Here, we have given a list of some famous and important discoveries in Physics with the name of their discoverer.
| S. No. | Discovery | Scientist | Year |
| 1 | Law of Motion | Newton | 1687 |
| 2 | Law of Electrostatic Attraction | Coulomb | 1779 |
| 3 | Atom | John Dalton | 1808 |
| 4 | Photography (On Metal) | J. Neepse | 1826 |
| 5 | Law of Electric Resistance | G.S. Ohm | 1827 |
| 6 | Law of Floatation | Archemedes | 1827 |
| 7 | Electromagnetic Induction | Michael Faraday | 1831 |
| 8 | Photography (On Paper) | W. Fox Talbot | 1835 |
| 9 | Dynamite | Alfred Nobel | 1867 |
| 10 | Periodic Table | Mandeleev | 1888 |
| 11 | X-Rays | Roentgen | 1895 |
| 12 | Radioactivity | Henry Becquerel | 1896 |
| 13 | Electron | J.J. Thomson | 1897 |
| 14 | Radium | Madam Curie | 1898 |
| 15 | Quantum Theory | Max Plank | 1900 |
| 16 | Wireless Telegram | Marconi | 1901 |
| 17 | Diode Bulb | Sir J.S. Fleming | 1904 |
| 18 | Photo Electric Effect | Albert Einstein | 1905 |
| 19 | Principle of Relativity | Albert Einstein | 1905 |
| 20 | Triode Bulb | Lee De Forest | 1906 |
| 21 | Atomic Structure | Neil Bohr & Rutherford | 1913 |
| 22 | Proton | Rutherford | 1919 |
| 23 | Raman Effect | C.V. Raman | 1928 |
| 24 | Neutron | James Chadwick | 1932 |
| 25 | Nuclear Reactor | Anrico Fermi | 1942 |
| 26 | Law of Electrolytic Dissociation | Faraday | – |
| 27 | Thermionic Emission | Edison | – |
