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First mathematical theory of light (a wave theory).
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Christiaan Huygens
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Demonstration of the first self-sustaining Nuclear chain reaction.
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Enrico Fermi
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Theorem that states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law.
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Amalie Emmy Nother
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Law of electromagnetic induction.
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Michael Faraday
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Prediction of a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory that explains why some fundamental particles have mass when, based on the symmetries controlling their interactions, they should be massless.
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Peter Higgs
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General Theory of Relativity.
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Albert Einstein
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Circuital law that relates the integrated magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current passing through the loop.
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Andre-Marie Ampere
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Law of elasticity.
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Robert Hooke
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Long-distance radio transmission.
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Prediction of the black-body radiation released by black holes, due to quantum effects near the event horizon.
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Stephen Hawking
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Transport equation that describes the statistical behavior of a thermodynamic system not in a state of equilibrium.
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Ludwig Boltzmann
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Modern alternating current electricity supply system.
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Nikola Tesla
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Measurement of the electron's charge (together with Harvey Fletcher).
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Robert Andrews Millikan
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Experimental gas law that describes how the pressure of a gas tends to increase as the volume of the container decreases.
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Robert Boyle
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Identification of the electron.
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Joseph John Thompson
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Introduction of azimuthal and spin quantum numbers.
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Arnold Sommerfield
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Electromagnetic theory.
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Wave mechanics in quantum theory.
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Erwin Schrodinger
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First electric battery.
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Allesandro Volta
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Discovery of radioactivity.
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Henri Becquerel
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Geometric mathematical model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Introduction of the quark, independently of George Zweig.
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Murray Gell-Mann
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Circuit laws (dealing with current and voltage).
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Gustav Kirchoff
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Explanation about black-body radiation with the development of a law that was a pioneering result of quantum theory.
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Max Planck
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Determination of the approximate value of the lower limit to temperature (absolute zero).
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William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin
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Relativistic wave equation that describes the behavior of fermions and predicts the existence of antimatter.
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
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