Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Physicists, including Michael Faraday, Leonhard Euler, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hans Christian Ørsted and Alessandro Volta.
Michael Faraday22 September 1791, British
Physicist & Chemist
Leonhard Euler15 April 1707, Swiss, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Daniel Bernoulli08 February 1700, Swiss
Mathematician
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768, French
Mathematician & Physicist
Henry Cavendish10 October 1731, British
Chemist
Amedeo Avogadro09 August 1776, Italian
Chemist and Physicist
Georg Ohm16 March 1789, German
Physicist & Mathematician
Hans Christian Ørsted14 August 1777, Danish
Physicist
Anders Celsius27 November 1701, Swedish
Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac06 December 1778, French
Chemist and Physicist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel10 May 1788, French
Physicist
Johann Heinrich Lambert26 August 1728, Swiss, German, French
Mathematician, Physicist and Astronomer
Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Physicist and Scientist
Andre Marie Ampere20 January 1775, French
Physicist and Mathematician
Charles Augustin De Coulomb14 June 1736, French
French physicist
Count Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert16 November 1717, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher And Musical
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Physicist, Inventor, University teacher
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
Luigi Galvani09 September 1737, Italian
Anatomist, Physicist, Physician, University
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb14 June 1736, French
Physicist
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician
Jacques Charles12 November 1746, French
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
William Whewell24 May 1794, British
Economist, Physicist, Historian, Philosopher,
François Arago26 February 1786, Spanish, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Ernst Chladni30 November 1756, German
Physicist, Astronomer
Roger Joseph Boscovich18 May 1711, Croatian, Italian
Physicist
Benjamin Thompson26 March 1753, American
Physicist, Scientist
Joseph Black16 April 1728, French, British, Scottish
Chemist, Physicist, Scientist, University teacher
David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
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Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Joseph von Fraunhofer06 March 1787, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Chemist
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746, French
Mathematician, Politician, Physicist, University
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Friedrich Bessel22 July 1784, German
Astronomer
Claude-Louis Navier10 February 1785, French
physicist, economist, mathematician, engineer of
Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Civil
William Hyde Wollaston06 August 1766, British
Chemist, Physicist, Engineer, Metallurgist
Pierre Louis Maupertuis28 September 1698, French
Mathematician
Jan Ingenhousz08 December 1730, Dutch
Botanist, Physician, Physicist
Guillaume Amontons31 August 1663, French
Physicist
Gabriel Cramer31 July 1704, Swiss
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher
William Sturgeon22 May 1783, British
Physicist, Inventor
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille22 April 1797, French
Physician, Physicist, Mathematician
Jacob Perkins09 July 1766, American
Inventor
Thomas Johann Seebeck29 March 1770, German
physicist
Horace Bénédict de Saussure17 February 1740, Swiss
Geologist
Johann Wilhelm Ritter16 December 1776, German
Physicist, University teacher
Étienne-Louis Malus23 July 1775, French
Physicist
Ewald Georg von Kleist10 June 1700, Polish
Jurist
Pieter van Musschenbroek14 March 1692, Dutch
Scientist
John Frederic Daniell12 March 1790, British
Chemist
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier22 February 1785, French
Physicist
Firmin Abauzit11 November 1679, French
Scholar
Edward Sabine14 October 1788, Irish
Astronomer
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand25 May 1757, French
Chemist
Joseph Jackson Lister11 January 1786, British
Physicist
George Hadley12 February 1685, British
Lawyer
Eva Ekeblad10 July 1724, Swedish
Scientist
Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet10 April 1766, Scottish
Mathematician
Pierre Louis Dulong12 February 1785, French
Physicist
Johann Andreas Segner09 October 1704, Hungarian
Scientist
George Green14 July 1793, British
Mathematician
John Canton31 July 1718, British
Physicist
Thomas Young13 June 1773, British
Physician
Johann Daniel Titius02 January 1729, German, Polish
Astronomer
Gowin Knight10 September 1713, British
Scientist
Christopher Hansteen26 September 1784, Norwegian
Astronomer
Jean de Hautefeuille20 March 1647, French
Physicist
Felix Savart30 June 1791, French