List Of Physicists

A

• Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
• Hannes Alfvn - Sweden (1908-1995)
• Luis Alvarez - USA (1911 - 1988)
• Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
• Anders Jonas ngstrm, - Sweden (1814-1874)
• Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 - 212 BC)
• Aristarchus of Samos (310 - circa 230 BC)
• Aristotle - Athens, Greece (384-322 BC)
• Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)

B

• Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
• John Bardeen - USA (1908-1991)
• Zoltn Lajos Bay - Hungary (1900-1992)
• John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
• Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
• Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700 – 1782)
• Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
• Raymond T. Birge - USA (1887 - 1980)
• Vilhelm Bjerknes - Norway (1862 - 1951)
• Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
• Ren-Prosper Blondlot - France (1849-1930)
• Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
• Aage Niels Bohr - Denmark (1922- )
• Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
• Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711 – 1787)
• Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
• Robert Boyle - Ireland, England (1627-1691)
• David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
• Thomas Townsend Brown - USA (1905 - 1985)

C

• Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
• Nicolas Lonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
• Henry Cavendish — Britain (1731 – 1810)
• Owen Chamberlain - USA (1920-)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
• Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
• Hans Christian rsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
• Giovanni Ciccotti - Italy (1943- )
• Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
• Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
• Charles Augustin de Coulomb — (1736 – 1806)
• Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)

D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717 – 1783)
• John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
• Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
• Paul Davies - Australia (1946- )
• Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 - 360 BC)
• Ren Descartes - France (1596-1650)
• Henri-Alexandre Deslandres - France (1853-1948)
• James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
• Revaz Dogonadze - Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931-1985)
• Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
• Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )

E

• William Eccles - Britain, (1875-1966)
• Paul Ehrenfest - Austria, (1880-1933)
• Felix Ehrenhaft - Austria, USA (1879-1952)
• Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
• V. Walfrid Ekman - Sweden, (1874-1954)
• Roland Etvs - Hungary (1848-1919)
• Ernest Esclangon - France, (1876-1954)
• Louis Essen - England, (1908-1997)
• Leonard Euler — (1707 – 1783)
• James Alfred Ewing - Scotland (1855-1935)

F

• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Poland, England, Netherlands (1686 – 1736)
• Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
• Enrico Fermi - Italy, (1901-1954)
• Richard Feynman - USA, (1918-1988)
• George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
• Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898-1974)
• James David Forbes - Scotland (1809-1868)
• Lon Focault - France (1819-1868)
• Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
• Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706 – 1790)
• Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
• B. Roy Frieden -- USA, ()

G

• Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
• Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
• Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
• William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
• Martin Gutzwiller - Switzerland (1925- )

H

• Rudolf Haag - Germany (1922- )
• Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
• William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
• Peter Andreas Hansen - Denmark (1795 - 1874)
• W.W. Hansen - USA (1909-1949)
• Douglas Hartree - England (1897-1958)
• Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
• Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
• Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
• Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
• John Herapath - England (1790-1868)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
• George William Hill - USA (1838 - 1914)
• Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
• Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)

J

• Ali Javan - Iran (1928-)
• Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
• Song Jin-joo - Korea/USA
• Brian David Josephson - Britain (1940- )
• James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)

K

• Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
• John Kerr - Britain (1824-1907)
• Bernard Bruno Kinsey - Britain, USA (1910-1995)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
• August Krnig - Germany (1822-1879)

L

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736 – 1813)
• Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
• Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
• Ernest Lawrence - USA (1901-1958)
• Georges-Louis LeSage — Switzerland (1724 – 1803)
• John Leslie - Scotland (1766-1832)
• Karl L. Littrow - Austria (1811 - 1877)
• Maurice Loewy - Austria/France (1833 - 1907)
• Johann Loschmidt - Germany (1821-1895)
• Lucretius - Rome (98? - 55 BC)

M

• Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
• Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775 – 1812)
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall - US (1841-1924)
• William Markowitz - USA (1907-1998)
• James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
• Ronald E. McNair - USA (1950-1986)
• Macedonio Melloni - Italy (1798–1854)
• Albert Abraham Michelson - USA (1852-1931)
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
• Robert Andrews Millikan - USA (1868- 1953)
• Amde Mouchez - Spain, France (1821-1892)
• Richard A. Muller - USA

N

• John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
• Simon Newcomb - USA (1835 - 1909)
• Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
• Leopoldo Nobili - Italy (1784-1835)

O

• Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
• Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
• Nicolas Oresme - France (1325-1382)
• Egon Orowan - Hungary/ USA (1901-1989)
• Yuri Orlov - Soviet Union, USA (1924- )

P

• Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
• G. B. Pegram - USA (1876-1958)
• Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
• Joseph Plateau - Belgium (1801 - 1883)
• John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
• Henri Poincar, (1854-1912)
• Heraclides Ponticus - Greece (387 - 312 BC)
• John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
• William Prout - England (1785-1850)

R

• Hubert Reeves - Canada (1932- )
• Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
• Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen - Germany (1845-1923)
• Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby - Sweden, USA (1898-1957)
• David Ruelle - Belgium, France (1935- )
• Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand, England (1871-1937)
• Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-[1919)

S

• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
• Oscar Sala - Brazil (1922-)
• Jack Sarfatti, (1939- )
• Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
• Erwin Schrdinger, (1887-1961)
• Emilio G. Segr - USA/Italy (1905-1989)
• Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
• Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
• Karl August von Steinheil - Germany, (1801-1870)
• George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
• Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)

T

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
• Edward Teller - Austria-Hungary/USA (1908-2003)
• Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary/USA (1856-1943)
• Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - Ireland (1824-1907)
• Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
• Charles Townes - USA (1915-)
• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763 – 1822)

U

• Zurab Urushadze - Georgia (1930-)

V

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals - Netherlands (1837-1923)
• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746 – 1822)
• Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)

W

• John James Waterston - Scotland (1811–1883)
• James Watt - Scotland (1736–1819)
• Gleb Wataghin - Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896-1986)
• Wilhelm Weber, (1804–1891)
• Steven Weinberg - USA (1933– )
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908–2002)
• Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
• Robert R. Wilson - USA (1914–2000)
• Edward Witten - USA (1951– )
• Robert W. Wood - USA (1868–1955)
• Arthur Wightman - USA

Y

• Thomas Young - England (1773–1829)
• Hideki Yukawa - Japan (1907–1981)

See also

• List of theoretical physicists
• List of mathematicians
• Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives

<< Previous Word Browser Next >>
principle of least astonishment purgatory physiology pluto pi postmodernism photography pop postmodern philosophy postmodern music protocol	pump progressive pressure pound force per square inch polygon player character parish procopius property police pdp 10	pdp 20 pdp primary mirror platonism protein physical chemistry perimeter phase (matter) physical science pentose propane	pan precambrian plasma polymerase chain reaction polymerase pacific scandal primer purine pyrimidine play by mail game philip k. dick memorial award