Find the name of 5 famous physicists and write some lines on their biography and some achievements.
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition.
Notable ideas: Aristotelian philosophy; Syllogism; Theory of the soul; Virtue ethics
Main interests: Biology; Zoology; Psychology; Physics; Metaphysics; Logic; Ethics; R...
Died: 322 BC (aged 61–62); Euboea, Macedonian Empire
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian.. He was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His mother died when he was three years old. His father's name was Étienne.
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Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[a]) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus.
Albert Einstein was a German mathematician and physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. In the following decade, he immigrated to the U.S. after being targeted by the German Nazi Party.
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa.
Born: Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei; 15 February 1564; Pisa, Duchy of Flor...
Died: 8 January 1642 (aged 77); Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Institutions: University of Pisa; University of Padua
Fields: Astronomy, physics, engineering, natural philosophy, mathematics