LIFE &

CONTRIBUTIONS
OF SELECTED
FOREIGN
SCIENTISTS

* SIR ISAAC NEWTON

*DMITRI MENDELEEV
*ERNEST RUTHERFORD
*ANTOINE LAVOISIER
*ALBERT EINSTEIN

SIR ISAAC NEWTON

ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)

BORN : CHRISTMAS DAY 1642

PLACE: WOOLSTHROPE

FATHER : YEOMAN

MOTHER: HANNA

GRAGUATED FROM: CAMBRIDGE (1665)

SCIENTIFIC
ACHIEVEMENTS
MATHEMATICS

BINOMIAL THEOREM

EXPANSION OF INFINITE SERIES

INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS

OPTICS
THE

CRUCIAL EXPERIMENT:

Newtons famous experiment, the

experimentum crucis, demonstrated his
theory of the composition of light.

o NEWTONS RINGS

MECHANICS

NEWTONS LAWS OF MOTION

NEWTONS LAW OF GRAVITATION

DMITRI IVANOVICH
MENDELEEV

MENDELEEV (1897-1907)

Born :8 FEB 1834

Place : Verkhinie Aremzyani, in the
Russian province of Siberia

Alma mater: St. Petersburg University

In 1906 : Received Noble prize

died :2 February,1907

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION
Formulating

elements.

the Periodic table of chemical

In a dream I saw a table where all the

elements fell into place as required.
Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on
a piece of paper.

pyrocollodion (a kind of
smokeless powder based on nitrocellulose)

Invented

ERNEST RUTHERFORD

ERNEST RUTHERFORD (18711937)

Born: 30 august, 1871

Place: Spring Grove near Nelson

Father: James Rutherford

Mother: Martha Thompson

Died: 19 October,1937

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS

Magnetization of Iron by High-Frequency

discharges.
Successfully marked out a new branch of Physics
called radioactivity.
Discovered two distinctive types of radiation
alpha and beta.

ANTOINE LAVOISIER

ANTOINE LAVOISIER(1743-1794)

Born: 26 August 1743

Place: Paris, France.

Fields: Biologist, Chemistry

Died: 8 May 1794

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS

Known as father of modern Chemistry

Law of conservation of mass

Developed a new system of chemical

nomenclature

ALBERT EINSTEIN

ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955)

Born: 14 March 1879

Place: Ulm, Kingdom of Wurttemberg, German
empire.

Fields: Physics and Philosophy

Nonel prize: 1921

Died: 18 April 1955

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS
General Relativity And Special Relativity
Photoelectric Effect
Mass Energy Relation:
Theory Of Brownian Motion
Einstein Field Equations
Bose-Einstein Statistics
Bose-Einstein Condensate
Bose-Einstein Correlations
Cosmological Constant
Unified Field Theory