====== Physics ====== Physics is the branch of science that deals with the fundamental principles of STEM: space, time, energy and matter. It seeks to understand the fundamental laws that govern the universe and explain the interactions between particles, forces, and the physical properties of matter. The main branches of physics include mechanics, gravitation, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, optics, atomic and chemical physics, condensed-matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, quantum mechanics, and relativistic mechanics. The following scientists had some of the most important contributions in the development of physics sorted historically. - [[Galileo]] Galilei - Isaac [[Newton]] - [[Sadi Carnot]] - [[Robert Mayer]] - [[James Joule]] - [[Hermann Helmholtz]] - [[William Thomson]] - [[Rudolf Clausius]] - [[Willard Gibbs]] - [[Walther Nernst]] - [[Michael Faraday]] - [[James Clerk Maxwell]] - [[Ludwig Boltzmann]] - [[Albert Einstein]] - [[Max Planck]] - [[Niels Bohr]] - [[Wolfgang Pauli]] - [[Werner Heisenberg]] - [[Erwin Schrödinger]] - [[Louis de Broglie]] - [[Marie Curie]] - [[Ernst Rutherford]] - [[Lise Meitner]] - [[Enrico Fermi]] - [[Paul Dirac]] - [[Richard Feynman]] - [[Murray Gell-Mann]] - [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]] - [[Stephen Hawking]]