Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

male, deceased (1867)
farad, electromagnetism, Electromagnetismphysicist, electron, electricity, Faraday's law of induction…physicist
Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or "natural philosopher", in the terminology of th...
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
Maxwell's equations, electricity, magnetism, mathematical physics, mathematician and theoretical physicist, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution…physicist, Electromagnetismphysicist
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

male, deceased (1894)
craters of the Moon named after them, philosopher, University of Bonn faculty, heinrich rudolf hertz, physicist, mechanician…Electromagnetismphysicist
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was the German physicist and mechanician for whom the hertz, an SI unit, is named. In...
Jean-Baptiste Biot

Jean-Baptiste Biot

male, deceased (1862)
pasteur, physicist, mathematician, Alumni of the École Polytechnique, Member of the Académie française, French…Electromagnetismphysicist
Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist, astronomer and mathematician. In the early 1800s, he studied the polarisation of light passing through...