Famous Physicists - Biography, Life, Interesting Facts

• Walter Gilbert

  Biochemist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Erwin Neher

  Biophysicist

  Germany

• Frederick Reines

  Physicist

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Albert Einstein

  Physicist

  Württemberg, Germany

• John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

  Physicist

  Connecticut, United States of America

• Michael Faraday

  Physicist

  London, United Kingdom

• Augustin-Jean Fresnel

  Physicist

  Normandy, France

• John Bardeen

  Educator

  Wisconsin, United States of America

• Abraham Pais

  Physicist

  Netherlands

• Hans Bethe

  Physicist

  Alsace, France

• Owen Chamberlain

  Physicist

  California, United States of America

• Galileo Galilei

  Astronomer

  Italy

• Steven Chu

  Physicist

  Missouri, United States of America

• Martin Lewis Perl

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Martinus J. G. Veltman

  Physicist

  Netherlands

• Blaise Pascal

  Mathematician

  France

• Allan McLeod Cormack

  Physicist

  Gauteng, South Africa

• Enrico Fermi

  Physicist

  Lazio, Italy

• Irving Langmuir

  Chemist

  New York, United States of America

• Isaac Newton

  Physicist

  Midlands, United Kingdom

• Donald A. Glaser

  Physicist

  Ohio, United States of America

• Stephen Hawking

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Lise Meitner

  Physicist

  Vienna, Austria

• Jean Baptiste Perrin

  Physicist

  Hauts-de-France, France

• James Cronin

  Physicist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Heinrich Hertz

  Physicist

  Germany

• Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Louis de Broglie

  Physicist

  Normandy, France

• John Cockcroft

  Physicist

  West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• Andre marie Ampere

  Mathematician

  Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

• Pierre Curie

  Physicist

  Île-de-France, France

• Robert Woodrow Wilson

  Astronomer

  Texas, United States of America

• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Chemist

  Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• Emilio Gino Segrè

  Physicist

  Lazio, Italy

• Hideki Yukawa

  Physicist

  Kanto, Japan

• Gerd Binnig

  Physicist

  Hesse, Germany

• Nikolay Basov

  Physicist

  Lipetsk-Oblast, Russia

• Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

  Biophysicist

  Tararua, New Zealand

• Rudolf Mossbauer

  Physicist

  Bavaria, Germany

• Walter Kohn

  Chemist

  Vienna, Austria

• Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

  Biophysicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Leon N Cooper

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Georg Ohm

  Scientist

  Bavaria, Germany

• Aaron Klug

  Biophysicist

  Vilnius, Lithuania

• Murray Gell-mann

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Burton Richter

  Scientist

  New York, United States of America

• George Gamow

  Scientist

  Ukraine, Russia

• Russell Alan Hulse

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• J. Georg Bednorz

  Physicist

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Cecil Frank Powell

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Cyril Domb

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Franklin Diaz

  Astronaut

  Central Valley, Costa Rica

• Richard Edward Taylor

  Physicist

  Alberta, Canada

• Georges Charpak

  Physicist

  Rivne Oblast, Ukraine

• Bertram Brockhouse

  Physicist

  Alberta, Canada

• John Stewart Bell

  Physicist

  Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

  Astrophysicist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov

  Physicist

  Vitebsk, Belarus

• Wilhelm Weber

  Physicist

  Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

• Daniel Chee Tsui

  Physicist

  Henan, China

• Melvin Schwartz

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Ernest Lawrence

  Physicist

  South Dakota, United States of America

• Frédéric Joliot-Curie

  Physicist

  France

• Anders Celsius

  Astronomer

  Sweden

• Clinton Davisson

  Physicist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Maurice Allais

  Physicist

  France

• James Maxwell

  Mathematician

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Nevill Francis Mott

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• James Prescott Joule

  Scientist

  Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

• Ludwig Boltzmann

  Physicist

  Vienna, Austria

• Edward Arthur Milne

  Astrophysicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Pyotr Kapitsa

  Physicist

  Saint Petersburg, Russia

• Pieter Zeeman

  Physicist

  Zeeland, Netherlands

• Manne Siegbahn

  Physicist

  Närke, Sweden

• Edward Victor Appleton

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Victor Francis Hess

  Physicist

  Styria, Austria

• Robert Andrews Millikan

  Physicist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Joseph Fourier

  Mathematician

  Yonne, France

• Karl Herzfeld

  Physicist

  Vienna, Austria

• Christian Doppler

  Mathematician

  Salzburg, Austria

• Ernst Mach

  Physicist

  South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

• Clifford Shull

  Physicist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Lev Landau

  Physicist

  Caucasus, Azerbaijan

• William Shockley

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Max Planck

  Scientist

  Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

• Carl Sagan

  Astrophysicist

  New York, United States of America

• Charles Hard Townes

  Physicist

  South Carolina, United States of America

• Aage Niels Bohr

  Physicist

  Hovedstaden, Denmark

• Charles Glover Barkla

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Samuel Chao Chung Ting

  Physicist

  Michigan, United States of America

• William Gilbert

  Physician

  England, United Kingdom

• Werner Heisenberg

  Physicist

  Bavaria, Germany

• Val Logsdon Fitch

  Physicist

  Nebraska, United States of America

• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov

  Physicist

  Voronezh Oblast, Russia

• Arthur Leonard Schawlow

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Paul Dirac

  Physicist

  United Kingdom

• Charles Édouard Guillaume

  Physicist

  Val-de-Travers, Switzerland

• Antony Hewish

  Astronomer

  England, United Kingdom

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals

  Physicist

  South Holland, Netherlands

• Max von Laue

  Physicist

  Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Herbert Kroemer

  Physicist

  Germany

• Henry Moseley

  Physicist

  Dorset, United Kingdom

• Heinrich Rohrer

  Scientist

  St. Gallen, Switzerland

• Chen Ning Yang

  Physicist

  Anhui, China

• Otto Stern

  Physicist

  Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

• Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Physicist

  Vojvodina, Serbia

• Ilya Prigogine

  Chemist

  Russia

• Nicolaas Bloembergen

  Physicist

  South Holland, Netherlands

• Arnold Sommerfeld

  Physicist

  Germany

• Andrei Sakharov

  Physicist

  Russia

• Hans Christian Ørsted

  Physicist

  Island of Langeland, Denmark

• Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

  Physicist

  County Sligo, Republic of Ireland

• George Paget Thomson

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Gabriel Lippmann

  Physicist

  Luxembourg

• Leonhard Euler

  Mathematician

  Switzerland

• Walther Bothe

  Physicist

  Brandenburg, Germany

• Philip Warren Anderson

  Physicist

  Indiana, United States of America

• Abdus Salam

  Physicist

  Punjab, Pakistan

• Walter Gerlach

  Physicist

  Rhineland Palatinate, Germany

• Wolfgang Paul

  Physicist

  Saxony, Germany

• Joseph Henry

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Edwin Mattison McMillan

  Physicist

  California, United States of America

• Frits Zernike

  Physicist

  North Holland, Netherlands

• Michio Kaku

  Physicist

  California, United States of America

• Richard Feynman

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• William Alfred Fowler

  Physicist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Kenneth Geddes Wilson

  Physicist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Philipp Lenard

  Physicist

  Slovakia

• Douglas D. Osheroff

  Physicist

  Washington, United States of America

• Julian Schwinger

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Arno Allan Penzias

  Physicist

  Bavaria, Germany

• Edward Mills Purcell

  Physicist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Max Delbrück

  Biophysicist

  Germany

• Meghnad Saha

  Astrophysicist

  Bangladesh

• Robert S. Mulliken

  Physicist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Kip Thorne

  Physicist

  Utah, United States of America

• William Daniel Phillips

  Physicist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Robert B. Laughlin

  Physicist

  California, United States of America

• Pierre Gilles de Gennes

  Physicist

  France

• Charles Greeley Abbot

  Astrophysicist

  New Hampshire, United States of America

• Johannes Stark

  physicist

  Bavaria, Germany

• Horst Ludwig Störmer

  Physicist

  Hesse, Germany

• John Tyndall

  Physicist

  Leinster, Republic of Ireland

• Karl Ferdinand Braun

  Inventor

  Hesse, Germany

• Sadi Carnot

  Physicist

  France

• Robert Sanderson Mulliken

  Physicist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Inge Lehmann

  Seismologist

  Denmark

• Walther Nernst

  Chemist

  Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

• Owen Willans Richardson

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Carl David Anderson

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Wolfgang Pauli

  Physicist

  Vienna, Austria

• Leon Foucault

  Physicist

  France

• Guglielmo Marconi

  Inventor

  Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy

• James Chadwick

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• J. J. Thomson

  Physicist

  Manchester, United Kingdom

• Joseph John Thomson

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• James Rainwater

  Physicist

  Idaho, United States of America

• Henry Way Kendall

  Physicist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Tsung-Dao Lee

  Physicist

  China

• Simon van der Meer

  Physicist

  South Holland, Netherlands

• Louis Eugène Félix Néel

  Physicist

  Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France

• Andrew Fielding Huxley

  Biophysicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Patrick Blackett

  Physicist

  London, United Kingdom

• Eugene Wigner

  Physicist

  Hungary

• Felix Bloch

  Physicist

  Zürich, Switzerland

• Aleksandr Prokhorov

  Physicist

  Queensland, Australia

• Ben Roy Mottelson

  Physicist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Robert Coleman Richardson

