Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Field Person/s considered "father" or "mother" Rationale Science (modern): Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) [1] Isaac Newton (1643–1727) [2] [3]: For systemic use of experimentation in science and contributions to scientific method, physics and observational astronomy.
Robert Boyle FRS [2] (/ b ɔɪ l /; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish [3] natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
Atomic physics, particle physics, cell biology, and neuroscience dominated the two subjects outside chemistry, while molecular chemistry was the chief prize-winning discipline in its domain. Molecular chemists won 5.3% of all science Nobel Prizes during this period. [17]
One of Crookes's students was the Reverend John Barlow, Secretary of the Royal Institution, who chose to take a course in analytical chemistry. Through Barlow, Crookes met scientists such as George Gabriel Stokes and Michael Faraday. [3]: 11 Such friends reinforced Crookes's interest in optical physics [3]: 13 which was respected by Hofmann.
Angela Belcher, American chemist, materials scientist, and biological engineer; Irina Beletskaya (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist; R. P. Bell (1907–1996), English physical chemist; Francesco Bellini (born 1947), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistry
Laura Eisenstein – (1942–1985) professor of physics at University of Illinois; Terence James Elkins – Australia, United States (born 1936) John Ellis – U.K. (born 1946) Paul John Ellis – U.K., United States (1941–2005) Richard Keith Ellis – U.K., United States (born 1949) Arpad Elo – Hungary (1903–1992)
[177] [178] His description reads: "A remarkably versatile scientist, structural chemist Linus Pauling (1901–1994) won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the nature of the chemical bond linking atoms into molecules. His work in establishing the field of molecular biology; his studies of hemoglobin led to the classification of ...
Josiah Willard Gibbs (/ ɡ ɪ b z /; [2] February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in transforming physical chemistry into a rigorous deductive science.