Physics
Discover the list of renowned scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of Physics. From Albert Einstein to Marie Curie, explore the lives and achievements of these influential figures.
Henry Moseley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist
Alexander Vilenkin
USA
USAAmerican physicist and cosmologist.
James Dewar
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish physicist and chemist.
Ayvar Giaever
USA
USAAmerican physicist
Emile Duclaux
France
FranceFrench physicist, chemist and biologist
Gak-Arsen Arsonval
France
FranceFrench physiologist and physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Klinton Davisson
USA
USAPhysicist
Horace Saussure
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss naturalist, one of the founders of descriptive geology. The first to study the geological structure of the Alps. Works on botany, meteorology, glacier movement, etc.
Arpad Elo
USA
USACreator of the international system for calculating individual ratings of chess players.
Stephen Wolfram
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physicist, mathematician, programmer, writer
Pierre Duhem
France
FranceFrench physicist, mathematician, philosopher and historian of science
Ernest Lourens
USA
USAPhysicist
Armand Fizea
France
FranceFrench physicist.
John Tyndall
Great Britain
Great BritainThe English Physicist Who Explained Why the Sky Is Blue
Eliyahu Goldratt
Israel
IsraelIsraeli physicist, manager
Marie Sklodowska-Curie
France
FranceFrench experimental scientist of Polish origin (physicist, chemist), teacher
Robert Kirchhoff
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences
Viktor Ambartsumian
Russia
RussiaRussian astrophysicist, academician (1943) and president (1947-93) of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953), twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1968, 1978).
Karl Vaytzekker
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, philosopher and politician.
Igor Klebanov
USA
USAPhysicist
John David Jackson
Great Britain
Great BritainCanadian-American physicist
Kurt Lehovec
Czech, later American, physicist and inventor, semiconductor researcher.
George Stephenson
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish inventor, creator of one of the first steam locomotives and builder of the first public railway, Darlingon-Stockton.
Mikhail Elyashevich
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian physicist
Giuseppe Zamboni
Italy
ItalyItalian priest and physicist
Jean Foucault
France
FranceFrench physicist, creator of the gyroscope and Foucault pendulum
William Calvin
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish physicist
William Grove
Great Britain
Great BritainWelsh judge and physicist
Max Born
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist
Viktor Gorshkov
Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Patrick Blackett
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist
Guido Beck
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist
Steven Weinberg
USA
USAAmerican physicist, Nobel laureate
Shafik Chokin
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanThe largest energy scientist in Kazakhstan.
Gustav Karsten
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist
Rudolph Clausius
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics and the molecular-kinetic theory of heat, foreign corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1878).
Uras Pozhela
Lithuania
LithuaniaSoviet and Lithuanian physicist.
Gyozo Zemplen
Hungary
HungaryHungarian physicist
Joseph Henry
USA
USAAmerican physicist
Artur Shavlov
USA
USAPhysicist
John Bertram Adams
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist
Abdul Qadeer Kan
India
IndiaPakistani nuclear scientist, founder and director of the Pakistani nuclear program.
Emanuel Caner
Soviet theoretical physicist
Rudolf Messbauer
Germany
GermanyPhysicist
Petr Lebedev
Russia
RussiaThe first Russian world-class physicist
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
France
FranceIndian physicist
Pyotr Kapitsa
Physicist
Pieter Zeeman
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch physicist
Brayan Jozefson
Great Britain
Great BritainPhysicist
John Cockcroft
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics