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Born March 23, 1928 • England
Died March 16, 2018 (aged 89) • Germany
Subjects Of Study reflecting telescope • telescope • active optics
Consider how Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity led to a better understanding of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
James Short
British optician and astronomer
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Glauber, Roy J.
Roy J. Glauber
American physicist
Sir David Brewster
Scottish physicist
Amici, Giovanni Battista
Giovanni Battista Amici
Italian astronomer
Giuseppe Campani
Italian inventor
Lippershey, Hans
Hans Lippershey
Dutch inventor
Silvanus Phillips Thompson
British physicist and historian
Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist
Karl August Steinheil
German physicist
William Penney
British scientist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
Physics and Natural Law