| |  | Sir Isaac Newton <small><nowiki>[</nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki>]</nowiki></small> was an English physicist, ma... |  | Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 - November 15 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century... |  | Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence... |  | Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was a French physicist. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an... |  | Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the "Mach number" (also known... |  | Leonhard Euler was one of top mathematicians of the eighteenth century and the greatest mathematician to come out of Switzerland. He made numerous... |  | Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (July 12, 1863-July 5, 1906) was a German physicist specializing in optics. He wrote a fundamental textbook integrating... |  | "' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,... |  | Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 - September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important... |  | Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c... | |
