Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry

male, deceased (1878)
Joseph Henry (December 17 1797 - May 13 1878) was a Scottish-American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution....
Abdus Salam

Abdus Salam

male, deceased (1996)
Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab - November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who...
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...
Martin Tajmar

Martin Tajmar

male
Martin Tajmar is a research scientist and project manager in the Space Propulsion group at Austrian Research Center (ARC) Seibersdorf. In 2006,...

Samuel O'Reilly

male
Samuel O'Reilly was a tattoo artist and the inventor of the modern rotary tattoo gun, which he patented in 1891. O'Reilly's machine was based on...
Jacob Kirkegaard

Jacob Kirkegaard

male, 34 years old
Jacob Kirkegaard is a sound artist born in 1975 in Denmark, and currently living in Cologne, Germany where he has graduated at the Academy of Arts...
John Henry Poynting

John Henry Poynting

male, deceased (1914)
John Henry Poynting (September 9,1852 - March 30,1914) was an English physicist. He was a professor of physics at Mason Science College (now the...

Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti

deceased (1922)
Temistocle Calzecchi Onesti (December 14, 1853 - November 25, 1922) was an Italian physicist and inventor born at Lapedona, Italy, who demonstrated...
Vilhelm Bjerknes

Vilhelm Bjerknes

male, deceased (1951)
Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes (March 14, 1862 - April 9, 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern...
Jogesh Pati

Jogesh Pati

72 years old
Jogesh C. Pati (born 1937) is a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, the joint recipient of the 2000 Dirac Medal. Pati has made...