1. Find equivalents:

2. False or true? 

1. Isaac Newton laid the foundations of modern physics.

2. His book principia Physics is one of the most important works in the history of science.

3. He discovered the law of gravity and developed five laws of motion.

4. His research in splitting the white light into the colors of the spectrum led him to design a reflecting telescope.

5. James Clerk Maxwell’s best-known work established the difference between electromagnetism and light.

6. His research helped the German physicist Hertz to build the first radio-wave transmitter.

7. During his career he produced new theories on many scientific problems: the property of liquids, the nature of the planet Saturn’s rings and how humans perceive light and others.

8. His theories received much public recognition because of the simplicity of their explanation.

9. Max Planck proposed that light is neither purely a wave nor purely a particle, but is a combination of both.

10. He suggested that the energy in radiation was not continuous but was divided into tiny particles, or quanta.

11. In 1900 he produced a formula to describe the size of a quanta of energy.

12. Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.