Max Planck

Max Planck

male, deceased (1947)
Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, physicist, quantummechanics, quantum theory, Particle physics
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and therefore one of the most important...
Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

male, deceased (1962)
physicist, Quantum Theory physicist, scientist, Danish, Nobel Prize, quantummechanics…inherently probabilistic quantum phenome, quantum theory
Niels (Henrik David) Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for...
Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

male, deceased (1976)
Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, German nuclear energy project, scientist, wartime nuclear energy program, physicist…quantummechanics
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and acknowledged to be one...
David Bohm

David Bohm

male, deceased (1992)
scientist, death by myocardial infarction, Alumni of the University of Bristol, Jewish American, University of São Paulo, Jewish…quantum, quantummechanics, Quantum Theory physicist
David Joseph Bohm (b. December 20 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - d. October 27 1992, London) was an American-born quantum physicist, who made...
Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac

male, deceased (1984) (Houston, Texas, United States)
Dirac equation, Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Florida State University faculty, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Florida State University…quantummechanics
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum...
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

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

Erwin Schrödinger

male, deceased (1961)
Schrödinger equation, Quantum Theory physicist, physicist, Nobel Prize, quantummechanics, thought experiment
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian - Irish physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, e...
Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin

54 years old
Harvard University alumni, Quantum Gravity physicist, Loop quantum gravity, quantummechanics, American, fecund universes…Quantum Gravity, quantum
Lee Smolin (born 1955 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and...
Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi

male, deceased (1954)
Nobel Prize in Physics, Italian-American, physicist, quantummechanics, thermodynamicist, Erdős number 3…statistical mechanics, quantum theory
Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…quantummechanics, quantum physics
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...