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,...
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

male, deceased (1867)
Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or "natural philosopher", in the terminology of th...
Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

male, deceased (1943)
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he...
Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg

male, 76 years old
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. He was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (with colleagues Abdus Salam and...
Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

male, 62 years old
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring...
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....

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...
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...
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...

Hans Christian Ørsted

male, deceased (1851)
Hans Christian Ørsted (August 14, 1777 - March 9, 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist, influenced by the thinking of Immanuel Kant. He is b...