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The Scientific Revolution occurs in Europe around this period, greatly accelerating the progress of science and contributing to the rationalization of the natural sciences. 16th century: Gerolamo Cardano solves the general cubic equation (by reducing them to the case with zero quadratic term).
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For systemic use of experimentation in science and contributions to scientific method, physics and observational astronomy. The work of Principia by Newton, who also refined the scientific method, and who is widely regarded as the most important figure of the Scientific Revolution. [4] [5] Science (ancient) Thales (c. 624/623 – c. 548/545 BC ...
Galileo Galilei, the founder of Modern Science and Physics . Dennis Gabor – Hungary (1900–1979) Nobel laureate; Mary K. Gaillard – France, United States (born 1939) Galileo Galilei – Italy (1564–1642) Luigi Galvani – Italy (1737–1798) George Gamow – Russia, United States (1904–1968) Domenica Garzón – Ecuador (living)
Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016), together with Osamu Shimomura (1928–2018) and Martin Chalfie (born 1947), U.S. – Discovery and development of Green fluorescent protein; Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), Russia – spaceflight
Delbrück, Salvador Luria, and Alfred Hershey shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses" Emilio Del Giudice (Italian, 1940–2014) — water research; Friedrich Dessauer — research on radiation, especially X-rays
"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique" Theodor W. Hänsch (b. 1941) German 2006 John C. Mather (b. 1946) American "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation" [109] George Smoot (b. 1945) 2007 ...
Science portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. ... List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants