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According to legend, a falling apple inspired this scientist to develop his theory of gravity in the 1680s.
- Galileo Galilei
- Johannes Kepler
- Isaac Newton
- Robert Hooke
This Italian astronomer famously faced trial by the Inquisition for supporting the idea that Earth orbits the Sun.
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Giordano Bruno
- Galileo Galilei
- Tycho Brahe
The first atomic bomb was tested in 1945 at this New Mexico site, part of the Manhattan Project.
- Los Alamos
- White Sands
- Trinity Site
- Alamogordo Base
This English physicist discovered the law of elasticity and coined the term "cell" in biology.
- Robert Boyle
- Robert Hooke
- Edmund Halley
- Christopher Wren
This Dutch scientist proposed that light travels as waves, competing with particle theory in the 1600s.
- Christiaan Huygens
- Robert Hooke
- Ole Rømer
- Gottfried Leibniz
This Hungarian physicist conceived the idea of a nuclear chain reaction in 1933 while crossing a London street.
- Edward Teller
- John von Neumann
- Leo Szilard
- Eugene Wigner
This British scientist discovered the electron in 1897 while studying cathode rays at Cambridge.
- J.J. Thomson
- Ernest Rutherford
- James Chadwick
- Paul Dirac
This American inventor and scientist famously flew a kite during a thunderstorm to study electricity.
- Thomas Edison
- Nikola Tesla
- Joseph Henry
- Benjamin Franklin
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