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BECQUEREL ANTOINE HENRI (1852-1908).
Antoine Becquerel was a French physicist and Noble laureate who discovered radioactivity in uranium. He also conducted important research on phosphorescence, spectrum analysis and absorption of light... |  |
 | AMPERE, ANDRE MARIE ( 1775-1836 )
Andre Marie Ampere was a French mathematician and physicist, who was the first scientist to differentiate the rate of passage of current from the driving force behind it. The unit for measurement of ... |
ANGSTROM, ANDERS JONAS (1814-1874)
Anders Jonas Angstrom was a great Swedish physicist who is best known for his work on Spectroscopy and heat conduction. In 1862, he announced the discovery of hydrogen in the atmosphere of the sun a... |  |
 | ARCHIMEDES (Approx. 287 BC – 212 BC)
Archimedes, Greek scientist of ancient times, was one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists who ever lived and his equal did not arise until Newton, two thousand years later. He is especiall... |
BOHR, NIELS HENRIK DAVID. (1885-1962)
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish scientist whose contribution to nuclear physics, particularly the Atomic theory, won him the Nobel Prize for physics in 1922. Bohr’s atomic model was based in par... |  |
 | BRAHE, TYCHO (1546 – 1601)
Tycho Brahe, a Danish Scientist, was possibly the last of the greatest (along with Hipparchus) of the naked eye astronomers. It was his observations of an exploding star that led to the use of the n... |
 | CARNOT (NICOLAS LEONARD ) SADI (1796 –1832)
Carnot Sadi was born in the year 1796 at Paris and was a theoretical physicist. He is well known for his studies of an idealized heat engine. His scientific work was highly original, and the single p... |
CELSIUS, ANDERS –(1701-1744)
Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer but his greatest achievement had nothing to do with astronomy. He devised the temperature scale by dividing the temperature difference between boiling point an... |  |
 | CHADWICK, SIR JAMES (1891 - 1974)
James Chadwick, noted English physicist and Nobel Laureate, is widely known for his discovery of the ‘neutron’ (1932), which is by far the most useful particle for initiating nuclear reactions. It al... |
COULOMB CHARLES AUGUSTIN DE (1736 – 1806)
Charles Augustin de Coulomb was born in Angouleme, France, in the year 1736. He was a French physicist who discovered the inverse square law of attraction and repulsion between electric charges. He a... |  |
 | COPERNICUS NICOLAUS (1473-1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, shook the scientific foundation of Renaissance Europe by postulating that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun, which is stationary. This “Helioc... |
DEMOCRITUS (460 BC – 370 BC)
Democritus, ancient Greek philosopher, is best known for his atomic theory of the universe, which was startlingly modern and farsighted, considering the antiquity of his time. His theory that all th... |  |
 | ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879 – 1955)
Albert Einstein, German born American physicist, was probably the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. He revolutionised and shaped the scientific thinking of the modern world through his... |
FERMI ENRICO (1901-1954)
Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, was one of the most respected scientists of the 20th century and left a lasting impact in the field of atomic energy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for phys... |  |
 | GALILEO (1564 –1642)
Galileo Galelei, Italian scientist and epoch making physicist- astronomer, revolutionised science through his discoveries of physical laws and advancement of the Copernican theory of the universe. Ga... |
EDMOND HALLEY (1656 - 1742)
Edmund Halley was born in London on November 8, 1656. He was an English astronomer who lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and made significant contribution to the study of comets. He ... |  |
HERTZ, HEINRICH RUDOLF (1857 – 1894)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born on 22 February 1857 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a German scientist who revolutionized the communication system in the world. He opened the way for the development of ra... |  |
 | JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE (1818-1889)
James Prescott Joule was born in Salford, England in 1818. As a physicist, he shared in discovering the law of the conservation of energy. Two German physicists, Hermann von Helmholtz and Julius von ... |
LORD KELVIN (1824-1907)
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), a Scottish physicist and mathematician calculated that molecular motion stops at – 273 degree Celsius and called this temperature absolute zero. He was a prodigy in mat... |  |
 | KEPLER JOHANNES (1571-1630)
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician, was, along with Galileo, instrumental in establishing the Copernican System of the Universe, which broke the centuries old belief that the earth ... |
ERNST MACH (1838-1916)
Ernst Mach was born in Turas, Moravia (now in the Czechoslovak Republic) on 18th February 1838. Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who formulated important principles of mechanics, wave... |  |
 | JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831-1879)
James Clerk Maxwell was born on 13th June 1831 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was one of the greatest scientists the world has known. Maxwell became famous for the four partial differential equators, h... |
MICHEAL FARADAY (1791-1825)
Michael Faraday was an English physicist and chemist who conducted many experiments and whose discoveries range from the Faraday effect to lenses with high refractive indices. Perhaps the most impor... |  |
 | MICHELSON, ALBERT ABRAHAM (1852-1931)
Albert Abraham Michelson, German born U.S. physicist, discovered the speed of light as a fundamental constant and pursued other spectroscopic and meteorological investigations. He was the first Amer... |
NEWTON, SIR ISAAC (1642-1727)
Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and a theoretical physicist, whose theories and discoveries represent one of the greatest contributions to science by a single individual. He achieved an... |  |
 | GEORG SIMON OHM (1789-1854)
Georg Simon Ohm was born on March 16, 1789 at Erlangen, Bavaria (now Germany). Ohm was a German physicist who discovered the fundamental law that bears his name. The SI unit of electrical resistance ... |
PAULI, WOLFGANG (1900-1958)
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian born Swiss theoretical physicist, was recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the exclusion principle, which is now known as the Pauli's principle.... |  |
 | PLANCK, MAX (1858-1947)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born on April 23, 1858, in Kiel, Germany. Max Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics and attained his fame via his role as originator of the quantum th... |
RAMAN, SIR CHANDRASEKHAR VENKATA (1888-1970)
C.V Raman, Indian physicist and the first Asian scientist to win the Nobel Prize, was the discoverer of the Raman Effect in light scattering. He did this by monitoring the light waves passing throug... |  |
 | RONTGEN, WILHELM (1845-1923)
Conrad Wilhelm Rontgen, German physicist, was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays. The discovery of X-rays ushered in a new age in physics as well a... |
STEPHEN HAWKING ( 1942)
Stephen William Hawking, British physicist, and holder of Newton’s chair at Cambridge, is perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century since Einstein. His work on black holes, the big b... |  |
 | TORRICELLI, EVANGELISTA (1608 - 1647)
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist, made one of the most significant contributions to science by inventing the mercury barometer. He also made important contributions to cal... |
VOLTA, ALESSANDRO, COUNT (1745-1827)
Count Allessandro (full name – Allessandro Giusseppe Antonio Anastasio) Volta, was an Italian physicist who invented the battery or Voltaic Pile or Cell, thus providing for the first time, a sustaine... |  |
 | WERNER KARL HEISENBERG (1901-1976)
Werner Heisenberg was a German physicist and is best known for the Uncertainty Principle, which he discovered in 1927. According to this Principle it is not possible to determine the momentum and p... |
THOMSON, SIR JOSEPH JOHN (1856-1940)
Joseph John Thomson, British physicist and Nobel Laureate, was an inspirational scientist who contributed significantly to Atomic Theory with his work on the Internal Structure of atoms. It was large... |  |
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