Authors: Georgios Spyridonos Limouris
Publish Date: 2006/08/19
Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 65-68
Abstract
By the beginning of the twentieth century two of the fundamental laws in nature those of gravity and electromagnetism had been elucidated The development of classical mechanics from Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton through to Joseph Louis Lagrange and William R Hamilton had proved the dominion of the law of gravity on earth and in the universe while studies by Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell and Heinrich R Hertz on electromagnetic forces had made parallel potent contributions to scientific knowledge The evolution of the kinetic theory of gases and thermodynamics had led scientists to consider matter in terms of molecular or atomic constituents However many properties of the basic building blocks of matter remained undiscovered or poorly understood
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