230 Appendix 1: Discoveries by Scientific Field
Discovery
Discovering Scientist
Year
Page
Periodic Table
Radioactivity
Radioactive dating
Isotopes
Mendeleyev, Dmitri
Curie, Marie and Pierre
Boltwood, Bertram
Soddy, Frederick
1880
1901
1907
1913
90
105
119
133
Archimedes
Galilei, Galileo
Torricelli, Evangelista
Newton, Isaac
Newton, Isaac
Franklin, Benjamin
Lavoisier, Antoine
Rumford, Count
Herschel, Frederick
Ritter, Johann
Dalton, John
Oersted, Hans
Joule, James
Helmholtz, H. von
Doppler, Christian
Maxwell, James
Roentgen, Wilhelm
Einstein, Albert
Einstein, Albert
Onnes, Heike
Bohr, Niels
Born, Max
Heisenberg, Werner
Michelson, Albert
Dirac, Paul
Chadwick, James
Yukawa, Hideki
Meitner, Lise
Hahn, Otto
Bardeen, John
Shannon, Claude
Bethe, Hans
Spitzer, Lyman
Gell-Mann, Murry
Rubbia, Carlo
260 B.C.
1598
1640
1666
1687
1752
1789
1790
1800
1801
1802
1820
1843
1847
1848
1864
1895
1905
1905
1911
1913
1925
1927
1928
1929
1932
1937
1939
1939
1947
1948
1951
1951
1962
1983
3
9
17
23
31
38
47
49
55
55
59
65
71
73
75
83
95
111
114
128
131
148
153
155
160
163
171
178
178
183
188
192
192
203
171
Physics
Levers and buoyancy
Law of falling objects
Air pressure
Universal gravitation
Laws of motion
Nature of electricity
Conservation of matter
Nature of heat
Infrared
Ultraviolet
Atoms
Electromagnetism
Calorie
Conservation of energy
Doppler effect
Electromagnetic radiation
X-rays
Energy equation
Relativity
Superconductivity
Atomic bonding
Quantum theory
Uncertainty Principle
Speed of light
Antimatter
Neutron
Strong force
Nuclear fission
Semiconductor transistor
Definition of information
Nuclear fusion
Quarks
Weak force