Physics & Astronomy

38 minutes (3,3 km)

Route along the discoveries at the boundaries of space, time, and matter.

1
Willem van s Gravesande

Expansion of matter under heat and kinetic energy

Willem van ’s Gravesande
2
Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Molecular thermodynamics

Van Der Waals
3
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

Electron theory

Lorentz
4
George Uhlenbeck

Electron spins

George Ulhenbeck en Samuel Goudsmit
5
Pieter Zeeman

Impact of magnetic field on light

Pieter Zeeman
6
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Superconductivity

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
7
Simon Stevin

Decimal fractions

Simon Stevin
8
Pieter van Musschenbroeck

Electric condenser

Pieter van Musschenbroeck
9
Willebrord Snellius

Light refraction

Willebrord Snellius
10
Drukkerij Elsevier

Galileo’s Discourses

Elsevier Publishers
11
Henk van de Hulst

Radio astronomy

Henk van de Hulst and Jan Oort
12
Jan Oort

Structure of the Milky Way

Jan Oort
13
Jan Oort

The origin of comets

Jan Oort
14
Albert Einstein

First model of the Universe according to the theory of relativity

Albert Einstein and Willem De Sitter