| Description of the law discovered | Discoverer | Year discovered |
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| His principle of buoyancy can be used to determine if a crown is actually gold | |
| His three laws of planetary motion included one that said orbits are elliptical with the sun at a focus | |
| This man's law of refraction explains why your finger appears bent when placed in a glass of water | |
| A bitter rival of Mr. 1687, he would likely be remembered for more than his law of elasticity, F=-k*x, if he hadn't died first | |
| The first of the gas laws discovered, his states that pressure and volume are inversely proportional | |
| The three laws of motion named after this person help to give him the title of greatest physicist of all time | |
| His law of fluid dynamics explains how pressure and velocity are related, and thus how airplanes fly | |
| His law of electrostatics showed that the electric force diminished by the square of the distance | |
| This gas law relates volume and temperature, V=k*T | |
| This man's law of partial pressures states that the pressure from a mixture of gases is just the sum of pressures of the component gases | |
| His gas law relates the pressure of a gas and the amount of gas dissolved in a liquid, which explains how divers get the bends | |
| Another gas law; his states that equal volumes of gases contain the same number of molecules | |
| As a father of electrodynamics, his law of electromagnetism shows that current produces a magnetic field | |
| This man's law of electricity is simply I=V/R | |
| His law of induction states that a changing magnet field produces an electric current | |
| This prolific mathematician is known for his law of electricity and for his law of magnetism | |
| His law states that a solution absorbs light proportional to the concentration of dissolved solute, A=ε*c*l | |
| He didn't actually discover a law, but his four equations explain all electromagnetic phenomena | |
| Ushering the quantum era, this man's law states that the amount of energy released by a blackbody radiator depends only on the temperature of the blackbody and the wavelength | |
| Changing our perception of the universe, this man's law of cosmic expansion states that the farther a galaxy is from earth, the faster it is receding | |
| A father and son pair is credited for discovering the law of crystal diffraction. Working with x-rays, this law helped them identify the crystal structure of sodium chloride | |
| A special case of the law discovered in 1738, this man's law states that the speed of a fluid leaving a container depends only on the height of water above the opening | |
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Featured Sep 16, 2010
