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
Hans Christian Ørsted14 August 1777, Danish
Physicist
Georg Ohm16 March 1789, German
Physicist & Mathematician
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
Andre Marie Ampere20 January 1775, French
Physicist and Mathematician
Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Physicist and Scientist
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert16 November 1717, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher And Musical
Count Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Charles Augustin De Coulomb14 June 1736, French
French physicist
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Politician, Journalist, Physician, Physicist,
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Physicist, Inventor, University teacher
Joseph-Louis Lagrange25 January 1736, French, Italian
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, Politician,
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
Luigi Galvani09 September 1737, Italian
Anatomist, Physicist, Physician, University
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Scientist
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb14 June 1736, French
Physicist
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
William Whewell24 May 1794, British
Economist, Physicist, Historian, Philosopher,
Ernst Chladni30 November 1756, German
Physicist, Astronomer
François Arago26 February 1786, Spanish, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Benjamin Thompson26 March 1753, American
Physicist, Scientist
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Joseph Black16 April 1728, French, British, Scottish
Chemist, Physicist, Scientist, University teacher
David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Joseph von Fraunhofer06 March 1787, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Chemist
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746, French
Mathematician, Politician, Physicist, University
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Jacques Charles12 November 1746, French
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
William Hyde Wollaston06 August 1766, British
Chemist, Physicist, Engineer, Metallurgist
Claude-Louis Navier10 February 1785, French
physicist, economist, mathematician, engineer of
Jan Ingenhousz08 December 1730, Dutch
Botanist, Physician, Physicist
Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Civil
Gabriel Cramer31 July 1704, Swiss
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille22 April 1797, French
Physician, Physicist, Mathematician
William Sturgeon22 May 1783, British
Physicist, Inventor
Thomas Johann Seebeck29 March 1770, German
physicist
Johann Wilhelm Ritter16 December 1776, German
Physicist, University teacher
Thomas Young13 June 1773, British
Physician
Sir David Brewster11 December 1781, Scottish
Felix Savart30 June 1791, French