List five scientist who contributed to the concept of electrostatics and describe the works of any two of them.
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Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 - INDUCTED: 1979
Contributed to science with important experiments on electricity. Introduced the concept of positive and negative charge. Discovered the electrical nature of lightning through the famous kite-experiment. Invented the lightning rod.
Charles A. Coulomb 1736-1806 - INDUCTED: 1979
French physicist. Research on electricity and magnetism. Invented torsion balance; used this to demonstrate that the force of electrostatic repulsion or attraction is proportional to the product of the charge on each sphere and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the centers of the spheres (Coulomb's Law).
William Gilbert 1544-1603 - INDUCTED: 1979
Pioneer researcher who was first to use the terms electrical attraction and electrical force. Considered to be the father of electrical studies.
Robert A. Millikan 1868-1953 - INDUCTED: 1979
American scientist. Nobel laureate. Measured the charge of the electron and gave the first precise determination of Avogadro's number (1910). Verified Einstein's photoelectric equation and worked on the determination of Plank's constant (1912-15). Pioneering work on cosmic rays.
Henry Cavendish 1731-1810 - INDUCTED: 1979
Measured the capacitance of capacitors and discovered and measured specific inductive capacity. He showed that charge is confined to the surface of a conductor and that the force between two charges is inversely proportional to the square of their separation to within 2%.
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