Who is known as the Father of Physics?

Answer: When asked who is the ‘father of physics?’ The title goes to the three renowned scientists- Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein.

Galileo Galilei: The Father of Physics 

1. Galileo Galilei, an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, earned the title ‘Father of Physics’ due to his major contribution to finding the motion of bodies and the development of the telescope. 
2. Incidentally, the phases of Venus and also the four largest moons of Jupiter were discovered by him using his telescope. 
3. It is at the age of 19 that the pendulum’s isochronal nature was discovered by him. Also, a swinging lamp’s oscillations in the Pisa Cathedral were timed by him. 
4. It is Galileo’s theories and concepts that formed the base for the laws of Motion and Theory of Relativity.

Isaac Newton: The Father of Modern Physics

1. Sir Isaac Newton, associated with Cambridge University as a physicist and mathematician, became famous after propounding three laws of motion that established a connection between objects and motion.
2. The law of Universal Gravitation was discovered by him and it is this law that defined the behavior of falling bodies.
3. Also, he invented calculus in mathematics.

Albert Einstein: The Father of Modern Physics 

1. With the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein transformed the landscape of physics. Also, this theory majorly contributed to designing the theory of Quantum Mechanics.
2. The mass-energy equivalence formula (E = mc2), propounded by Albert Einstein etched his name as the greatest physicist of all time in the books of history.
3. Because of his contributions to modern science, the Nobel Prize was awarded to him in 1921.