André-Marie Ampère

male, deceased (1836)
André-Marie Ampère, was a French physicist who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of me...
William Watson

William Watson

male, deceased (1787)
William Watson (3 April 1715 - 10 May 1787) was an English physician and scientist who was born and died in London. His early work was in botany,...
William Crookes

William Crookes

male, deceased (1919)
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was an English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Ch...
James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule

male, deceased (1889)
James Prescott Joule, FRS (December 24, 1818 - October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of...
Adam Beck

Adam Beck

male, deceased (1925)
Sir Adam Beck, (June 20, 1857 - August 15, 1925) was a politician and hydro-electricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of...
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...
Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside

male, deceased (1925)
Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 - February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex...
Charles Wheatstone

Charles Wheatstone

male, deceased (1875)
Sir Charles Wheatstone (February 6, 1802 - October 19, 1875) was a British scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian...
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

male, deceased (1806)
Charles Augustin de Coulomb was a French physicist. He is best known as the discoverer of Coulomb's law which defines the force of electrostatic...
Georg Ohm

Georg Ohm

male, deceased (1854)
Georg Simon Ohm (March 16, 1789 - july 6 1854) was a German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm started his research with the recently...