Category: Physicists

Б

• Николай Геннадиевич Басов 14 Dec 1922 Усмань, Липецкая, Советский Союз - 1 Jul 2001

К

• Пётр Леони́дович Leonidovich (Капи́ца) Kapitsa Jun 1894 Kronstadt, Russia - 8 Apr 1984
• Серге́й Sergey Петро́вич Petrovich (Капи́ца) Kapitsa 14 Feb 1928 Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom - 14 Aug 2012

С

• Николай Борисович Сухомлин Apr 1945 Ленинград, Советский Союз - 12 Jan 2010

仁

• 芳雄 仁科 6 Dec 1890 日本岡山県浅口郡里庄 - 10 Jan 1951

佐

• 光男 (佐野) 村岡 1929 日本 - 30 Jan 2008

和

• 和田-11
• 三樹 和達 10 Feb 1945 日本東京都 - 15 Sep 2011

大

• 正敏 大河内 6 Dec 1878 日本東京府 - 29 Aug 1952
• 大谷-30

安

• 寬 安倍 abt 1934 日本 - 6 Dec 2019

小

• 秀樹 (小川) 湯川 23 Jan 1907 日本東京府 - 8 Sep 1981
• 小林-26

山

• 鋭之助 山口 9 Mar 1862 日本出雲国 - 4 Mar 1945

朝

• 振一郎 朝永 31 Mar 1906 日本東京府 - 8 Jul 1979

本

• 光太郞 本多 23 Feb 1870 日本愛知県岡崎市 - 12 Feb 1954

松

• 松平-409

荒

• 文策 荒勝 25 Mar 1890 日本兵庫県姫路市 - 25 Jun 1973

西

• 潤一 (西澤) 西沢 12 Sep 1926 日本宮城県仙台市 - 21 Oct 2018

長

• 半太郞 長岡 19 Aug 1865 日本長崎県大村市 - 11 Dec 1950

鳩

• 道夫 鳩山 1909 - 1993

A

• Adkins-5468
• André-Marie Ampère 20 Jan 1775 Lyon, Lyonnais, France - 10 Jun 1836
• Carl David Anderson 3 Sep 1905 New York, New York, USA - 11 Jan 1991
• Edward Victor Appleton 6 Sep 1892 Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - 21 Apr 1965
• James J. Auborn 1940s - 2010s
• William Edward Ayrton 14 Sep 1847 London United Kingdom - 8 Nov 1908

B

• Joseph Arthur Ball 16 Aug 1894 Massachusetts, United States - 27 Aug 1951
• John Bardeen 23 May 1908 Madison, Wisconsin - 30 Jan 1991
• Charles Glover Barkla 7 Jun 1877 Widnes, United Kingdom - 23 Oct 1944
• Alexandre Edmond Becquerel 24 Mar 1820 Paris, Seine, France - 11 May 1891
• Antoine Henri Becquerel 15 Dec 1852 Paris, France - 25 Aug 1908
• Hans Albrecht A. Bethe 1900s - 2000s
• Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes 14 Mar 1862 Oslo, Norge - 9 Apr 1951
• Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett 1897 - 1974
• Felix Bloch 23 Oct 1905 Zürich, Switzerland - 10 Sep 1983
• Aage Niels Bohr 19 Jun 1922 København, Danmark - 8 Sep 2009
• Niels Henrik David Bohr 7 Oct 1885 Garnisons Sogn, Copenhagen, Denmark - 18 Nov 1962
• Max Born 11 Dec 1882 Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany - 5 Jan 1970
• William T. Bovie 11 Sep 1882 Augusta, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States - 1 Jan 1958
• Willard Sterling Boyle 19 Aug 1924 Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada - 7 May 2011
• William Henry Bragg OM KBE 2 Jul 1862 Wigton, Cumberland, England - 12 Mar 1942
• William Lawrence Bragg CH KBE MC 31 Mar 1890 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - 1 Jul 1971
• Désiré Eugène Édouard Branly 23 Oct 1844 Amiens, Somme, France - 24 Mar 1940
• Walter Houser Brattain 10 Feb 1902 Amoy, China - 13 Oct 1987
• Ferdinand Braun 6 Jun 1850 Fulda, Hesse-Kassel (now Germany) - 20 Apr 1918
• Percy Williams Bridgman 21 Apr 1882 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States - 20 Aug 1961
• Bertram Neville Brockhouse 15 Jul 1918 Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada - 13 Oct 2003

