| Dates |
Characters |
Theories and discoveries |
| 500 – 1 BC |
Archimedes, Aristotle |
Heliocentric theory, geometry |
| 1 – 1300 AD |
Al-hazen, Ptolemy in Egypt |
Optics, geocentric theory |
| 1301 – 1499 |
Leonardo de Vinci, Nicolas Cusanus |
Earth is in motion,Occam’s Razor |
| 1500 – 1599 |
Nicolaus Copernicus,Tycho Brahe |
Heliocentric theory revived, astronomy |
| 1600 – 1650 |
Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler |
Telescope,laws of planetary motion |
| 1651 – 1699 |
Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle |
Newtons Laws, optics, Gas Laws |
| 1700 – 1750 |
Daniel Bernoulli, Edmund Halley |
Thermodynamics, corpuscular theory |
| 1751 – 1799 |
Coulomb, Henry Cavendish |
Gravitational constant, specific heats |
| 1800 – 1830 |
Thomas Young, Michael Faraday |
Interference of light, magnetic field |
| 1831 – 1860 |
Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell |
Theory of heat, Doppler Effect |
| 1861 – 1899 |
Wilhelm Roentgen, Henri Becquerel |
The ether, X-rays, radioactivity |
| 1900 – 1920 |
Max Planck, Albert Einstein |
Quantum Mechanics, special relativity |
| 1921 – 1940 |
Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg |
Accelerators,uncertainty principle |
| 1941 – 1960 |
Richard Feynman, Edward Teller |
Nuclear Bomb, Lasers, the big bang |
| 1961 – 1980 |
Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking |
First man on the moon, black holes |
| 1981 – 1999 |
Carlo Rubbia, Alan Guth |
CERN, Hubble Space Telescope |
| 2000 – Now |
Michio Kaku, John Beamish |
Tau Neutrino, Keck Telescope |
