Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

male, deceased (1790)
inventor, Founding Father of the United States, Signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, lightning rod, electricity, great scientist
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist,...
Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

male, deceased (1943)
physicist, electrical engineering, tesla coil, scientist, electricity and magnetism, electricity
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he...
Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

male, deceased (1931)
inventor, electricity, light bulb, phonograph, Businessman, incandescent light bulb
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11 1847 - October 18 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly...
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

male, deceased (1867)
farad, electromagnetism, Electromagnetism physicist, electron, electricity, Faraday's law of induction
Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or "natural philosopher", in the terminology of th...
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

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

Alessandro Volta

male, deceased (1827)
battery, electricity, physicist, electric battery, inventor, Italian
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 - March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist known especially for the development...
Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry

male, deceased (1878)
electricity, electromagnetism, from Albany, New York, electrical engineering, scientist, induction
Joseph Henry (December 17 1797 - May 13 1878) was a Scottish-American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution....
Luigi Galvani

Luigi Galvani

male, deceased (1798)
electricity, craters of the Moon named after them, physician, Italian, nerve cells, Neuroscientist
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna. In 1771, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs twitched...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
Turing Award laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, mathematical logic, Turing Award…electricity
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
William Gilbert

William Gilbert

male, deceased (1603)
Elektron, electrical engineering, magnetism, New Latin author, James VI and I, College of Physician…electricity, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, static electricity
William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd (Colchester, England, May 24, 1544 - London, England, November 30, 1603) was an English physician and a...