J. J. Thomson

J. J. Thomson

male, deceased (1940)
Nobel laureate in Physics, President of the Royal Society, electron, scientist, Christian, buried at Westminster Abbey
Sir Joseph John Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 - 30 August 1940) usually known as J. J. Thomson, was a British scientist. Thomson is credited...
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...
Harry Gray

Harry Gray

male
Harry Barkus Gray, Western Kentucky University, electron transfer, electron tunneling, Arnold O. Beckman, Beckman Institute…electron
Harry Barkus Gray is currently the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at the California...
Julian Schwinger

Julian Schwinger

male, deceased (1994) (Berkeley, United States)
Harvard University, Columbia University, I.I. Rabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, physicist, World War II…electron
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He formulated the theory of renormalization...
Willis Lamb

Willis Lamb

male, 96 years old
University of Arizona faculty, American, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Erdős number 3, University of California, Berkeley alumni…electron
Willis Eugene Lamb, Junior (born July 12, 1913) is a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine...
Robert Andrews Millikan

Robert Andrews Millikan

male, deceased (1953)
Congregationalist, Oersted Medal recipient, Nobel Prize, Columbia University alumni, University of Chicago faculty, physics…electron
Professor Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 - December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize for his...
George Paget Thomson

George Paget Thomson

male, deceased (1975)
Old Persean, British Military, World War I veteran, Fellow of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize, World War I…electron, electron diffraction
Sir George Paget Thomson FRS (May 3, 1892 - September 10, 1975) was a Nobel-Prize-winning, English physicist who discovered the wave properties of...
Rudolph A. Marcus

Rudolph A. Marcus

male, 86 years old
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty, Jewish, B.Sc., Doctor of Philosophy, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry…electron transfer, Outer-Sphere electron transfer, electron
Rudolph "Rudy" Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electron transfer. Marcus theory,...
Carl David Anderson

Carl David Anderson

male, deceased (1991)
buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, California Institute of Technology faculty, Particle physicist, Caltech, forest lawn memorial park, swedish…electron
Carl David Anderson (3 September 1905 - 11 January 1991) was a U.S. experimental physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron, an...
Polykarp Kusch

Polykarp Kusch

male, deceased (1993)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, electron, Case Western Reserve University, physicist, German-American, German
Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate...