(c. 287-212 b.c.) Greek Theoretician and Experimentalist (Mechanics, Hydrostatics), Mathematician, Astronomer Archimedes is widely viewed as the greatest scientist of the ancient world. As a physicist, he is credited with establishing the fields of statics, a branch of mechanics dealing with the forces on an object or in a system in equilibrium, and hydrostatics, […]
(1814-1874) Swedish Spectroscopist, Astronomer Anders Angstrom is known as the father of spectroscopy, the branch of physics that studies light by using a prism or diffraction grating to spread out the light into its range of individual colors or spectrum. Angstrom was born in Logdo, Sweden, on August 13, 1814, the son of a […]