James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
Maxwell's equations, electricity, magnetism, mathematical physics, mathematician and theoretical physicist, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution…physicist, Electromagnetism physicist
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

male, deceased (1943)
physicist, electrical engineering, tesla coil, scientist, electricity and magnetism, electricity
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he...
Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin

54 years old
Harvard University alumni, Quantum Gravity physicist, Loop quantum gravity, quantum mechanics, American, fecund universes…physicist
Lee Smolin (born 1955 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and...
Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

male, deceased (1642)
physics, scientific revolution, physicist, From Tuscany, Italian, Astronomer
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher closely associated with...
Frank Oppenheimer

Frank Oppenheimer

male, deceased (1985)
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Oersted Medal recipient, Johns Hopkins University alumni, Venona Appendix D, Manhattan Project, scientist…physicist
Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 - February 3, 1985) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a target of...
Marie Curie

Marie Curie

female, deceased (1934)
physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Chemist, 1867-1934, sorbonne
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; known in France and most other countries as Marie Curie; November 7, 1867 - July 4 1934) was a Po...

Luboš Motl

male, 36 years old
global warming, Doctor of Philosophy, blog, gauge theory, AdS/CFT, supersymmetry…physicist, Theoretical physicist
Lubos Motl, in Czech Luboš Motl is a Czech theoretical physicist who works on string theory and conceptual problems of quantum gravity. Motl was b...
James Hansen

James Hansen

male, 68 years old
James E. Hansen, Climate change policies, Climate change feedbacks and causes, political controversy, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Action on climate change…physicist
James E. Hansen (born March 29, 1941 in Denison, Iowa), heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a part of the Goddard...
David Bohm

David Bohm

male, deceased (1992)
scientist, death by myocardial infarction, Alumni of the University of Bristol, Jewish American, University of São Paulo, Jewish…physicist, Quantum Theory physicist
David Joseph Bohm (b. December 20 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - d. October 27 1992, London) was an American-born quantum physicist, who made...
Brian Greene

Brian Greene

male, 46 years old
scientist, Jewish American, agnostic, defined Erdős–Bacon number, prodigy, rhodes scholar…physicist
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia...