2005 Death Gordon Gould, American Physicist 2003 Death Ilya Prigogine, Belgian Physicist 2000 Death Robert Rathburn Wilson, nuclear physicist, a leader of the Manhattan Project, dies at 82 1999 Death Arthur Schawlow, physicist, co-inventer of the laser, dies at 77 1998 Death Frederick Reines, American Physicist 1997 Death David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52 Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71 1996 Death Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73 Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92 Nevill Francis Mott, physicist, dies at 90 Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91 Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83 Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist, dies at 83 Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88 1995 Death Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84 Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 William A Fowler, U.S. nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83 Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92 1994 Death Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71 Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89 Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies 1993 Death Professor Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80 1992 Death Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies Robert Morris Page, U.S. physicist (radar), dies at 88 1990 Death John Stewart Bell, Irish Physicist 1989 Death Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 William Shockley, American Physicist 1989 Event U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud" 1988 Death Luis W. Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at 77 Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69 Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89 1987 Death Walter H Brattain, U.S. physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85 Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94 1986 Death Robert S Mulliken, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90 1984 Death Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1981 Death Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74 1980 Death Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74 1976 Death Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74 Werner Heisenberg, German Physicist 1975 Death John R Dunning, U.S. physicist, dies at 67 1974 Death Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76 1973 Death Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81 Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer (Mount Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74 1970 Event Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee 1970 Death Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 1969 Death Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81 1968 Death Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 1967 Death Robert J Van De Graaff, U.S. nuclear physicist, dies at 65 1966 Death Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77 1965 Death Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 1964 Death Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist 1963 Birthday Brian Greene, American Physicist 1962 Death Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77 1961 Birthday Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist 1960 Death Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82 Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57 1959 Death Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69 1958 Death Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies 1957 Birthday Christer Fuglesang, born in Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut, Mir backup 1957 Death Walther Bothe, German Physicist 1956 Death Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79 1955 Death Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany Albert Einstein, German U.S. physicist, dies 1954 Death Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53 1953 Death Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85 1952 Death Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58 Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57 1951 Death Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at 76 John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies 1951 Birthday Sally Ride, born in Encino, California, physicist, astronaut, first American woman crewmember in space on the Challenger, founded NASA's Office of Exploration Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/U.S. physicist/meteorology, dies at 89 1950 Birthday Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 1950 Event Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges 1949 Death Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies 1947 Death Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies 1947 Birthday Gerd Binnig, born in Frankfurt, physicist, tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986 Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82 1946 Death James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69 1945 Birthday David Norman Schramm, physicist 1945 Death Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63 1943 Death Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86 1942 Birthday Paul Horowitz, New York City, physicist, META project, Sloan Award 1971-3 Stephen Hawking, English physicist, Black Holes and Baby Universes 1941 Birthday Paul C. W. Chu, China, physicist, superconductivity Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut, STS-9, 42, Soyuz TM-19 Malcolm Longair, born in Dundee Scotland, astronomer, physicist, chairman of the Gemini Board, President, Royal Astronomical Society 1940 Birthday A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel 1973 1937 Death Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, English physicist (Nobel 1908), dies 1936 Event Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry 1934 Death Carl P G von Linde, German physicist (Linde-procede), dies at 92 1933 Death Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Netherlands physicist, dies at 53 1933 Birthday Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986 1932 Event German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa 1931 Birthday James Watson Cronin, nuclear physicist James Cronin, American Physicist Roger Penrose, English Physicist John Schrieffer, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 1931 Death A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, U.S. physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78 1930 Birthday John Polkinghorne, British Physicist Jerome Isaac Friedman, American Physicist Leon Cooper, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 