Brian Greene

Brian Greene

male, 46 years old
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia...
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...

Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...

Herbert Dingle

male, deceased (1978)
Herbert Dingle was an English astronomer and president of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is best-known for his claimed disproof of the theory...
Abner Shimony

Abner Shimony

male, 81 years old
Abner Shimony (born 1928, Columbus, Ohio) is an American physicist and philosopher of science specializing in quantum theory. He is currently Prof....
George Fitzgerald

George Fitzgerald

male, deceased (1901)
George Francis FitzGerald (3 August 1851 - 22 February 1901) was a professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity...
Olinto de Pretto

Olinto de Pretto

deceased (1921)
Olinto De Pretto was an Italian industrialist from Schio, Vicenza. According to University of Perugia historian of mathematics Umberto Bartocci, De...
Woldemar Voigt

Woldemar Voigt

male, deceased (1919)
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...

Ricardo Carezani

male, 88 years old
Ricardo Libertario Carezani, is an Argentine physicist and creator of Autodynamics (AD). Carezani supposedly was led to this theory after finding...
Evan Harris Walker

Evan Harris Walker

male, deceased (2006)
Evan Harris Walker (died August 17, 2006), was an American physicist. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Walker received his Ph.D. in physics from the...