Physicist
93 famous people found
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Marie CURIE
French-Polish chemist and physicist
1867 - 1934 -
Isaac NEWTON
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1643 - 1727 -
Albert EINSTEIN
American theoretical physicist
1879 - 1955 -
André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
John NAPIER
Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1550 - 1617 -
Leonhard EULER
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
1707 - 1783 -
Jean BERNOULLI
Swiss mathematician
1667 - 1748 -
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 -
Emilie DU CHATELET
French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment
1706 - 1749 -
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