Many famous
physicists of this century are found on the list of recipients of the
Nobel Prize in physics.
Famous early physicists:
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:
Pictures of famous physicists are collected in the [Emilio Segre Visual Archives].