Ten Things: January

This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.

Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.

Important Physics Discoveries

  1. Gravity
  2. Laws of Motion
  3. Wheel
  4. Atomic structure
  5. Speed of light
  6. Transistors
  7. Electromagnetism
  8. Spectrum of light
  9. Heliocentric planetary system
  10. Doppler Effect