James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

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James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

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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

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

William Gilbert

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William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd (Colchester, England, May 24, 1544 - London, England, November 30, 1603) was an English physician and a...
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c...
James Braid

James Braid

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James Braid (June 19, 1795 - March 25, 1860), was born in Fife, and was the son of James Braid and Anne Suttie. He married Margaret Mason (or...
Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie

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Pierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in...
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Hans Christian Ørsted

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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...
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

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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...
Edward Leedskalnin

Edward Leedskalnin

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Edward Leedskalnin was an eccentric Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who, it is alleged, single-handedly built the...