KERALA PSC / PHYSICS / FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND INVENTION / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / PHYSICS / FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND INVENTION / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

KERALA PSC / PHYSICS / FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND INVENTION / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

Famous Scientists and Invention

Scientists

Invention

Galileo Galilei

Discovered the phases of Venus, the four satellites of Jupiter Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede

Christiaan Huygens

Wave theory

Sir Isaac Newton

Newton’s Laws of Motion, Universal gravitation, Calculus

Benjamin Franklin

Discovered the two electric charges, ‘positive’ and ‘negative’`

James Watt

Modern condenser steam engine

Michael Faraday

Electromagnetic induction

Sir Chandrasekhara Raman

Scattering of light and found the Raman effect

Nikola Tesla

Alternating current

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Determined the  temperature scale called Fahrenheit scale

Christian Doppler

Doppler effect

James Chadwick

Neutron

J Robert Oppenheimer

Atom Bomb

Dalton

Atomic Theory

Carrier

Air conditioning

Evangelista Torricelli

Barometer

Alessandro Volta

Battery (Electric)

Kirkpatrick Macmillan

Bicycle

Tennant

Bleaching powder

Edwin T. Holmes

Burglar Alarm

John Harrison

Chronometer

Nicolas & Jean Lumiere

Cinema

Wilmut

Cloning (Mammal)

Rudolf Diesel

Diesel Engine

Thomas Alva Edison

Electric Lamp

Henry W. Seely

Electric Iron

J.J Thomson

Electron

Lewis E Waterman

Fountain Pen

Thomas Alva Edison

Gramophone

Denis Gason

Holograph

Edward Teller

Hydrogen Bomb

Sir Frank Whittle

Jet Engine

Theodore Maiman

Laser

Elisha G. Otis

Lift (Mechanical)

Benjamin Franklin

Lighting Conductor

John Logie Baird

Mechanical Television

Rutherford

Proton

Albert Einstein

General theory of Relativity, explained the phenomena of photo electric effect (Nobel Prize in 1921)

Henrich Hertz

Photoelectric effect

Maxwell

Electromagnetic theory of light

Max Planck

Quantum theory (Nobel Prize in 1918)

Marconi

Wireless

S.Chandrasekhar

Chandra Sekhar limit explained the death of stars

J.C Bose

Pioneer in wireless communication, invented Crescograph

S.N Bose

Bose Einstein Calculations and Boson

KERALA PSC / PHYSICS / FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND INVENTION / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES