Discoveries in Physics

56. Who discovered the law of conservation of energy?
a) Julius Robert von Mayer
b) James Prescott Joule
c) Michael Faraday
d) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

57. Who discovered the concept of the wave nature of light?
a) Christiaan Huygens
b) Isaac Newton
c) Galileo Galilei
d) James Clerk Maxwell

58. Who discovered the principle of least action?
a) Pierre Louis Maupertuis
b) Leonhard Euler
c) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
d) Isaac Newton

59. Who discovered the concept of blackbody radiation?
a) Max Planck
b) Albert Einstein
c) Niels Bohr
d) Werner Heisenberg

60. Who discovered the concept of time dilation?
a) Albert Einstein
b) Isaac Newton
c) Galileo Galilei
d) James Clerk Maxwell