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57 famous people found
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Marie CURIE
French-Polish chemist and physicist
1867 - 1934 -
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
1879 - 1955 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
Antoine BECQUEREL
French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena
1788 - 1878 -
Georges LEMAITRE
Belgian Catholic Priest, astronomer and professor of physics
1894 - 1966 -
Frédéric JOLIOT-CURIE
French physicist
1900 - 1958 -
Auguste BRAVAIS
French physicist
1811 - 1863 -
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics
1871 - 1937 -
Louis de BROGLIE
French physicist and a Nobel laureate
1892 - 1987 -
Pierre CURIE
French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate
1859 - 1906 -
Gaston PLANTÉ
French physicist who invented the lead–acid battery
1834 - 1889 -
Harvey FLETCHER
American physicist, known as the "father of stereophonic sound"
1884 - 1981 -
Georges CLAUDE
French engineer and inventor
1870 - 1960 -
Louis COURTOIS
Belgian physicist
1785 - 1859 -
Anders Jonas ÅNGSTRöM
Swedish physicist
1814 - 1874 -
Pierre AUGER
French physicist
1899 - 1993 -
Elie CARTAN
French mathematician
1869 - 1951 -
Robert Andrews MILLIKAN
American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923
1868 - 1953 -
Robert H. GODDARD
American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket
1882 - 1945 -
Max PLANCK
German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory
1858 - 1947