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Andre Marie Ampere who lived in the years 1775-1836, described the magnetic field occurring around the conductor in which the electric current flows. |
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Michael Faraday was the great chemist and physicist, who lived in the years 1791-1867. He set to research on electrochemistry - he formulated the laws of electrolysis which let the processes of electrolysis be better understood . He systematised electrochemical terms. He studied electromagnetic connections (he invented transformer and dynamo). He considered the interaction of atoms. He was of the opinion that the interaction is transported by the field; that means the ability of space to be distempered caused by some source. In his works he tried to explain the connection between atom and electric forces. |
| Joseph Loschmidt, who lived in the years 1821- 1895 found the order of magnitude of atoms (10-8 cm). |
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James Clerk Maxwell, who lived in the years 1831-1879, formulated the law of the
decomposition of gas molecular velocity (assuming that gas was composed of chaotically moving molecules).
He studied internal friction in gases. Basing on atomistics, he explained the slowness of diffusion. The most important of Maxwell's works were the ones of electromagnetism. He gathered Faraday's theories and ideas and put them into mathematic form. Maxwell equalised the electric and the magnetic field. He foresaw electromagnetic waves subsistence and he evaluated the velocity of their propagation in the empty space - the speed of light. |
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen lived in the years 1845-1923. Among the other his researches he
studied the occurrence of cathode radiation. That occurred
while the electric current flowed through the tube filled with rare gas. The tube started to illuminate
to the negative electrode. Invisible rays coming out of the cathode had to be responsible for that.
He observed their interaction with metals. He noticed that fluorescent crystals, placed near the set
of instruments used in the experiment, started to illuminate. That happened even when he conducted the experiment in absolutely darkness. That occurrence he tried to explain by the subsistence of unknown mysterious, new kind of radiation - X-radiation. Roentgen discovered that the radiation was absorbed by different materials in different degree. That let him make the first photo of alive person hand skeleton. |
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Henri Antoine Becquerel, who lived in the years 1852-1908, tried to find out whether during fluorescence besides visible light there was also the X-ray emission. To check whether it was so, he used photographic plates wrapped in lightproof paper. X-rays could permeate the paper and blacken the plates. On wrapped plates he put shoted samples of uranium. Plates were blacken. Becquerel said that was because they sent X-rays. But few days later he noticed that even non-shoted samples of uranium provocated the same effect. That was the first time when radiation was described. |
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William Ramsay lived in the years 1852-1916. In 1894 he and John
Rayleigh both discovered a new element which Ramsay called argon. It didn't compound
with any other elements and it didn't fit in periodic table. The table had to be enlarged by one
column. A year later Ramsay discovered another element of that group - helium and in 1898
he isolated all noble gasses occurring in the air; that is: argon, neon, helium, krypton, xenon
and in 1910 - radon. Apart from these researches he tried to interpretate Brownian movement explaining them as collisions of observed bodies and invisible particles of medium. |
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| Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, lived in the years 1857-1925. He searched electromagnetic waves - he proved that a fast vibrating charge, just like Maxwella foresaw it, is the source of electromagnetic waves. He also simplified formulas of Maxwella. Hertz discovered also that some metals emit minus particles under the influence of ultraviolet radiation. He noticed that electrical neutral metals become plus charged after the exposure. |
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Svante August Arrhenius who lived in the years 1859-1925, was a Swedish scientist. He created a modern theory of dissociation. He was the first to describe the acts of ions in the solution. |
| Pieter Zeeman lived in the years 1865-1943. He discovered the effect of atoms spectrum's fission when putting them in the outer magnetic field - Zeeman effect. |
The scientist of the 19th century explained many occurrences connected with
electromagnetism and the kinetic theory of gases. X-raying was
discovered. There appeared some new equipment based on electromagnetic occurrences. Soon they were used
in practise in people's life and as the experimental equipment. At the and of the 19th century
the first elementary molecule was finally discovered - the electron.