1929 Birthday Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks Rudolf Mossbauer, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1961 1928 Death Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64 1928 Birthday John S. Bell, Irish Physicist Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74 Sam Edwards, physicist 1927 Birthday Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 1967 Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist and auto company executive Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 1926 Birthday Donald A Glaser, physicist, Nobel-1960 1926 Death Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72 Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist 1925 Birthday Simon van der Meer, Dutch Physicist Louis Cohen, physicist William Edgar Mitchell, physicist 1925 Death Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 Leo Esaki, Esaki Reona, Japan, physicist, Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973 1924 Death Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89 1923 Birthday Freeman Dyson, American Physicist Guiseppe Martelli, physicist Walter Kohn, Austrian Physicist 1923 Death Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85 Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77 Peter Fowler, physicist 1922 Birthday Chen Ning Yang, China, U.S. physicist/disproved parity, Nobel 1957 1922 Death Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57 Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975 Nikolaj G. Bassov, born in Russia, atomic physicist, laser, Nobel 1964 1921 Birthday Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist 1921 Death Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75 Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist Jack Steinberger, American Physicist Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75 1920 Death J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies 1920 Birthday Gordon Gould, American Physicist Owen Chamberlain, physicist/co-discoverer, antiproton, Nobel-1959 1919 Death John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist, dies at 70 William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 1918 Birthday Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965 Richard P. Feynman, American Physicist Frederick Reines, American Physicist Julian S Schwinger, U.S. physicist 1917 Birthday Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist, ultra centrifuge William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist, superconductivity Ilya Prigogine, Belgian Physicist 1916 Birthday Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA, Nobel 1962 1916 Death Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78 1915 Birthday Charles Hard Townes, born in Greenville, South Carolina, physicist, developed lasers Clyde Wiegand, physicist Robert Hofstadter, U.S. atomic physicist 1914 Birthday James Van Allen, U.S. physicist, discovered Van Allen radiation belts 1914 Death Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies Alan Hodgkin, British physicist, Nobel 1963 1913 Birthday Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom 1912 Birthday Edward M Purcell, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1952 Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist Carl F von Weiszacker, German physicist/philosopher Alexander Langsdorf, physicist 1911 Birthday Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy John Archibald Wheeler, born in Florida, American theoretical physicist, coined terms black hole, wormhole 1911 Death George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85 Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80 Charles Frank, physicist Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58 Polykarp Kusch, U.S., nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955 1910 Birthday William B Shockley, London, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956, racist William Shockley, American Physicist 1910 Death Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69 1909 Birthday William G Penney, British physicist, 1st British Atom Bomb Lev D Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel 1962 1908 Birthday Hannes OG Alfven, Swedish physicist, Nobel 1970 John Bardeen, U.S., physicist, transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972 1907 Death Kelvin of Largs, William Thomson, Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83 1907 Birthday Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist, atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963 Rudolf Peieris, physicist Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist, Nobel 1949 1906 Birthday Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker Maria Goeppert Mayer, U.S. atomic physicist, Nobel 1963 1906 Death Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies 1905 Birthday Felix Bloch, Swiss/U.S. nuclear physicist, Nobel 1952 Nevill Francis Mott, physicist Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1905 Death Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64 1904 Birthday Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist, molecular structure-Nobel 1971 Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970 Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970 Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist Patrick Johnson, physicist Cornelis Jan Bakker, Dutch and U.S. nuclear physicist 1903 Birthday Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion, Nobel 1950 1903 Death George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83 Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, 1st Rus nuclear bomb 1902 Birthday Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963 Eugene Wigner, American Physicist Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933 Paul Dirac, British Physicist Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956-transistor 1901 Birthday Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist, Mobility of Gaseous Ions Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32 Enrico Fermi, born in Rome, U.S. physicist, gone fission/fermium, Nobel-1938 1901 Death Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70 Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen, physicist, Nobel Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69 1900 Birthday Dennis Gabor, Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/U.S. physicist, Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945 [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel 1935 1898 Birthday Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer, Mount Wilson/Palomar Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist, Whom the God's Love Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944 William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist, textiles Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist 1897 Birthday Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948 Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, neutron, Nobel 1935 John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951 1897 Death Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49 1896 Death Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies 1896 Birthday Robert Mulliken, U.S., chemist/physicist, Nobel 1966 1896 Event German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays 1895 Death Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 1894 Birthday Hans [Henry] Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics 1894 Death Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 1893 Birthday Harold C Urey, Indiana, physicist, Deuterium, Nobel 1934 Harold C. Urey, Physicist 1892 Birthday Arthur H Compton, U.S. physicist, X-rays Edward V Appleton, English physicist, Appleton-layer Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist, Nobel 1929 Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist, studied electrons Robert A. Watson-Watt, England, physicist, radar 1891 Birthday James Chadwick, English physicist, discovered neutron Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954 Walther Bothe, German Physicist 1889 Birthday Balthasar van der Pol, physicist, Comparison of Van der Pol 1888 Birthday Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist, Nobel 1930 1888 Death Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist, Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943 1887 Death Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86 Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 1887 Birthday Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist Erwin Schrodinger, Austria, physicist, had a cat Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist, Nobel 1925 1886 Birthday Karl MG Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, rontgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924 1885 Death Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71 1885 Birthday Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics, Nobel 1922 1883 Death Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies Joseph AF Plateau, Belgian physicist (Blue Moon), dies 1883 Birthday Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist 1882 Birthday Walther Meissner, German physicist, Meissner effect Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954 1881 Birthday Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930 Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist, radiologist 1880 Birthday Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist, crystal Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Netherlands physicist, adiabates hypothesis 1879 Death James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48 1879 Birthday Owen Williams Richardson, born in England, physicist, Nobel 1928 Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect 1878 Birthday Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist, Protactinium Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist Wander J de Haas, Dutch physicist and son-in-law of Lorentz 1878 Death Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1877 Birthday James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1876 Birthday Willem H Keesom, physicist, helium vast 1875 Death Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49 1875 Birthday Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist, father of aerodynamics 1874 Birthday Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist, Actinium 1874 Death Anders J engstrom, Swedish astronomer/physicist (e-unit), dies at 59 Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist, Stark effect, Nobel 1919 1872 Death Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78 1871 Birthday Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908 1870 Birthday Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion, Nobel 1926 1869 Birthday Charles Wilson, English physicist, Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel 1868 Death Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies 1868 Birthday Robert A. Millikan, U.S. physicist, photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923 1865 Birthday Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist Friedrich Paschen, German physicist 1864 Birthday Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist, Nobel 1920 1863 Death Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77 1862 Birthday Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/U.S. physicist/meteorology 1862 Death Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 1859 Birthday Pierre Curie, France, physicist, Nobel 1903 Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist, Nobel 1903 1858 Birthday Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918 1857 Birthday Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast and receive radio waves 1856 Birthday Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906 Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavia, physicist, developed alternating current 1855 Birthday Edwin H Hall, U.S. physicist, Hall effect 1853 Death D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist (chromosome), dies 1853 Birthday Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, liquid helium, Nobel 1913 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, born in Holland, physicist, Nobel 1902 Christian Doppler, physicist, dies 1852 Birthday A[lbert] A. Michelson, Strelno Prussia, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1907 1850 Birthday Oliver Heaviside, London, physicist, predicted ionosphere 1850 Death Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies 1848 Birthday Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist 1847 Birthday Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, 2-fasenmotor 1845 Birthday Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist 1844 Death John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 1844 Birthday Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist, statistical mechanics 1842 Birthday James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist, Dewarfles/cordiet Carl PG von Linde, German engineer/physicist, Linde-procede 1841 Birthday John W. Rayleigh, England, physicist, Nobel 1904, Cambridge, 1908-14 1841 Death Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49 1840 Birthday Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist, Carl Zeiss Optics Company 1839 Birthday August A Kundt, German physicist, sound vibration, test of Kundt Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist 1838 Birthday Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist 1837 Death Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87 1837 Birthday John van der Waals, Hol, physicist, Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States 1836 Death Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies 1835 Birthday Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist, Stefan-Boltzmann law 1834 Birthday Georg H Quincke, German physicist, test of Quincke 1832 Birthday William Crookes, English chemist/physicist, Crookes-pipe, thallium Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, Neumann-functions 1831 Birthday James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist, Treatise on Electricity James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist, electromagnetic theory 1830 Birthday Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist, law of Raoult 1829 Death Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies 1827 Death Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82 1826 Birthday George J Stoney, Irish physicist 1824 Birthday John Kerr, System physicist, electro-visually Kerr-effect Kelvin, William Thomson, British physicist, Kelvin Scale Gustav R. Kirchoff, born in Prussia, physicist, spectral analysis 1822 Birthday Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist, thermodynamics 1821 Birthday Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist 1821 Death Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1819 Birthday Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist, pendulum proved Earth rotates George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician, spectroscope 1818 Birthday James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy 1814 Birthday Anders Jonas engstrom, Sweden, physicist, spectroscope 1813 Birthday Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist, ozone 1810 Birthday Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist 1810 Death Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies 1806 Death Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70 1803 Birthday Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, Doppler effect 1802 Death Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist, dies at 77 1801 Birthday Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist, blinded - stared at Sun 25 seconds Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist, Plucker formulas Gustav T Fechner, Dr. Mises, German philosopher/physicist 1799 Death Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71 Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56 Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist/alpinist, dies at 58 1798 Death Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 1798 Birthday Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist 1795 Death Ignac Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded 1794 Birthday Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer 1791 Birthday Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, law of Biot and Savart 1788 Birthday Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist 1787 Birthday George Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law Joseph von Fraunhofer, born in Germany, physicist, studied Sun's spectrum 1787 Death Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 1786 Birthday Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist D. Francois J. Arago, French astronomer, physicist, and politician 1781 Birthday David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor, kaleidoscope 1777 Birthday Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist, View of Chemical Law 1774 Birthday Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and balloonist 1768 Death Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57 1766 Birthday John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter 1761 Death Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69 1753 Birthday Franz K Achard, German physicist Benjamin Thompson, physicist, Royal Institute of Great Britain 1750 Birthday Martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist, Homo Diluvii Testus 1743 Birthday Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist 1742 Birthday Georg C. Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, types of Lichtenberg 1742 Death Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist, dies at 53 1740 Birthday Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist 1737 Birthday Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist/physicist 1736 Death Daniel G Fahrenheit, Prussian/Netherlands physicist (thermometer), dies at 50 1736 Birthday Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, formulated Coulomb's Law 1731 Birthday Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist, discovered hydrogen 1728 Birthday Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist 1727 Death Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 1724 Birthday Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist 1711 Birthday Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist, philosopher, and astronomer 1705 Death Guillaume Amontons, French physicist, dies at 42 1692 Birthday Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist, Leyden jar 1688 Birthday Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist 1663 Birthday Guillaume Amontons, French physicist 1655 Birthday Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1653 Birthday Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician 1647 Birthday Denis Papin, French physicist, Papiniaanse pot, steam machine 1642 Birthday Isaac Newton, born in Grantham, England, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer 1642 Death Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy 1639 Death John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68 1635 Birthday Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, physicist, Micrographia 1633 Death Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies 1627 Birthday Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author, experiments with color 1623 Birthday Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer, Pascal 1618 Birthday Francesco M. Grimaldi, mathematician and physicist, light defraction 1617 Death Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50 1571 Birthday John I Pontanus, physicist/historian, Amsterdam 1567 Birthday Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect 1564 Birthday Galileo Galilei, born in Pisa, Italy, astronomer and physicist 1544 Birthday William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist, researcher into magnetism 1131 Death Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 1048 Birthday Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra
