His Top Ten People and Ideas:
Thales — natural world; explanation
Aristarchus– size of and distance to moon; careful observation and mathematics; sun bigger than earth
Archimedes — discoverer of mathematical physics; Archimedes’ law and levers
Galileo — pendulum (period depends only on length); math applied to motion; law of free fall
Newton — universal gravitation; fully brought out mathematical physics
Newton — optics/mathematics of colors; experimental physics
Volta/Galvani — battery
Faraday — electro-magnetic induction
Maxwell — relating electro-magnetism and light
Rutherford — structure of atom
You can listen on to the lecture on the VanDamme Academy Website.