Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

male, deceased (1727) (london, United Kingdom)
Sir Isaac Newton <small>&lt;nowiki>[&lt;/nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki&gt;]</nowiki></small&gt; was an English physicist, ma...
Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler

male, deceased (1630)
Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 - November 15 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century...
Thomas Young

Thomas Young

male, deceased (1829)
Thomas Young (June 13, 1773-May 10, 1829) was an English polymath, contributing to optics, physiology, and Egyptology, among other fields.
Emil Wolf

Emil Wolf

male, 87 years old
Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence...
Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
Al-Kindi

Al-Kindi

male, deceased (873)
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,...
Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

male, deceased (1783)
Leonhard Euler , the most prolific mathematician of all time, wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime about 800 pages per year...
Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach

male, deceased (1916)
Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the "Mach number" (also known...
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

male, deceased (1855)
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c...
Charles Fabry

Charles Fabry

male, deceased (1945)
Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was a French physicist. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an...