Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

male, deceased (1943)
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he...
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

male, deceased (1867)
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)
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Kristian Birkeland

Kristian Birkeland

male, deceased (1917)
Kristian Birkeland (December 13, 1867 - June 15, 1917) was born in Christiania (Oslo today) and wrote his first scientific paper at the age of 18....
Paul Lauterbur

Paul Lauterbur

male, deceased (2007) (Urbana, Illinois, United States)
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work...
Francis Bitter

Francis Bitter

male, deceased (1967)
Francis Bitter (July 22, 1902 - July 26, 1967) was an American physicist. Bitter invented the Bitter plate used in resistive magnets (also called...
Bryan Gaensler

Bryan Gaensler

male, 36 years old
Bryan Malcolm Gaensler (born July 4, 1973) is an Australian astronomer based at the University of Sydney. He is best known for his work on...
Jean-Baptiste Biot

Jean-Baptiste Biot

male, deceased (1862)
Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist, astronomer and mathematician. In the early 1800s, he studied the polarisation of light passing through...

Robert Norman

male
Robert Norman was a 16th century British mariner, compass builder, and hydrographer. He is noted for his London publication in 1581 of "The Newe...
Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Kapitsa

male, deceased (1984)
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was a Russian physicist who discovered superfluidity with contribution from John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937....