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Isaac Newton (Jan 4, 1643-Mar 31, 1727)

 Newton was born to a farmer in Lincolnshire, England. He was extremely involved in his studies while growing up. He was an odd man but brilliant. Newton said that he believed the world was a mechanical universe that had small solid masses in motion. He was extremely religious and spent most of his time writing works on interpretation of the Bible. He was the first scientist to ever be knighted.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

(June 14,1736- Aug 23, 1806)



Coulomb was born in Angouleme, France, to a wealthy family. He became a scholar at a young age attending many prestigious schools. In his early twenties he entered a military school in Mezieres. He served during the Seven Years War. While in service he conducted all different research. He studied electromagnetism. He said that the magnitude of the electrostatic force between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of each of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the two changes. In this rule (Coulomb’s rule 1783) properties of space, which can be calculated exactly are the constant variable. This rule can be used to interpret in terms of atomic mass to be put into Bohr’s radius.

Antoine Lavoisier (Aug 26, 1743-May 8, 1794)



 Lavoisier was a French nobleman. He was a tax collector and banker. He had a law degree as well but never practiced. He was a liberal minded man and lived during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. During the French Revolution He did things such as create the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements (after discovering and naming oxygen(1778) and hydrogen(1783)), and he tried to help the peasants by making a uniform system of measurements. He was accused of selling tobacco that was watered down and in the height of all the killings of the French Revolution he was rushed to his death, the guillotine. A year and a half later he was exonerated by the French government for being falsely convicted.

 Lavoisier stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass(1789). This is that a mass of an isolated system will remain constant over time. In a chemical reaction matter can not be created or destroyed.

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