Marie Curie07 November 1867, French, Polish
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
Albert Einstein14 March 1879, German, American
Physicist
Nikola Tesla10 July 1856, Austrian, American
Inventor, Father of Radio
Pierre Curie15 May 1859, French
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Erwin Schrödinger12 August 1887, Austrian
Physicist
Niels Bohr07 October 1885, Danish
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist
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Mileva Marić19 December 1875, Serbian
Physicist
Ernest Rutherford30 August 1871, New Zealander, British
Physicist, Chemist
Max Planck23 April 1858, German
Physicist
Jagadish Chandra Bose30 November 1858, Indian
Physicist
Satyendra Nath Bose01 January 1894, Indian
J. J. Thomson18 December 1856, British
Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
Georges Lemaître17 July 1894, Belgian
Scientist & Priest
Max Born11 December 1882, German
Physicist
Lise Meitner07 November 1878, Austrian
Physicist
Robert H. Goddard05 October 1882, American
Physicist
Ludwig Boltzmann20 February 1844, Austrian
Physicist
Heinrich Hertz22 February 1857, German
Physicist
Henri Becquerel15 December 1852, French
Physicist, Discoverer of Radioactivity
Louis de Broglie15 August 1892, French
Physicist
James Chadwick20 October 1891, British
Discoverer of Neutron
Hendrik Lorentz18 July 1853, Dutch
Physicist
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768, French
Mathematician & Physicist
Arthur Eddington28 December 1882, British
Astronomer
Hermann von Helmholtz31 August 1821, German
Physicist and Physician
Ernst Mach18 February 1838, Austrian
Physicist
Henry Moseley23 November 1887, British
Physicist
Robert Andrews Millikan22 March 1868, American
Physicist
James Prescott Joule24 December 1818, British
Physicist
Philipp Lenard07 June 1862, German
Physicist
Albert A. Michelson19 December 1852, American
Physicist
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Gustav Kirchhoff12 March 1824, German
Physicist
Meghnad Saha06 October 1893, Indian
Physicist
Arnold Sommerfeld05 December 1868, German
Physicist
John Tyndall02 August 1820, Irish, British
Physicist
Gabriel Lippmann16 August 1845, French
Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Isidor Isaac Rabi29 July 1898, American
Physicist
Arthur Compton10 September 1892, American
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Annie Jump Cannon11 December 1863, American
Astronomer
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet13 August 1819, British
Mathematician
Max von Laue09 October 1879, German
Physicist
William Henry Bragg02 July 1862, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
James Franck26 August 1882, German
Physicist
George Paget Thomson03 May 1892, British
Physicist
Pyotr Kapitsa08 July 1894, Russian
Physicist
Leó Szilárd11 February 1898, American
Physicist
Léon Foucault18 September 1819, French
Physicist
Karl Ferdinand Braun06 June 1850, German
German Physicist & Inventor
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes21 September 1853, Dutch
Physicist
John Cockcroft27 May 1897, British
Physicist
Walther Nernst25 June 1864, German
Physicist and Chemist
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824, British
Mathematician, Physicist
Johannes Stark15 April 1874, German
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Igor Tamm08 July 1895, Russian
Physicist
Wilhelm Wien13 January 1864, German
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Otto Stern17 February 1888, German
Physicist
Jean Baptiste Perrin30 September 1870, French
Physicist
Pieter Zeeman25 May 1865, Dutch
Discovered the 'Zeeman Effect'
Gustav Ludwig Hertz22 July 1887, German
Physicists
Patrick Blackett18 November 1897, British
Physicist
Percy Williams Bridgman21 April 1882, American
Physicist
Lord Rayleigh12 November 1842, British
Discoverer of Argon
Frits Zernike16 July 1888, Dutch
Physicist
Francis William Aston01 September 1877, British
Chemist & Physicist
C.V. Raman07 November 1888, Indian
Physicist
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson14 February 1869, British
Physicist
Edward Victor Appleton06 September 1892, British
Physicist
Walther Bothe08 January 1891, German
Physicist
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883, American
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
Owen Willans Richardson26 April 1879, British
Physicist
Clinton Davisson22 October 1881, American
Physicist
Robert S. Mulliken07 June 1896, American
Chemist, Physicist
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899, American
Physicist, Mathematician
Charles Glover Barkla07 June 1877, British
Physicist
Johannes Rydberg08 November 1854, Swedish
Physicist
Sir William Lawrence Bragg31 March 1890, British
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Manne Siegbahn03 December 1886, Swedish
Physicist
Charles Édouard Guillaume15 February 1861, Swiss
Discoverer of Invar and Elinvar
William P. Murphy06 February 1892, American
Physician
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898, American
Scientist
James Maxwell13 June 1831, Scottish
Mathematician & Physicist
Wilhelm Weber24 October 1804, German
Physicst
Karl Herzfeld24 February 1892, Austrian
Physicist
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin09 October 1858, Serbian
Physicist
Walter Gerlach01 August 1889, German
Physicist
Sir William Rowan Hamilton04 August 1805, Irish
Physicist, Astronomer and Mathematician
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl09 November 1885, German
Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
Johannes van der Waals23 November 1837, Dutch
Theoretical Physicist
Wilhelm Rontgen27 March 1845, German
Winner of First Nobel Prize in Physics
C. V. Raman07 November 1888, Indian
Physicist, University teacher
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
James Clerk Maxwell13 June 1831, British, Scottish
Scientist
Paul Langevin23 January 1872, French
Physicist, Professor, Chemist, Philosopher of
Joseph Swan31 October 1828, British
Chemist, Physicist, Inventor