Hippolyte Pixii

Hippolyte Pixii

male, deceased (1835)
Hippolyte Pixii (1808 - 1835) was an instrument maker from Paris, France. In 1832 he built an early form of alternating current electrical...
Antoine César Becquerel

Antoine César Becquerel

male, deceased (1878)
Antoine César Becquerel was a French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena. He was born at Chatillon sur L...
Peter Jefferies

Peter Jefferies

male
Peter Jefferies is a musician from New Zealand. In 1981 Peter and his brother Graeme Jefferies formed the post-punk band Nocturnal Projections. The...
Douglas D. Osheroff

Douglas D. Osheroff

male, 64 years old (California, United States)
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 with David Lee and Robert C....
Murray Gold

Murray Gold

male, 40 years old
Murray Gold (born 1969, Portsmouth, England) is a British composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio.
Alfredo Elias Ayub

Alfredo Elias Ayub

male, 59 years old
Alfredo Elías Ayub. Current Director General of the Comisión Federal de Electricidad is the Mexican state-owned electric monopoly, widely known as...

C. F. du Fay

male, deceased (1739)
Charles François de Cisternay du Fay was a French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi. He discovered the existence of two types of e...
Emil Rathenau

Emil Rathenau

male, deceased (1915)
Emil Moritz Rathenau (december 11 1838 - June 20 1915) was a German entrepreneur and industrialist, a leading figure in the early European...
Heinrich Lenz

Heinrich Lenz

male, deceased (1865)
Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (February 12, 1804 - February 10, 1865) was a Baltic German physicist most famous for formulating Lenz's law in 1833....
Hippolyte Fizeau

Hippolyte Fizeau

male, deceased (1896)
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (September 23, 1819-1896), French physicist, was born in Paris. His earliest work was concerned with improvements in...