Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

male, deceased (1867)
farad, electromagnetism, Electromagnetism physicist, electron, electricity, Faraday's law of induction…physicist
Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or "natural philosopher", in the terminology of th...
Edward Teller

Edward Teller

male, deceased (2003)
physicist, thermonuclear, theoretical physics, World War II, nuclear fusion, scientist…Nuclear physicist
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name "Teller Ede") (January 15 1908 - September 9 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical...
Paul Davies

Paul Davies

male, 63 years old
Member of ISSR, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Mars, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, Erdős number 4, quantum field theory…physicist
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor...
Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg

male, 76 years old
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, University of Texas at Austin faculty, Cornell University alumni, weak force, American, Bronx High School of Science alumni…Electroweak Theory physicist, physicist
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. He was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (with colleagues Abdus Salam and...
Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

male, deceased (1976)
Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, German nuclear energy project, scientist, wartime nuclear energy program, physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and acknowledged to be one...
Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind

male
Stanford University, quantum field theory, string theorist, American, Theoretical physicist, Stanford University faculty…physicist
Leonard Susskind (born 1940) is the Felix Bloch professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University in the field of string theory and quantum...
Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

male, 62 years old
electromagnetism, Harvard University, Theoretical physicist, string theorist, Dr. Michio Kaku, einstein…physicist
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring...
Edward Witten

Edward Witten

male, 58 years old (United States)
Jewish person, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, American, m-theory, Fields Medalist, string theorist…mathematical physicist, Theoretical physicist, physicist
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He...
Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

male, deceased (1922)
inventor, telephone, scientist, American, immigrant to Canada, immigrant to the United States…Telecommunication physicist, physicist
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated...
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

male, deceased (2008) (Sri Lanka)
science fiction writer, 2001 A Space Odyssey, writer, Essayist, science-fiction, Futurist…physicist
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel "2001: A Space...