James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

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

Oliver Heaviside

male, deceased (1925)
physicist, engineer, vector analysis, Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician, electrical engineer…Maxwell's equations, differential equations, Maxwell's field equations
Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 - February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex...

Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Relativists, eidetic memory, Chaos theorist, principle of relativity, topologist, three-body problem…Maxwell's equations
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...
Allen Taflove

Allen Taflove

male
Finite-difference time-domain method, Northwestern University, electrical engineer, Northwestern University faculty, electromagnetic wave, Maxwell's equations
Allen Taflove is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Northwestern University's McCormick School of...
Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs

male, deceased (1903)
physicist, Mathematical analyst, second law of thermodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, physical chemistry, Ph.D.…Maxwell's equations
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 - April 28, 1903) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer, theoretical physicist, and chemist noted...
George Fitzgerald

George Fitzgerald

male, deceased (1901)
Diocese of Killaloe, Relativists, Killaloe, Trinity College, Dublin, special theory of relativity, special relativity…Maxwell's equations
George Francis FitzGerald (3 August 1851 - 22 February 1901) was a professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity...
Horace Lamb

Horace Lamb

male, deceased (1934)
physicist, 1849-1934, Academic of the University of Manchester, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Maxwell's equations, Victoria University of Manchester
Sir Horace Lamb FRS (November 29, 1849 - December 4, 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical...

Robert Mills

male, deceased (1999)
Putnam Fellow, brookhaven national laboratory, princeton, tensor, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Columbia College…Maxwell's equations
Robert L. Mills (April 15, 1927 - October 27, 1999) was a physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body...
Woldemar Voigt

Woldemar Voigt

male, deceased (1919)
Voigt effect, thermodynamics, physics, tensor, special relativity, gottingen…Maxwell's equations
Woldemar Voigt was a German physicist. He was born in Leipzig, and died in Göttingen. He was a student of Franz Ernst Neumann. He worked on c...
Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev

Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev

male, deceased (1912)
Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Maxwell's equations, doctoral degree, strasbourg, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University, Moscow State University
Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev was a prominent Russian physicist. He made his doctoral degree in Strasbourg under the supervision of August Kundt in...