Physicists

7 Nov 1867

Marie Curie

Physicist and chemist who discovered polonium and radium, coined the term radioactivity, and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. She refused to patent the isolation of radium.

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14 Mar 1879

Albert Einstein

Physicist whose 1905 papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and special relativity each would have made a career, and whose general relativity of 1915 replaced Newton’s account of gravity with the curvature of spacetime.

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4 Jan 1643

Isaac Newton

Set out the laws of motion and universal gravitation in the Principia of 1687, invented calculus in parallel with Leibniz, and spent rather more of his life on alchemy and biblical chronology than on either.

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