<p align="right">Last Update: <font color="#4f81bd">November, 25, 2024</font></p> ## BIG IDEA The term **physicist** was coined by William Whewell (also the originator of the term "scientist") in his **1840** book *The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences*. ## Pre-Classical Period Aristotle (384–322 BC) Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC) Maharishi Kanada (second century BC) Claudius Ptolemy (100-170 CE) Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (965 - 1040 CE) ## Classical Period Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) Tycho Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601) Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642) Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) Robert Hooke (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) Isaac Newton (December 25, 1642 – 20 March 20, 1726) John Dalton (September 5, 1766[^1] – July 27, 1844) ## Modern Physics JJ Thomson (December 18, 1856 – August 30, 1940) Marie Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) Max Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) Ernest Rutherford (August 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937) Niels Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) Paul Dirac (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) ### Related Topics --- [[Home|Home]] | [[Notes Vault/Physics Notes Vault/Physics Skills/Physics|Physics]] | [[Classical Physics]] | [[Modern Physics]] | [[Astrophysics]] ## Footnotes [^1]: Possibly September 6, 1766