C

• Chester Floyd Carlson 8 Feb 1906 Seattle, Washington, USA - 19 Sep 1968
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot 1 Jun 1796 Paris, Île-de-France, France - 24 Aug 1832
• Giovanni Caselli 8 Jun 1815 Siena, Italy[ - 25 Apr 1891
• Anders Celsius 27 Nov 1701 Uppsala, Sweden - 25 Apr 1744
• James Chadwick 20 Oct 1891 Bolington, Cheshire, England - 24 Jul 1974
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov 28 Jul 1904 Voronezh Oblast, Russian Empire - 6 Jan 1990
• Samuel Hunter Christie 22 Mar 1784 London, England - 24 Jan 1865
• William Henry Mahony Christie 1 Oct 1845 Woolwich, England - 22 Jan 1922
• Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius 2 Jan 1822 Köslin (Pommern) - 24 Aug 1888
• Arthur Holly Compton 10 Sep 1892 Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States - 15 Mar 1962

C cont.

• Karl Taylor Compton 14 Sep 1887 Wooster, Ohio, USA - 22 Jun 1954
• Charles Francis Cook 7 Aug 1910 Whitewater, Wisconsin - 26 Dec 1994
• Irène (Curie) Joliot-Curie 12 Sep 1897 Paris XIII, Paris, Seine, France - 17 Mar 1956
• Pierre Curie 15 May 1859 Paris, Seine, France - 19 Apr 1906

D

• Nils Gustaf Dalén 30 Nov 1869 Skräddaregården, Stenstorp, Västergötland, Sverige - 9 Dec 1937
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 24 Oct 1932 Paris, Seine, France - 18 May 2007
• Martin Deutsch 29 Jan 1917 Vienna, Austria-Hungary - 16 Aug 2002
• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac 8 Aug 1902 Bristol, England - 20 Oct 1984
• Andrée Luce (Dubus) Langevin-Dubus 26 Dec 1899 Marissel, Oise, France - 27 Aug 2002
• Freeman John Dyson 15 Dec 1923 Crowthorne, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom - 28 Feb 2020

E

• Albert Einstein 14 Mar 1879 Ulm, Königreich Württemberg, Deutsches Reich - 18 Apr 1955

F

• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 24 May 1686 Danzig, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - 16 Sep 1736
• Michael Faraday 22 Sep 1791 Newington Butts, Southwark, London, England - 25 Aug 1867
• Robert Earl Fassnacht 14 Jan 1937 South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States - 24 Aug 1970
• Richard Phillips Feynman 11 May 1918 New York City - 15 Feb 1988
• John Ambrose Fleming 29 Nov 1849 Lancaster, Lancashire, England - 18 Apr 1945
• Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault 18 Sep 1819 Paris, Seine, France - 11 Feb 1868
• Jean-Joseph Fourier 21 Mar 1768 Auxerre, France - 16 May 1830
• James Franck 26 Aug 1882 Hamburg, Germany - 21 May 1964
• Anthony Philip French 19 Nov 1920 Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 3 Feb 2017
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel 19 May 1788 Broglie, Normandie, France - 14 Jul 1827

G

• Johannes Wilhelm Geiger 30 Sep 1882 Neustadt an der Haardt, Palatinate, German Empire - 24 Sep 1945
• Murray Gell-Mann 15 Sep 1929 Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States - 24 May 2019
• Josiah Willard Gibbs Jr. 11 Feb 1839 New Haven, Connecticut, United States - 28 Apr 1903
• Donald Arthur Glaser abt 21 Sep 1926 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States - 28 Feb 2013
• Maria (Goeppert) Mayer 28 Jun 1906 Kattowitz, German Empire - 20 Feb 1972
• Gordon Gould 17 Jul 1920 New York City, USA - 16 Sep 2005
• Charles-Édouard Guillaume 15 Feb 1861 Fleurier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland - 13 Jun 1938

H

• Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS 8 Jan 1942 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom - 14 Mar 2018
• Werner Karl Heisenberg 5 Dec 1901 Würzburg, Germany - 1 Feb 1976
• Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand (Helmholtz) von Helmholtz 31 Aug 1821 Potsdam, Königreich Preußen, Deutscher Bund - 8 Sep 1894
• Gustav Ludwig Hertz 22 Jul 1887 Hamburg, Germany - 30 Oct 1975
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 22 Feb 1857 Hamburg, Germany - 1 Jan 1894
• Robert Dailey Hitchcock 11 Dec 1923 Los Angeles, California - 31 Jan 2009
• Norman Jefferis Holter 1 Feb 1914 Helena, Montana - 21 Jul 1983
• John Hopkinson 27 Jul 1849 Manchester - 27 Aug 1898

