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Celsius, Anders
A Swedish astronomer, talented mathematician, a professor of astronomy at Uppsala University, the first to perform and publish careful experiments aiming at the definition of an international temperature scale on scientific grounds.

Chadwick, James
Famous English physicist, discoverer of the neutron and photonuclear reaction.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist. He was best known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named after him.

Curie, Marie
Polish and French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize twice.

Edison, Thomas
American inventor and businessman who developed lots of devices in electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.

Einstein, Albert
A German theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics.

Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel
A Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer (1709) and the mercury thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

Faraday, Michael
English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.

Geiger, Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm
German physicist who was the first to create a detector of alpha particles and other ionizing radiation.

Gray, Louis Harold
Louis Harold Gray was born on 10 November, 1905. He was an English physicist who worked mainly on the effects of radiation on biological systems.


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