  Physicist

  United States of America

• Lord Kelvin

  Mathematician

  Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Gustav Kirchhoff

  Physicist

  Germany

• Erwin Schrödinger

  Physicist

  Vienna, Austria

• Marie Curie

  Physicist

  Poland

• Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Physicist

  Podkarpackie, Poland

• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Fritz Zernike

  Physicist

  North Holland, Netherlands

• Leon M. Lederman

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Willis Eugene Lamb Jr.

  Physicist

  California, united states of America

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

  Physicist

  Primorsky Krai, Russia

• Gerard ’t Hooft

  Physicist

  North Holland, Netherlands

• Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

  Physicist

  United States of America

• William Henry Bragg

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Maria Goeppert Mayer

  Physicist

  Silesian, Poland

• Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Physicist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Sir Bernard Katz

  Biophysicist

  Saxony, Germany

• Sir William Rowan Hamilton

  Mathematician

  Leinster, Republic of Ireland

• Walter Houser Brattain

  Physicist

  Fujian, China

• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

  Physicist

  Constantine, Algeria

• Shinichiro Tomonaga

  Physicist

  Tokyo, Japan

• Carlo Rubbia

  Physicist

  Gorizia, Italy

• John Napier

  Mathematician

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Percy Williams Bridgman

  Physicist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• K. Alex Müller

  Physicist

  Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

• Alfred Kastler

  Physicist

  Alsace, France

• Hans Georg Dehmelt

  Physicist

  Saxony, Germany

• Amedeo Avogadro

  Scientist

  Turin, Italy

• Mark Oliphant

  Physicist

  South Australia, Australia

• Evangelista Torricelli

  Physicist

  Italy

• Albert Abraham Michelson

  Physicist

  Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

• Brian Greene

  Scientist

  New York, United States of America

• Francis William Aston

  Chemist

  West Midlands, United Kingdom

• Henri Becquerel

  Academic

  Île-de-France, France

• Max Born

  Educator

  Poland

• Ernest Rutherford

  Physicist

  South Island, New Zealand

• Brian Josephson

  Physicist

  Wales, United Kingdom

• Sally Ride

  Astronaut

  California, United States of America

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Astrophysicist

  New York, United States of America

• Satyendra Nath Bose

  Physicist

  West Bengal, India

• George Carruthers

  Physicist

  Ohio, united states of America

• Steven Weinberg

  Academic

  New York, United States of America

• Hermann Oberth

  Physicist

  Transylvania, Romania

• Jan Ingenhousz

  Biologist

  North Brabant, Netherlands

• Gustav Fechner

  Philosopher

  Lubusz, Poland

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• John Hall

  Physicist

  Colorado, United States of America

• William Henry Fox Talbot

  Astronomer

  England, United Kingdom

• Joseph Rotblat

  Physicist

  Masovia, Poland

• Chien-shiung Wu

  Physicist

  Jiangsu, China

• William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs

  Academic

  Ireland, United Kingdom

• Maurice Wilkins

  Academic

  North Island, New Zealand

• Tsung Dao Lee

  Physicist

  Shanghai, China

• Robert Hooke

  Academic

  Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

• Leo Szilard

  Physicist

  Budapest, Hungary

• Jacques Alexandre César Charles

  Academic

  Centre-Val de Loire, France

• Gordon Gould

  Physicist

  New York, United States Of America

• Robert Goddard

  Engineer

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

  Physicist

  Midlothian, United Kingdom

• Jean Le Rond d’Alembert

  Mathematician

  Île-de-France, France

• Johannes Rydberg

  Physicist

  Halland, Sweden

• Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen

  Physicist

  Germany

• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

  Physicist

  Groningen, Netherlands

• Luis Walter Alvarez

  Physicist

  California, united states of America

• Theodore H. Maiman

  Physicist

  California, United States of America

• Howard H. Aiken

  Physicist

  New Jersey, United States of America