Fred Bortz
1944
Understanding Higgs bosons
Johannes Kepler and the three laws of planetary motion
The electron
The periodic table of elements and Dmitry Mendeleyev
The quark
Understanding the Large Hadron Collider
Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection
Laws of motion and Isaac Newton
The big bang theory
The laws of genetics and Gregor Mendel
The sun-centered universe and Nicolaus Copernicus
Understanding protons