Albert Einstein14 March 1879, German, American
Physicist
Stephen Hawking08 January 1942, British
Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist
Nikola Tesla10 July 1856, Austrian, American
Inventor, Father of Radio
Isaac Newton04 January 1643, British
Mathematician
Galileo Galilei15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer
Richard Feynman11 May 1918, American
Physicist
Carl Sagan09 November 1934, American
Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Writer
J. Robert Oppenheimer22 April 1904, American
Avicenna0980 AD
Persian Plymath
Archimedes0287 BC, Greek
Mathematician, Engineer, Inventor, Physicist,
Erwin Schrödinger12 August 1887, Austrian
Physicist
Werner Heisenberg05 December 1901, German
Physicist
Michael Faraday22 September 1791, British
Physicist & Chemist
Leonhard Euler15 April 1707, Swiss, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
Niels Bohr07 October 1885, Danish
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist
Paul Dirac08 August 1902, British
Physicist
Ernest Rutherford30 August 1871, New Zealander, British
Physicist, Chemist
Max Planck23 April 1858, German
Physicist
Enrico Fermi29 September 1901, Italian, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Pierre Curie15 May 1859, French
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Robert Hooke28 July 1635, British
Philosopher
Jagadish Chandra Bose30 November 1858, Indian
Physicist
Klaus Fuchs29 December 1911, German
Theoretical Physicist and Atomic Spy
Edward Teller15 January 1908, American
J. J. Thomson18 December 1856, British
Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
Vikram Sarabhai12 August 1919, Indian
Scientist
Abdus Salam29 January 1926, Pakistani
Theoretical Physicist
Georges Lemaître17 July 1894, Belgian
Scientist & Priest
Louis Slotin01 December 1910, Canadian
Physicist
Vannevar Bush11 March 1890, American
Engineer
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Kip Thorne01 June 1940, American
Physicist
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar19 October 1910, Indian
Satyendra Nath Bose01 January 1894, Indian
Robert Boyle25 January 1627, Irish, British
Founder of Modern Chemistry, Boyle's Law
William Shockley13 February 1910, American
Physicist
Robert H. Goddard05 October 1882, American
Physicist
Thomas Kuhn18 July 1922, American
Physicist
Max Born11 December 1882, German
Physicist
John Bardeen23 May 1908, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Ludwig Boltzmann20 February 1844, Austrian
Physicist
Andrei Sakharov21 May 1921, Russian
The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’
Heinrich Hertz22 February 1857, German
Physicist
Philip Warren Anderson13 December 1923, American
Physicist
Wolfgang Pauli25 April 1900, Austrian
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768, French
Mathematician & Physicist
Daniel Bernoulli08 February 1700, Swiss
Mathematician
Lev Landau22 January 1908, Russian
Physicist
Louis de Broglie15 August 1892, French
Physicist
David Bohm20 December 1917, American
Scientist
Murray Gell-Mann15 September 1929, American
Physicist
John Archibald Wheeler09 July 1911, American
Physicist
Steven Chu28 February 1948, American
Former United States Secretary of Energy
Henri Becquerel15 December 1852, French
Physicist, Discoverer of Radioactivity
Henry Cavendish10 October 1731, British
Chemist
Arthur Eddington28 December 1882, British
Astronomer
Steven Weinberg03 May 1933, American
Hermann von Helmholtz31 August 1821, German
Physicist and Physician
James Chadwick20 October 1891, British
Discoverer of Neutron
Hans Bethe02 July 1906, American
Physicist
Hendrik Lorentz18 July 1853, Dutch
Physicist
Eugene Wigner17 November 1902, American
Physicist & Mathematician
Georg Ohm16 March 1789, German
Physicist & Mathematician
Hans Christian Ørsted14 August 1777, Danish
Physicist
Amedeo Avogadro09 August 1776, Italian
Chemist and Physicist
James Prescott Joule24 December 1818, British
Physicist
Ernst Mach18 February 1838, Austrian
Physicist
Philipp Lenard07 June 1862, German
Physicist
Luis Walter Alvarez13 June 1911, American
Physicist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie19 March 1900, French
Physicist
Gustav Kirchhoff12 March 1824, German
Physicist
Anders Celsius27 November 1701, Swedish
Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician
Henry Moseley23 November 1887, British
Physicist
Evangelista Torricelli15 October 1608, Italian
Physicist
Julian Schwinger12 February 1918, American
Physicist
George Gamow04 March 1904, Russian
Physicist
Arnold Sommerfeld05 December 1868, German
Physicist
Meghnad Saha06 October 1893, Indian
Physicist
Robert Andrews Millikan22 March 1868, American
Physicist
Albert A. Michelson19 December 1852, American
Physicist
Tsung-Dao Lee24 November 1926, Chinese, American
Physicist
Walter Houser Brattain10 February 1902, American
Physicist
John Stewart Bell28 June 1928, Northern Irish
Physicist
John Tyndall02 August 1820, Irish, British
Physicist
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac06 December 1778, French
Chemist and Physicist
Ernest Lawrence08 August 1901, American
Physicist
Arthur Compton10 September 1892, American
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Augustin-Jean Fresnel10 May 1788, French
Physicist
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet13 August 1819, British
Mathematician
Isidor Isaac Rabi29 July 1898, American
Physicist
Franklin Chang Díaz05 April 1950, Chinese, Costa Rican, American
Former NASA Astronaut
Max von Laue09 October 1879, German
Physicist
Dennis Gabor05 June 1900, Hungarian
Father of Holography
William Henry Bragg02 July 1862, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics