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2005 Gordon Gould, American Physicist
2003 Ilya Prigogine, Belgian Physicist 2000 Robert Rathburn Wilson, nuclear physicist, a leader of the Manhattan Project, dies at 82 1999 Arthur Schawlow, physicist, co-inventer of the laser, dies at 77 1998 Frederick Reines, American Physicist 1997 David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52 1997 Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71 1996 Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73 1996 Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92 1996 Nevill Francis Mott, physicist, dies at 90 1996 Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91 1996 Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81 1996 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83 1996 Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist, dies at 83 1996 Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88 1995 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84 1995 Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 1995 William A Fowler, U.S. nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83 1995 Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92 1994 Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71 1994 Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89 1994 Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies 1993 Professor Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80 1992 Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies 1992 Robert Morris Page, U.S. physicist (radar), dies at 88 1990 John Stewart Bell, Irish Physicist 1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 1989 William Shockley, American Physicist 1989 U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud" 1988 Luis W. Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at 77 1988 Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69 1988 Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89 1987 Walter H Brattain, U.S. physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85 1987 Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94 1986 Robert S Mulliken, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90 1984 Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1981 Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74 1980 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74 1976 Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74 1976 Werner Heisenberg, German Physicist 1975 John R Dunning, U.S. physicist, dies at 67 1974 Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91 1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82 1974 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76 1973 Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81 1973 Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 1973 Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer (Mount Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74 1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee 1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 1969 Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81 1968 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 1967 Robert J Van De Graaff, U.S. nuclear physicist, dies at 65 1966 Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77 1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 1964 Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist 1963 Brian Greene, American Physicist 1962 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77 1961 Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist 1960 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies 1960 Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82 1960 Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies 1960 Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57 1959 Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69 1958 Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies 1957 Christer Fuglesang, born in Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut, Mir backup 1957 Walther Bothe, German Physicist 1956 Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79 1955 Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany 1955 Albert Einstein, German U.S. physicist, dies 1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies 1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53 1953 Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85 1952 Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58 1952 Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57 1951 Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at 76 1951 John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies 1951 Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/U.S. physicist/meteorology, dies at 89 1950 Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist 1950 Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 1950 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges 1949 Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies 1947 Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies 1947 Gerd Binnig, born in Frankfurt, physicist, tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986 1947 Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82 1946 James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69 1945 David Norman Schramm, physicist 1945 Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63 1943 Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86 1942 Paul Horowitz, New York City, physicist, META project, Sloan Award 1971-3 1942 Stephen Hawking, English physicist, Black Holes and Baby Universes 1941 Paul C. W. Chu, China, physicist, superconductivity 1941 Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut, STS-9, 42, Soyuz TM-19 1941 Malcolm Longair, born in Dundee Scotland, astronomer, physicist, chairman of the Gemini Board, President, Royal Astronomical Society 1940 A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist 1940 Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel 1973 1937 Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, English physicist (Nobel 1908), dies 1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry 1934 Carl P G von Linde, German physicist (Linde-procede), dies at 92 1933 Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Netherlands physicist, dies at 53 1933 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986 1932 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa 1931 James Watson Cronin, nuclear physicist 1931 James Cronin, American Physicist 1931 Roger Penrose, English Physicist 1931 John Schrieffer, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 1931 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, U.S. physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78 1930 John Polkinghorne, British Physicist 1930 Jerome Isaac Friedman, American Physicist 1930 Leon Cooper, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 1929 Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks 1929 Rudolf Mossbauer, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1961 1928 Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64 1928 John S. Bell, Irish Physicist 1928 Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74 1928 Sam Edwards, physicist 1927 Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist 1927 Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 1967 1927 Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist and auto company executive 1927 Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 1926 Donald A Glaser, physicist, Nobel-1960 1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72 1926 Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist 1925 Simon van der Meer, Dutch Physicist 1925 Louis Cohen, physicist 1925 William Edgar Mitchell, physicist 1925 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 1925 Leo Esaki, Esaki Reona, Japan, physicist, Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973 1924 Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89 1923 Freeman Dyson, American Physicist 1923 Guiseppe Martelli, physicist 1923 Walter Kohn, Austrian Physicist 1923 Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85 1923 Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77 1923 Peter Fowler, physicist 1922 Chen Ning Yang, China, U.S. physicist/disproved parity, Nobel 1957 1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies 1922 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57 1922 Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975 1922 Nikolaj G. Bassov, born in Russia, atomic physicist, laser, Nobel 1964 1921 Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist 1921 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75 1921 Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist 1921 Jack Steinberger, American Physicist 1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75 1920 J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies 1920 Gordon Gould, American Physicist 1920 Owen Chamberlain, physicist/co-discoverer, antiproton, Nobel-1959 1919 John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 1919 Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist, dies at 70 1919 William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 1918 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist 1918 Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965 1918 Richard P. Feynman, American Physicist 1918 Frederick Reines, American Physicist 1918 Julian S Schwinger, U.S. physicist 1917 Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist, ultra centrifuge 1917 William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist, superconductivity 1917 Ilya Prigogine, Belgian Physicist 1916 Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA, Nobel 1962 1916 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78 1915 Charles Hard Townes, born in Greenville, South Carolina, physicist, developed lasers 1915 Clyde Wiegand, physicist 1915 Robert Hofstadter, U.S. atomic physicist 1914 James Van Allen, U.S. physicist, discovered Van Allen radiation belts 1914 Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies 1914 Alan Hodgkin, British physicist, Nobel 1963 1913 Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom 1912 Edward M Purcell, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1952 1912 Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist 1912 Carl F von Weiszacker, German physicist/philosopher 1912 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist 1911 Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy 1911 John Archibald Wheeler, born in Florida, American theoretical physicist, coined terms black hole, wormhole 1911 George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85 1911 Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy 1911 Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80 1911 Charles Frank, physicist 1911 Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58 1911 Polykarp Kusch, U.S., nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955 1910 William B Shockley, London, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956, racist 1910 William Shockley, American Physicist 1910 Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69 1909 William G Penney, British physicist, 1st British Atom Bomb 1909 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel 1962 1908 Hannes OG Alfven, Swedish physicist, Nobel 1970 1908 John Bardeen, U.S., physicist, transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972 1907 Kelvin of Largs, William Thomson, Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83 1907 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize 1907 John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 1907 J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist, atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963 1907 Rudolf Peieris, physicist 1907 Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist 1907 Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist, Nobel 1949 1906 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist 1906 Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker 1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, U.S. atomic physicist, Nobel 1963 1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies 1905 Felix Bloch, Swiss/U.S. nuclear physicist, Nobel 1952 1905 Nevill Francis Mott, physicist 1905 Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics 1905 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 Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64 1904 Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist, molecular structure-Nobel 1971 1904 Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970 1904 Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist 1904 Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970 1904 Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist 1904 Patrick Johnson, physicist 1904 Cornelis Jan Bakker, Dutch and U.S. nuclear physicist 1903 Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion, Nobel 1950 1903 George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83 1903 Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, 1st Rus nuclear bomb 1902 Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963 1902 Eugene Wigner, American Physicist 1902 Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933 1902 Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1902 Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956-transistor 1901 Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist, Mobility of Gaseous Ions 1901 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32 1901 Enrico Fermi, born in Rome, U.S. physicist, gone fission/fermium, Nobel-1938 1901 Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70 1901 Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen, physicist, Nobel 1901 Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69 1900 Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/U.S. physicist, Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945 1900 [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel 1935 1900 Dennis Gabor, Physicist 1898 Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer, Mount Wilson/Palomar 1898 Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist, Whom the God's Love 1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944 1898 William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist, textiles 1898 Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist 1897 Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948 1897 Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, neutron, Nobel 1935 1897 John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951 1897 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49 1896 Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies 1896 Robert Mulliken, U.S., chemist/physicist, Nobel 1966 1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays 1895 Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 1894 Hans [Henry] Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics 1894 Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist 1894 August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 1893 Harold C Urey, Indiana, physicist, Deuterium, Nobel 1934 1893 Harold C. Urey, Physicist 1892 Arthur H Compton, U.S. physicist, X-rays 1892 Edward V Appleton, English physicist, Appleton-layer 1892 Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist, Nobel 1929 1892 Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist, studied electrons 1892 Robert A. Watson-Watt, England, physicist, radar 1891 James Chadwick, English physicist, discovered neutron 1891 Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954 1891 Walther Bothe, German Physicist 1889 Balthasar van der Pol, physicist, Comparison of Van der Pol 1888 Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist, Nobel 1930 1888 Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies 1888 Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist, Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943 1887 Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86 1887 Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 1887 Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist 1887 Erwin Schrodinger, Austria, physicist, had a cat 1887 Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist, Nobel 1925 1886 Karl MG Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, rontgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924 1885 Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71 1885 Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics, Nobel 1922 1883 Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies 1883 Joseph AF Plateau, Belgian physicist (Blue Moon), dies 1883 Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist 1882 Walther Meissner, German physicist, Meissner effect 1882 Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954 1881 Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930 1881 Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist, radiologist 1880 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist, crystal 1880 Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Netherlands physicist, adiabates hypothesis 1879 James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48 1879 Owen Williams Richardson, born in England, physicist, Nobel 1928 1879 Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921 1879 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium 1879 Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect 1878 Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist, Protactinium 1878 Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist 1878 Wander J de Haas, Dutch physicist and son-in-law of Lorentz 1878 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1877 James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1876 Willem H Keesom, physicist, helium vast 1875 Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49 1875 Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist, father of aerodynamics 1874 Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist, Actinium 1874 Anders J engstrom, Swedish astronomer/physicist (e-unit), dies at 59 1874 Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist, Stark