Physicists

Many famous physicists of this century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Famous early physicists:

• Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564-1642)
• [Evangelista Torricelli]? (Italy, 1608-1647)
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (Danzig,Prussia 1686-1736)

Famous physicists of the 18th century:

• [Daniel Bernoulli]? (Germany 1700-1782)
• [Henry Cavendish]? (1731-1810)
• [Charles Augustin de Coulomb]? (France, 1736-1806)
• [Jean-Lerond d'Alembert]? (1717-1783)
• Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Famous physicists of the 19th century:

• [Ernst Abbe]? (Germany, 1840-1905)
• Andre Marie Ampere (France, 1775-1836)
• Anders Jonas Angstrom (Sweden, 1814-1874)
• [Ludwig Boltzmann]? (Austria, 1844-1906)
• David Brewster (Scotland, 1781-1868)
• Marie Curie (France)
• [Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot]? (France, 1796-1832)
• Michael Faraday (Britain, 1791-1867)
• [Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier]? (France, 1768-1830)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel (France, 1788-1827)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (Germany, 1857-1894)
• James Maxwell (1831-1879)
• Hans Christian Ørsted (Denmark, 1777-1851)
• J.J. Thomson
• William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

Famous physicists of the 20th century:

• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (Britain, 1902-1984)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976)
• Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
• Stephen Hawking (1942- )
• Enrico Fermi (Italy, 1901-1954)
• Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
• Murray Gell-Mann (1929- )
• Irving Langmuir (1851-1957)
• [Robert Oppenheimer]? (1904-1967)
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (Vienna, 1900-1958)
• Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
• Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
• Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
• John von Neumann (1903-1957)
• Eugene Wigner (1902-1993)
• [Fritjof Capra]?

• Freeman Dyson (Need to add dates & place in list)

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Pictures of famous physicists are collected in the [Emilio Segre Visual Archives].