}{\epsilon_0} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \oint_{loop} E \cdot ds = - \frac{d \Phi_B}{dt} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \oint_S B \cdot dA = 0 \end{equation} \begin{equation} \oint_{loop} B \cdot ds = \mu_0 \textbf{i}_c + \frac{d \Phi_E}{dt} \end{equation}

Edward Morley

(1838 - 1923 AD)

Oliver Heaviside

(1850 - 1925 AD)

A.A. Michelson

(1852 - 1931 AD)

Henri Poincaré

(1854 - 1912 AD)

J. J. Thomson

(1856 - 1940 AD)

Planck

(1858 - 1947 AD)

Rutherford

(1871 - 1937 AD)

Albert Einstein

(1879 - 1955 AD)

\begin{equation} l =\frac{l_0}{\gamma} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \tau = \gamma \, \tau_0 \end{equation} \begin{equation} \Delta E \approx \Delta mc^2 \end{equation}

Max Born

(1882 - 1970 AD)

\begin{equation} \left| \psi\right|^2 = 1 \end{equation}

Erwin Schrödinger

(1887 - 1961 AD)

\begin{equation} i \hbar \frac{\partial \Psi}{dt} = \hat{H} \Psi \end{equation}

Wolgang Pauli

(1900 - 1958 AD)

Heisenberg

(1901 - 1976 AD)

\begin{equation} \Delta x \Delta p \geq \frac{h}{4 \pi} \end{equation}

Paul Dirac

(1902 - 1984 AD)

Feynman

(1918 - 1988 AD)

Steven Weinberg

(1933 - 2021 AD)

Stephen Hawking

(1942 - 2018 AD)

Dates are taken from the SEP and Britannica.