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According to legend, a falling apple inspired this scientist to develop his theory of gravity in the 1680s.
Difficulty: Easy- Galileo Galilei
- Johannes Kepler
- Isaac Newton
- Robert Hooke
This British scientist discovered the electron in 1897 while studying cathode rays at Cambridge.
Difficulty: Medium- J.J. Thomson
- Ernest Rutherford
- James Chadwick
- Paul Dirac
These physicists showed that electrons acquire a phase shift from magnetic flux they never touch, a purely topological effect.
Difficulty: Hard- Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm
- John Bell
- Eugene Wigner
- David Deutsch
This Italian astronomer famously faced trial by the Inquisition for supporting the idea that Earth orbits the Sun.
Difficulty: Easy- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Giordano Bruno
- Galileo Galilei
- Tycho Brahe
This experiment in 1887 failed to detect "luminiferous ether," leading to major revisions of physics.
Difficulty: Medium- Millikan oil drop experiment
- Davisson-Germer experiment
- Michelson-Morley experiment
- Stern-Gerlach experiment
This physicist introduced the c-theorem showing that degrees of freedom decrease under renormalization flow.
Difficulty: Hard- Alexander Zamolodchikov
- Alexander Polyakov
- John Cardy
- Kenneth Wilson
The first atomic bomb was tested in 1945 at this New Mexico site, part of the Manhattan Project.
Difficulty: Easy- Los Alamos
- White Sands
- Trinity Site
- Alamogordo Base
This American physicist discovered the positron in 1932, confirming the existence of antimatter.
Difficulty: Medium- Robert Millikan
- Arthur Compton
- Clinton Davisson
- Carl Anderson
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