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Famous Physicists
List of physicists
Many famous
physicists of the
20th and
21st century are found on the list of recipients of the
Nobel Prize in physics.
Famous early physicists:
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Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 BC - 360 BC)
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Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 BC - 212 BC)
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Lucretius - Rome (98?-55 BC)
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William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
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Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
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Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
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René Descartes - France (1596-1650)
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Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
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Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
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Robert Boyle - England (1627-1691)
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Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)
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Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
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Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
Famous physicists of the
18th century:
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Poland, England, Netherlands(1686-1736)
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Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700-1782)
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Benjamin Franklin, USA (1706-1790)
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Leonard Euler, (1707-1783)
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Rudjer Josip Boscovich - Dubrovnik (1711-1787)
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert - France (1717-1783)
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Henry Cavendish - Britain (1731-1810)
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Charles Augustin de Coulomb, (1736-1806)
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (1736-1813)
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James Watt Scotland (1736-1819)
Famous physicists of the
19th century:
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Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
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Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
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John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
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Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
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Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)
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Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
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Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
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Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
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Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
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Hans Christian Řrsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
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David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
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William Prout - England (1785-1850)
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Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
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Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
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Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
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Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
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Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
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Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
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Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
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William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
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Anders Jonas Ĺngström, - Sweden(1814-1874)
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James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
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Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
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Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
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George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
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Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
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Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
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Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
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William Thomson - (Lord Kelvin) England (1824-1907)
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Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
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James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
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Joef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
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Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
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Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
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Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
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Marie Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
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James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
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Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
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Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
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Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
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Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
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George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
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John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
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Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
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Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-1919)
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Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
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Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
Famous physicists of the
20th century:
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Hannes Alfven - Sweden (1908-1995)
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Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
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John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
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Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
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Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
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Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
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Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
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Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
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Thomas Townsend Brown - American (1905 - 1985)
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Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
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Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
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Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
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Paul Ehrenfest - Austria (1880-1933)
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Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
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Enrico Fermi - Italy (1901-1954)
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Richard Feynman - USA (1918-1988)
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1898-1974)
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Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
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Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
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Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
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Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
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Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
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Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
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Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
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John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
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Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
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Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
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John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - Germany (1845-1923)
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Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand, England (1871-1937)
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
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Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
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Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
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Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary, USA (1856-1943)
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Steven Weinberg - USA (1933- )
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Arthur Wightman - USA
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Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary, USA (1902-1993)
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908-2002)
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