Physicists by Discovery

Can you guess these physicists by a theory, formula or experiment they developed?

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Hint	Answer
Theory of relativity	Albert Einstein
Set of 4 equations describing Electromagnetism	James Clerk Maxwell
Discovery of moons of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei
Gravity as force between masses	Isaac Newton
Experimental discovery of Electromagnetic Waves	Heinrich Hertz
HΨ = EΨ	Erwin Schrödinger
Uncertainty Principle	Werner Heisenberg
Planetary orbits are elliptical	Johannes Kepler
Entropy is proportional to the number of possible Microstates (S = k*logW)	Ludwig Boltzmann
Law of Induction between Magnetism and Electricism	Michael Faraday

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Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics	Richard Feynman
Proposal of the Neutrino	Wolfgang Pauli
Discovery of the Energy Quanta (h)	Max Planck
Every differentiable symmetry has a corresponding conservation law	Emmy Noether
Proposal of Antimatter	Paul Dirac
First solution to the Einstein-Equation proposing the existence of black holes	Karl Schwarzschild
Discovery of the atom core	Ernest Rutherford
First quantum mechanical atomic model	Niels Bohr
Matter waves	Louis de Broglie
Force between charged particles (F ~ q1*q2/r^2)	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb