Physicist
122 famous people found
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Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics
1871 - 1937 -
Sally RIDE
American astronaut and physicist
1951 - 2012 -
François Marie RAOULT
French chemist
1830 - 1901 -
Nevill MOTT
English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977
1905 - 1996 -
Hubert CURIEN
French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN, and the first chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA)
1924 - 2005 -
Édouard BRANLY
French inventor, physicist and professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris
1844 - 1940 -
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 -
Abraham BREGUET
French horologist
1747 - 1823 -
Maurice ALLAIS
French physicist and economist
1911 - 2010 -
Georges CLAUDE
French engineer and inventor
1870 - 1960 -
Louis COURTOIS
Belgian physicist
1785 - 1859 -
Jacques FRIEDEL
French physicist and material scientist
1921 - 2014 -
Anders Jonas ÅNGSTRöM
Swedish physicist
1814 - 1874 -
Joseph FOURIER
French mathematician and physicist
1768 - 1830 -
Denis POISSON
French mathematician, geometer, and physicist
1781 - 1840 -
Pierre AUGER
French physicist
1899 - 1993 -
Louis CARTAN
French physicist
1909 - 1943