Find out more about the greatest 19th Century British Physicists, including Ernest Rutherford, J. J. Thomson, James Chadwick, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and Henry Moseley.
Ernest Rutherford30 August 1871
Physicist, Chemist
J. J. Thomson18 December 1856
Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
James Chadwick20 October 1891
Discoverer of Neutron
Henry Moseley23 November 1887
Physicist
James Prescott Joule24 December 1818
Physicist
Arthur Eddington28 December 1882
Astronomer
John Tyndall02 August 1820
Physicist
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet13 August 1819
Mathematician
William Henry Bragg02 July 1862
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824
Mathematician, Physicist
Patrick Blackett18 November 1897
Physicist
John Cockcroft27 May 1897
Physicist
George Paget Thomson03 May 1892
Physicist
Francis William Aston01 September 1877
Chemist & Physicist
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson14 February 1869
Physicist
Edward Victor Appleton06 September 1892
Physicist
Charles Glover Barkla07 June 1877
Physicist
Lord Rayleigh12 November 1842
Discoverer of Argon
Owen Willans Richardson26 April 1879
Physicist
Sir William Lawrence Bragg31 March 1890
Nobel Laureate in Physics
James Clerk Maxwell13 June 1831
Scientist
Oliver Heaviside18 May 1850
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Telegraphy
Joseph Swan31 October 1828
Chemist, Physicist, Inventor
Charles Wheatstone06 February 1802
Cryptographer, Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer,
William Crookes17 June 1832
Chemist, Physicist, Psychic
George Biddell Airy27 July 1801
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
James Dewar20 September 1842
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor
John Ambrose Fleming29 November 1849
Inventor, Physicist, Engineer, University teacher
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell05 April 1886
Physicist, Politician, University teacher
Oliver Lodge12 June 1851
Physicist, Engineer
Osborne Reynolds23 August 1842
Physicist, Civil engineer, Engineer
William John Macquorn Rankine05 July 1820
Engineer, Physicist, Civil engineer, University
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Lewis Fry Richardson11 October 1881
Paramedic, Cartographer, Mathematician,
Charles Galton Darwin18 December 1887
Physicist, University teacher
G. I. Taylor07 March 1886
Physicist, Engineer, Mathematician, Meteorologist
Joseph Larmor11 July 1857
Physicist
John Henry Poynting09 September 1852
Physicist, University teacher
George Johnstone Stoney15 February 1826
Physicist
James Hopwood Jeans11 September 1877
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer