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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.
Isaac Newton, a posthumous child born with no father on Christmas Day, 1642, was the last wonderchild to whom the Magi could do sincere and appropriate homage. – John Maynard Keynes , "Newton, the Man" [ 174 ]
Father Francesco Lana-Terzi [29] and Abbas ibn Firnas [1] [30] [31] Ibn Firnas built the first human carrying glider and is reputed to have attempted two successful flights. [32] [33] Wrote Prodromo alla Arte Maestra (1670); first to describe the geometry and physics of a flying vessel Bionanotechnology: Carlo Montemagno [34]
Physics is a branch of science in which the primary objects of study are matter and energy.These topics were discussed by philosophers across many cultures in ancient times, but they had no means to distinguish causes of natural phenomena from superstitions.
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born at his parents' home in Bristol, England, on 8 August 1902, [43] and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city. [44] His father, Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac, was an immigrant from Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, of French descent, [45] who worked in Bristol as a French teacher.
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (/ ˈ p l æ ŋ k /; [2] German: [maks ˈplaŋk] ⓘ; [3] 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquely [1] shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". [2]
Reuleaux served on several international juries and commissions and considerably involved in formation of a patent system, as he was active in German politics. In 1877, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. [3] He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1882.