Anaximander

Anaximander

male
Anaximander (Ancient Greek: "'"') (c. 610 BCE-c. 546 BCE) was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He joined the...
Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach

male, deceased (1916)
Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the "Mach number" (also known...
David Deutsch

David Deutsch

male, 56 years old
David Deutsch (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department...
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...
Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra

male, 70 years old
Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist. Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics...
J. J. Thomson

J. J. Thomson

male, deceased (1940)
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...
David Gross

David Gross

male, 68 years old
David Jonathan Gross is an American particle physicist and string theorist (although he's stated to the Brazilian newspaper "Folha de São Paulo", o...
Steven E. Jones

Steven E. Jones

male, 60 years old
Steven Earl Jones is an American physicist. For most of his career, Jones was known mainly for his work on muon-catalyzed cold fusion. In the fall...

Sidney Coleman

male, 72 years old
Sidney Richard Coleman (b. 7 March 1937) is an eminent theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann, receiving his PhD from Caltech in...
Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke

male, deceased (1703)
Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both ex...