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name	born	died	description
Aristotle	-384	-322	laws of motion
Claudius Ptolemy	90	168	math model of celestial motions
Nicolaus Copernicus	1473	1543	heliocentric theory
Johannes Kepler	1571	1630	elliptical orbits of planets
Galileo Galilei	1564	1642	laws of motion, telescopes
René Descartes	1596	1650	analytic geometry
Isaac Newton	1642	1727	gravity, laws of motion
Benjamin Franklin	1706	1790	lightning
Antoine Lavoisier	1743	1794	conservation of mass
Luigi Galvani	1737	1798	bioelectricity
Charles de Coulomb	1736	1806	electrostatic laws
Joseph Proust	1754	1826	law of chemical proportions
Alessandro Volta	1745	1827	batteries
André-Marie Ampère	1775	1836	electrodynamics
John Dalton	1766	1844	atomic theory of matter
Hans Ørsted	1777	1851	mag. fields from elec. currents
Michael Faraday	1797	1867	electromagnetic induction
James Clerk Maxwell	1831	1879	formulas for electromagnetism
Dmitri Mendeleev	1834	1907	periodic table
Oliver Heaviside	1850	1925	practical EM theory
Hendrik Lorentz	1853	1928	special relativity
Ernest Rutherford	1871	1937	atomic nuclei
Albert Einstien	1879	1955	general relativity
Niels Bohr	1885	1962	electron shells