Pioneer In Science Exercise 02

Pioneer In Science Exercise 02

• Faraday—Electromagnetic induction and laws of electrolysis.
• Fermi—Discovered artificial splitting of atoms.
• Freud—Doctrine of Psycho-analysis.
• Gay Lussac—Law of gases.
• Gauss—System of absolute electric measurements.
• Good Year—Discovered the art of vulcanising rubber.
• Herschel, William—Discovered the Planet—Uranus.
• Hertz—Electrical waves.
• Hippalus—Founder of scientific astronomy.
• Hoffmann—Discovered the first aniline dye.
• Kelvin, Lord—Dynamical theory of heat.
• Khorana, Dr Hargobind—Deciphering the genetic code.
• Kodak—Film and photographic goods.
• Lablanc—Manufacture of washing soda.
• Lawrence—Invention of cyclotron.
• Lockyer—Helium gas.
• Louis Braille—Perfected his system of reading and writing for the blind.
• Marconi—Wireless telegraphy; radio.
• Maria-Montessori—‘Montessori’ method of teaching children.
• Maxwell—Electro-magnetic Theory of Light.
• Meghnad Saha—Effect of pressure on Radiation through bodies.
• Mendel—Laws of heredity.
• Mandeleev—Periodic Table.
• Morse—Morse system of electric telegraphy.
• Newton—Laws of gravitation; Law of Motion.
• Nobel—Dynamite.
• Oliver Lodge—Physicist. Researches in wireless communications.
• Oppenheimer—Researches in atomic theory.
• Otto Hahn—Discovery of uranium fission.
• Parkes—Celluloid.
• Parsons—Steam turbine.
• Pavlov—Theory of Conditioned Reflex.
• Perkin—‘Mauve dye’.
• Pitman—Founded the Pitman system of phonographic shorthand.
• Planck—Quantum theory.
• Plimsoll—Introduced a line of demarcation on the ships beyond which the ships cannot be loaded.
• Priestley—Discovery of Oxygen.
• Raman, C.V.—“Raman Effect” on polarisation of light and theories on crystals and diamond formation.
• Ramanathan—Molecular scattering of light in fluids.
• Ramanujam—A great Indian mathematician.
• Ramsay—Discovery of Inert gases such as Argon, Neon, Helium etc.
• Ray, P.C.—Researches in chemistry.
• Regnault—Experiments in regard to the physical properties of bodies and their relation to heat.
• Roger Bacon—Gun powder.
• Rontgen—Discovery of X-rays.
• Rohmkorff—Induction coil.
• Rutherford—Atomic Research; succeeded in splitting the atom for the first time in 1918. Shalimar—Paints.
• Stephenson—British engineer and pioneer in Railways. He was the first to put a locomotive on the line that was able to draw a train of 31 carriages.
• Thomson, J.J.—Discovered electron.
• Travers—Discovery of Neon gas (Working with Ramsay).
• Urey—Discovery of Heavy Hydrogen.
• Volta—Current electricity and electric battery.
• Pioneers in Mechanical Inventions and Discoveries
• Austin—Motor Car.
• Bell, Graham—Telephone.
• Berliner—Microphone.