effect, Nobel 1919 1872 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78 1871 Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908 1870 Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion, Nobel 1926 1869 Charles Wilson, English physicist, Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel 1868 Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies 1868 Robert A. Millikan, U.S. physicist, photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923 1865 Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902 1865 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist 1865 Friedrich Paschen, German physicist 1864 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist, Nobel 1920 1863 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77 1862 Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/U.S. physicist/meteorology 1862 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 1859 Pierre Curie, France, physicist, Nobel 1903 1859 Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist, Nobel 1903 1858 Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918 1857 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast and receive radio waves 1856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906 1856 Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavia, physicist, developed alternating current 1855 Edwin H Hall, U.S. physicist, Hall effect 1853 D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist (chromosome), dies 1853 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, liquid helium, Nobel 1913 1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, born in Holland, physicist, Nobel 1902 1853 Christian Doppler, physicist, dies 1852 A[lbert] A. Michelson, Strelno Prussia, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1907 1850 Oliver Heaviside, London, physicist, predicted ionosphere 1850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies 1848 Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist 1847 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, 2-fasenmotor 1845 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist 1844 John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 1844 Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist, statistical mechanics 1842 James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist, Dewarfles/cordiet 1842 Carl PG von Linde, German engineer/physicist, Linde-procede 1841 John W. Rayleigh, England, physicist, Nobel 1904, Cambridge, 1908-14 1841 Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49 1840 Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist, Carl Zeiss Optics Company 1839 August A Kundt, German physicist, sound vibration, test of Kundt 1839 Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist 1838 Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist 1837 Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87 1837 John van der Waals, Hol, physicist, Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States 1836 Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies 1835 Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist, Stefan-Boltzmann law 1834 Georg H Quincke, German physicist, test of Quincke 1832 William Crookes, English chemist/physicist, Crookes-pipe, thallium 1832 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, Neumann-functions 1831 James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist, Treatise on Electricity 1831 James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist, electromagnetic theory 1830 Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist 1830 Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist, law of Raoult 1829 Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies 1827 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82 1826 George J Stoney, Irish physicist 1824 John Kerr, System physicist, electro-visually Kerr-effect 1824 Kelvin, William Thomson, British physicist, Kelvin Scale 1824 Gustav R. Kirchoff, born in Prussia, physicist, spectral analysis 1822 Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist, thermodynamics 1821 Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist 1821 Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1819 Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist, pendulum proved Earth rotates 1819 George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician, spectroscope 1818 James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy 1814 Anders Jonas engstrom, Sweden, physicist, spectroscope 1813 Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist, ozone 1810 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist 1810 Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies 1806 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70 1803 Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, Doppler effect 1802 Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist, dies at 77 1801 Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist, blinded - stared at Sun 25 seconds 1801 Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist, Plucker formulas 1801 Gustav T Fechner, Dr. Mises, German philosopher/physicist 1799 Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71 1799 Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56 1799 Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist/alpinist, dies at 58 1798 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 1798 Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist 1795 Ignac Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded 1794 Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer 1791 Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, law of Biot and Savart 1788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist 1787 George Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law 1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law 1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, born in Germany, physicist, studied Sun's spectrum 1787 Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 1786 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist 1786 D. Francois J. Arago, French astronomer, physicist, and politician 1781 David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor, kaleidoscope 1777 Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist, View of Chemical Law 1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and balloonist 1768 Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57 1766 John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter 1761 Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69 1753 Franz K Achard, German physicist 1753 Benjamin Thompson, physicist, Royal Institute of Great Britain 1750 Martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist, Homo Diluvii Testus 1743 Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist 1742 Georg C. Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, types of Lichtenberg 1742 Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist, dies at 53 1740 Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist 1737 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist/physicist 1736 Daniel G Fahrenheit, Prussian/Netherlands physicist (thermometer), dies at 50 1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, formulated Coulomb's Law 1731 Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist, discovered hydrogen 1728 Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist 1727 Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 1724 Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist 1711 Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist, philosopher, and astronomer 1705 Guillaume Amontons, French physicist, dies at 42 1692 Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist, Leyden jar 1688 Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist 1663 Guillaume Amontons, French physicist 1655 Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1653 Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist, Papiniaanse pot, steam machine 1643 Isaac Newton, born in Grantham, England, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer 1642 Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy 1639 John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68 1635 Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, physicist, Micrographia 1633 Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies 1627 Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author, experiments with color 1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer, Pascal 1618 Francesco M. Grimaldi, mathematician and physicist, light defraction 1617 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50 1571 John I Pontanus, physicist/historian, Amsterdam 1567 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect 1564 Galileo Galilei, born in Pisa, Italy, astronomer and physicist 1544 William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist, researcher into magnetism 1131 Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 1048 Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra |
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