I

• Shinya Inoué 5 Jan 1921 London, England, United Kingdom - 30 Sep 2019

J

• Jules Célestin Jamin 31 May 1818 Termes, Ardennes, France - 12 Feb 1886
• Karl Guthe Jansky 22 Oct 1905 Norman, Oklahoma, USA - 14 Feb 1950
• Ali Javan 26 Dec 1926 Tabriz, Iran - 12 Sep 2016
• Jean Frédéric (Joliot) Joliot-Curie 19 Mar 1900 Paris XVI, Paris, Seine, France - 14 Aug 1958

K

• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 21 Sep 1853 Groningen, Groningen, Nederland - 21 Feb 1926
• Erhard Karl Kietz 22 Aug 1909 Leipzig, Germany - 6 Apr 1982
• Jack St. Clair Kilby 8 Nov 1923 Jefferson City, Missouri, USA - 20 Jun 2005
• Robert Klapisch 1930s - 2020s
• Rudolf Kompfner 16 May 1909 Vienna, Austria - 3 Dec 1977

L

• Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. 12 Jul 1913 Los Angeles, California, United States - 15 May 2008
• Lev Davidovich Landau 22 Jan 1908 баку, баку, Россия - 1 Apr 1968
• Paul Langevin 23 Jan 1872 Paris XVIII, Paris, Seine, France - 19 Dec 1946
• Samuel Pierpont Langley 22 Aug 1834 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA - 27 Feb 1906
• Irving Langmuir 31 Jan 1881 Brooklyn, New York, USA - 16 Aug 1957
• Max Theodor Felix (Laue) von Laue 9 Oct 1879 Pfaffendorf, Germany - 23 Apr 1960
• Leon Max Lederman 15 Jul 1922 New York City, New York, United States - 3 Oct 2018
• Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann 16 Aug 1845 Hollerich, Luxembourg - 13 Jul 1921
• Oliver Joseph Lodge 12 Jun 1851 Penkhull, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom - 22 Aug 1940
• Hendrik Antoon Lorentz 18 Jul 1853 Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland - 4 Feb 1928
• Archibald Montgomery Low 17 Oct 1888 Purley, Surrey, England - 13 Sep 1956

M

• Theodore Harold Maiman 11 Jul 1927 Los Angeles, California, USA - 5 May 2007
• Guglielmo Marconi 25 Apr 1874 Bologna, Italy - 20 Jul 1937

M cont.

• Erzsébet (Matolcsy) Matolcsy de Szathmár 17 Apr 1945 Altötting, Altötting, Oberbayern, Bavaria, Németország - 15 Apr 1970
• Sebastian Jacob Mauchly 9 Jul 1878 Swanton, Fulton County, Ohio, USA - 24 Dec 1928
• Boyce Dawkins McDaniel 11 Jun 1917 Brevard, Transylvania, North Carolina, United States - 8 May 2002
• Ronald Erwin McNair 21 Oct 1950 Lake City, Florence County, South Carolina, United States of America - 28 Jan 1986
• Albert Abraham Michelson 19 Dec 1852 Strelno (now Strzelno), Prussia (now Poland) - 9 May 1931
• Clark Blanchard Millikan 23 Aug 1903 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States - 2 Jan 1966
• Robert Andrews Millikan 22 Mar 1868 Morrison, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA - 19 Dec 1953
• John Joseph Montgomery 15 Feb 1858 Yuba City, Sutter, California, United States - 31 Oct 1911
• Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley 23 Nov 1887 Weymouth, Dorset, England - 10 Aug 1915
• Rudolf Mößbauer 31 Jan 1929 München - 14 Sep 2011

N

• John Napier 1550 Merchiston, Midlothian, Scotland - abt 4 Apr 1617
• Isaac Newton 25 Dec 1642 Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England - 20 Mar 1727
• Walter McKinley Nielsen 18 Dec 1900 Tyler, Lincoln, Minnesota, United States - 7 Jan 1981
• Jean-Antoine Nollet 19 Dec 1700 Pimprez, Île-de-France, France - abt 24 Apr 1770
• Harry Theodor (Nyqvist) Nyquist 7 Feb 1889 Tomthult, Stora Kil, Värmland, Sweden - 4 Apr 1976

