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 1997 Death Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71 1996 Death Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73 1996 Death Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92 1996 Death Nevill Francis Mott, physicist, dies at 90 1996 Death Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91 1996 Death Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81 1996 Death Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83 1996 Death Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist, dies at 83 1996 Death Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88 1995 Death Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84 1995 Death Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 1995 Death William A Fowler, U.S. nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83 1995 Death Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92 1994 Death Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71 1994 Death Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89 1994 Death 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 1992 Death 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 1989 Death 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 1988 Death Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69 1988 Death 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 1987 Death 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 1976 Death 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 1974 Death James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82 1974 Death Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76 1973 Death Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81 1973 Death Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 1973 Death 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 1968 Death 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 1960 Death Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82 1960 Death Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies 1960 Death 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 1955 Death Albert Einstein, German U.S. physicist, dies 1954 Death Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies 1954 Death 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 1952 Death Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57 1951 Death Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at 76 1951 Death 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 1951 Death Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/U.S. physicist/meteorology, dies at 89 1950 Birthday Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist 1950 Birthday 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 1947 Death 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 1942 Birthday Stephen Hawking, English physicist, Black Holes and Baby Universes 1941 Birthday Paul C. W. Chu, China, physicist, superconductivity 1941 Birthday Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut, STS-9, 42, Soyuz TM-19 1941 Birthday Malcolm Longair, born in Dundee Scotland, astronomer, physicist, chairman of the Gemini Board, President, Royal Astronomical Society 1940 Birthday A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist 1940 Birthday 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 1931 Birthday James Cronin, American Physicist 1931 Birthday Roger Penrose, English Physicist 1931 Birthday 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 1930 Birthday Jerome Isaac Friedman, American Physicist 1930 Birthday Leon Cooper, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 1929 Birthday Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks 1929 Birthday 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 1928 Death Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74 1928 Birthday Sam Edwards, physicist 1927 Birthday Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist 1927 Birthday Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 1967 1927 Birthday Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist and auto company executive 1927 Birthday 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 1926 Birthday Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist 1925 Birthday Simon van der Meer, Dutch Physicist 1925 Birthday Louis Cohen, physicist 1925 Birthday William Edgar Mitchell, physicist 1925 Death Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 1925 Birthday 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 1923 Birthday Guiseppe Martelli, physicist 1923 Birthday Walter Kohn, Austrian Physicist 1923 Death Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85 1923 Death Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77 1923 Birthday 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 1922 Death Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57 1922 Birthday Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975 1922 Birthday 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 1921 Birthday Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist 1921 Birthday Jack Steinberger, American Physicist 1921 Birthday 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 1920 Birthday Owen Chamberlain, physicist/co-discoverer, antiproton, Nobel-1959 1919 Death John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 1919 Death Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 1919 Death Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist, dies at 70 1919 Death William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 1918 Birthday Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist 1918 Birthday Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965 1918 Birthday Richard P. Feynman, American Physicist 1918 Birthday Frederick Reines, American Physicist 1918 Birthday Julian S Schwinger, U.S. physicist 1917 Birthday Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist, ultra centrifuge 1917 Birthday William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist, superconductivity 1917 Birthday 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 1915 Birthday Clyde Wiegand, physicist 1915 Birthday 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 1914 Birthday 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 1912 Birthday Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist 1912 Birthday Carl F von Weiszacker, German physicist/philosopher 1912 Birthday Alexander Langsdorf, physicist 1911 Birthday Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy 1911 Birthday John Archibald Wheeler, born in Florida, American theoretical physicist, coined terms black hole, wormhole 1911 Death George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85 1911 Birthday Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy 1911 Death Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80 1911 Birthday Charles Frank, physicist 1911 Death Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58 1911 Birthday Polykarp Kusch, U.S., nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955 1910 Birthday William B Shockley, London, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956, racist 1910 Birthday 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 1909 Birthday Lev D Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel 1962 1908 Birthday Hannes OG Alfven, Swedish physicist, Nobel 1970 1908 Birthday 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 1907 Death John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 1907 Birthday J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist, atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963 1907 Birthday Rudolf Peieris, physicist 1907 Birthday Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist 1907 Birthday Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist, Nobel 1949 1906 Birthday Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist 1906 Birthday Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker 1906 Birthday 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 1905 Birthday Nevill Francis Mott, physicist 1905 Birthday Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics 1905 Birthday 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 1904 Birthday Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970 1904 Birthday Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist 1904 Birthday Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970 1904 Birthday Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist 1904 Birthday Patrick Johnson, physicist 1904 Birthday 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 1903 Birthday Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, 1st Rus nuclear bomb 1902 Birthday Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963 1902 Birthday Eugene Wigner, American Physicist 1902 Birthday Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933 1902 Birthday Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1902 Birthday Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956-transistor 1901 Birthday Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist, Mobility of Gaseous Ions 1901 Birthday Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32 1901 Birthday 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 1901 Birthday Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen, physicist, Nobel 1901 Death Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69 1900 Birthday Dennis Gabor, Physicist 1900 Birthday Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/U.S. physicist, Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945 1900 Birthday [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel 1935 1898 Birthday Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer, Mount Wilson/Palomar 1898 Birthday Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist, Whom the God's Love 1898 Birthday Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944 1898 Birthday William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist, textiles 1898 Birthday Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist 1897 Birthday Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948 1897 Birthday Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, neutron, Nobel 1935 1897 Birthday 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 1894 Death August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 1893 Birthday Harold C Urey, Indiana, physicist, Deuterium, Nobel 1934 1893 Birthday Harold C. Urey, Physicist 1892 Birthday Arthur H Compton, U.S. physicist, X-rays 1892 Birthday Edward V Appleton, English physicist, Appleton-layer 1892 Birthday Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist, Nobel 1929 1892 Birthday Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist, studied electrons 1892 Birthday Robert A. Watson-Watt, England, physicist, radar 1891 Birthday James Chadwick, English physicist, discovered neutron 1891 Birthday Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954 1891 Birthday 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 1888 Birthday Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist, Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943 1887 Death Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86 1887 Death Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 1887 Birthday Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist 1887 Birthday Erwin Schrodinger, Austria, physicist, had a cat 1887 Birthday 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 1883 Death Joseph AF Plateau, Belgian physicist (Blue Moon), dies 1883 Birthday Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist 1882 Birthday Walther Meissner, German physicist, Meissner effect 1882 Birthday Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954 1881 Birthday Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930 1881 Birthday Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist, radiologist 1880 Birthday Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist, crystal 1880 Birthday 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 1879 Birthday Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921 1879 Birthday Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium 1879 Birthday Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect 1878 Birthday Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist, Protactinium 1878 Birthday Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist 1878 Birthday 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 1874 Birthday 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 1865 Birthday Heinrich Rubens, German physicist 1865 Birthday 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 1859 Birthday 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 1856 Birthday 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 1853 Birthday Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, born in Holland, physicist, Nobel 1902 1853 Death 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 1842 Birthday 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 1839 Birthday 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 1832 Birthday Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, Neumann-functions 1831 Birthday James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist, Treatise on Electricity 1831 Birthday James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist, electromagnetic theory 1830 Birthday Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist 1830 Birthday 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 1824 Birthday Kelvin, William Thomson, British physicist, Kelvin Scale 1824 Birthday 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 1819 Birthday 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 1801 Birthday Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist, Plucker formulas 1801 Birthday Gustav T Fechner, Dr. Mises, German philosopher/physicist 1799 Death Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71 1799 Death Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56 1799 Death 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 1787 Birthday Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law 1787 Birthday 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 1786 Birthday 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 1753 Birthday 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
