You will be assigned a famous physicist. Your job is to research that physicist and discover their accomplishments as well as their impact on everyday life. You will be asked to create a one paragraph summary of your research on that physicist that you will read to the class. This will count as a classwork grade.
1. James Watt
2. Johannes van der Waals
3. Joseph John Thomson
4. Thales
5. J. Robert Oppenheimer
6. Max Karl Ernst Planck
7. Robert Hooke
8. Galileo Galilei
9. Michael Faraday
10. Enrico Fermi
11. Rene Descartes
12. Henry Cavendish
13. John Douglas Cockcroft
14. Ludwig Eduard Boltzman
15. Aristotle
16. Paul Dirac
17. Max Born
18. Johannes Kepler
19. Blaise Pascal
20. Hideki Yukawa