O

• Gerard Kitchen O'Neill 6 Feb 1927 Brooklyn, New York, USA - 27 Apr 1992

P

• Antonio Pacinotti 17 Jun 1841 Pisa, Italy - 24 Mar 1912
• Luigi Palmieri 22 Apr 1807 Faicchio, Benevento, Italy - 9 Sep 1896
• Blaise Pascal 19 Jun 1623 Clermont-Ferrand, France - 19 Aug 1662
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli 25 Apr 1900 Vienna, Austria-Hungary - 15 Dec 1958
• Penzias-1
• Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot 3 Nov 1863 Metz, Moselle, France - 28 Nov 1925
• Auguste Antoine Piccard 28 Jan 1884 Basel, Switzerland - 24 Mar 1962
• Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau 14 Oct 1801 Brussel, Dijledepartement, Franse Republiek - 15 Sep 1883
• Илья Романович Prigogine 12 Jan 1917 Москва́, Российская империя - 28 May 2003

R

• Israel Isaac Rabi 29 Jul 1898 Rymanów, Sanok, Galicia, Austria-Hungary - 11 Jan 1988
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 7 Nov 1888 Thiruvanaikoil, Madras Presidency, British India - 21 Nov 1970
• Owen Willans Richardson 26 Apr 1879 Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - 15 Feb 1959
• Charles Francis Richter 26 Apr 1900 Overpeck, Butler, Ohio, United States - 30 Sep 1985
• Heinrich Rohrer 6 Jun 1933 Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland - 16 May 2013
• Wilhelm Conrad (Röntgen) Roentgen 27 Mar 1845 Lennep, Rhine Province, Germany - 10 Feb 1923
• Ernst August Friedrich Ruska 25 Dec 1906 Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire - 27 May 1988

S

• Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger 12 Aug 1887 Wien, Österreich - 4 Jan 1961
• Julian Seymour Schwinger 12 Feb 1918 New York, New York, New York, USA - 16 Jul 1994
• Maria Salomea (Skłodowska) Curie 7 Nov 1867 Warszawa, Warszawskie, Polska - 4 Jul 1934
• Harald H. Soleng 1960s - unknown
• Johannes Stark 15 Apr 1874 Schickenhof, German Empire - 21 Jun 1957
• Aurel Boleslav Stodola 10 May 1859 Liptovský Mikuláš, Kingdom of Hungary - 25 Dec 1942
• John William Strutt 12 Nov 1842 Maldon, Essex, England - 20 Jun 1919

T

• Edward Teller PhD 15 Jan 1908 Budapest, Austria-Hungary - 9 Sep 2003
• Helen (Thom) Edwards 27 May 1936 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States - 21 Jun 2016
• Benjamin Thompson 26 Mar 1753 Woburn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay - 21 Aug 1814
• David W. Thomson III 1960s - unknown
• George Paget Thomson 3 May 1892 Cambridge, England - 10 Sep 1975
• Joseph John Thomson 18 Dec 1856 Manchester, England - 30 Aug 1940
• Evangelista Torricelli 15 Oct 1608 Rome, Italy - 25 Oct 1647

V

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals 23 Nov 1837 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland - 8 Mar 1923
• Von Hippel-59
• Philipp Philipp Gustav von Jolly 26 Sep 1809 Mannheim, Germany - 24 Dec 1884
• Philipp Eduard Anton (von Lenard) Lenard 7 Jun 1862 Pressburg (now Bratislava), Hungary (now Slovakia) - 20 May 1947

W

• John Archibald Wheeler 9 Jul 1911 Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA - 13 Apr 2008
• Wilhelm Wien 13 Jan 1864 Gaffken (now Parusnoye), Prussia (now Russia) - 30 Aug 1928
• Eugene Paul Wigner 17 Nov 1902 Budapest, Austria-Hungary - 1 Jan 1995
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 14 Feb 1869 Glencorse, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 15 Nov 1959
• Wilson-65906

Z

• Giuseppe Zamboni 1 Jun 1776 Italy - 25 Jul 1846
• Pieter Zeeman 25 May 1865 Zonnemaire, Zeeland, Nederland - 9 Oct 1943
• Frits Zernike 16 Jul 1888 Amsterdam, Netherlands - 10 Mar 1966