James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

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

Richard Taylor

male
Naturalist, Taylor and Francis, Scientific Memoirs, Annals of Natural History, PhilosophicalMagazine, scientific journal
Richard Taylor was an English naturalist and publisher of scientific journals. He published the first edition of the "Philosophical Magazine" in...

Richard Phillips

male, deceased (1851)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Chemist, British, william phillips, Royal Society, William Allen…PhilosophicalMagazine
Richard Phillips (1778 - May 11, 1851), was distinguished as a British chemist, and became fellow of the Royal Society in 1822. He was appointed...
Pieter Zeeman

Pieter Zeeman

male, deceased (1943)
physicist, 1865-1943, Leiden University alumni, Leiden University faculty, physics, dutch…PhilosophicalMagazine
Pieter Zeeman (Zonnemaire, May 25, 1865 - Amsterdam, October 9, 1943) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik...
Archibald Scott Couper

Archibald Scott Couper

male, deceased (1892)
Kirkintilloch, August Kekulé, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, University of Paris V René Descartes, East Dunbartonshire, Alumni of the University of Glasgow…PhilosophicalMagazine
Archibald Scott Couper (March 31, 1831, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland-March 11, 1892, Kirkintilloch) developed the theory of...
Wilson Lowry

Wilson Lowry

male, deceased (1824)
Worcester, Portrait artist, surgeon, Royal Academy, arundel, engraver…PhilosophicalMagazine
Wilson Lowry (January 24, 1762 - June 23, 1824) was an English engraver. He was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, the son of Strickland Lowry, a...
William Daniel Conybeare

William Daniel Conybeare

male, deceased (1857)
buried at Brompton Cemetery, FRS, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford, priest, Anglican priest, Anglican…PhilosophicalMagazine
William Daniel Conybeare FRS (7 June, 1787 - 12 August, 1857), dean of Llandaff, one of the most distinguished of English geologists, who was born...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

 (India)
PhD, cambridge university, trinity college, 84 years old, scientist, nobel…PhilosophicalMagazine
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in October of 1910 in Lahore, which is now in Pakistan rather than...

George Boole

male
professor, philosophical, principal, Professor of Mathematics, Royal Society, PhilosophicalMagazine
George Boole buːl , ( November 2 , 1815 – December 8 , 1864 ) was a British mathematician and philosopher . As the inventor of Boolean algebra , w...