Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne

male, 69 years old (Pasadena, California, United States)
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for...
David Hilbert

David Hilbert

male, deceased (1943)
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th...
Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl

male, deceased (1955)
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich and then Princeton, he is closely i...

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...
Karl Schwarzschild

Karl Schwarzschild

male, deceased (1916)
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild. He was born in Frankfurt am...
John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler

male, 98 years old
John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he...
Marcel Grossmann

Marcel Grossmann

male, deceased (1936)
Marcel Grossmann (born in Budapest on April 9, 1878 - died in Zurich on September 7, 1936) was a mathematician, a friend, and a classmate of Albert...
Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski

male, deceased (1909)
Hermann Minkowski (June 22, 1864 in Aleksotas/Russian Empire (today Kaunas, Lithuania), – January 12, 1909 in Göttingen) was a Lithuanian-born Ger...
Roy Kerr

Roy Kerr

male, 75 years old
Roy Patrick Kerr (born 1934) is a New Zealand born mathematician who is best known for discovering the famous Kerr vacuum, an exact solution to the...