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# Famous Physicists

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- [Michael Faraday](https://famousphysicists.org/michael-faraday/) - Born: Sep 22, 1791 in Newington Butts, England Died: Aug 25, 1867 (at age 75) in Hampton Court, Middlesex, England Nationality: British Famous For: Faraday's law of induction, Electrochemistry, Faraday effect, Faraday cage, Faraday constant, Faraday cup, and other theories of physics Awards: Royal Medal (1835 and 1846), Copley Medal (1832 and 1838) and Rumford
- [Erwin Schrodinger](https://famousphysicists.org/erwin-schrodinger/) - Born: Aug 12, 1887 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary Died: Jan 4, 1961 (at age 73) in Vienna, Austria Nationality: Austrian Famous For: Schrodinger equation, Schrodinger's cat, Schrodinger method, Schrodinger functional, Schrodinger group, Schrodinger picture, Schrodinger-Newton equations, Schrodinger field, Rayleigh-Schrodinger perturbation, Schrodinger logics and Cat state Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1933) and Max Planck Medal (1937)
- [Werner Heisenberg](https://famousphysicists.org/werner-heisenberg/) - Born: Dec 5, 1901 in Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany Died: Feb 1, 1976 (at age 74) in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany Nationality: German Famous For: Uncertainty Principle Heisenberg cut, Heisenberg's entryway to matrix mechanics, Heisenberg ferromagnet, Heisenberg group, Heisenberg limit, Heisenberg's microscope, Heisenberg model (classical), Heisenberg model (quantum), Heisenberg picture, Matrix mechanics, Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian, Kramers-Heisenberg formula,
- [William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)](https://famousphysicists.org/william-thomson-lord-kelvin/) - Born: Jun 26, 1824 in Belfast, Ireland Died: Dec 17, 1907 (at age 83) in Largs, Scotland Nationality: British Famous For: Absolute Zero, Joule–Thomson effect, Thomson effect (thermoelectric), Mirror galvanometer, Siphon recorder, Kelvin material, Kelvin water dropper, Kelvin wave, Kelvin–Helmholtz instability, and many others Awards: Smith's Prize, Royal Medal and Copley Medal William Thomson, 1st
- [James Chadwick](https://famousphysicists.org/james-chadwick/) - Born: Oct 20, 1891 in Bollington, Cheshire, England Died: Jul 24, 1974 (at age 82) in Cambridge, England Nationality: English Famous For: Discovery of the neutron and Manhattan Project Awards: Hughes Medal (1932), Nobel Prize in Physics (1935), Knight Bachelor (1945), Copley Medal (1950), Franklin Medal (1951) and Companion of Honour (1970) James Chadwick was
- [Ernest Rutherford](https://famousphysicists.org/ernest-rutherford/) - Born: Aug 30, 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand Died: Oct 19, 1937 (at age 66) in Cambridge, England, UK Nationality: British, New Zealand Famous For: Father of nuclear physics, Rutherford model, Rutherford scattering, Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, Discovery of proton, Rutherford (unit) and Coining the term 'artificial disintegration' Awards: Rumford Medal (1905), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- [Robert Hooke](https://famousphysicists.org/robert-hooke/) - Born: Jul 28 (O.S Jul 18), 1635 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England Died: Mar 3, 1703 (at age 67) in London, England Nationality: English Famous For: Hooke's law and Microscopy applied the word 'cell' He was a genius on the level of Isaac Newton, and some have called him "the Leonardo da Vinci of
- [J.J. Thomson](https://famousphysicists.org/j-j-thomson/) - Born: Dec 18, 1856 in Manchester, Lancashire, UK Died: Aug 30, 1940 (at age 83) in Cambridge, UK Nationality: British Famous For: Plum pudding model, Discovery of electron, Discovery of isotopes, Mass spectrometer invention, First m/e measurement, Proposed first waveguide, Thomson scattering, Thomson problem, Coining term 'delta ray', Coining term 'epsilon radiation' and the Thomson
- [Isaac Newton](https://famousphysicists.org/isaac-newton/) - Born: Dec 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England Died: Mar 20, 1727 (at age 84) in Kensington, Middlesex, England, Great Britain Nationality: English (later British) Famous For: Newtonian mechanics, Principia Newton's method, Universal gravitation, Optics Binomial series, Infinitesimal calculus Isaac Newton is considered one of the greatest scientists and physicists who ever lived. Newton invented
- [Stephen Hawking](https://famousphysicists.org/stephen-hawking/) - Born: Jan 8, 1942 in Oxford, England Nationality: British Famous For: black hole singularity theorems, Hawking radiation, and A Brief History of Time Awards: Albert Einstein Award (1978), Wolf Prize (1988), Prince of Asturias Award (1989), Copley, Medal (2006), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009) and Special Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) Stephen Hawking was born on
- [Richard Feynman](https://famousphysicists.org/richard-feynman/) - Born: May 11, 1918 in Manhattan, New York Died: Feb 15, 1988 (at age 69) in Los Angeles, California Nationality: American Famous For: Acoustic wave equation, Bethe–Feynman formula, Feynman checkerboard, Feynman diagrams, Feynman gauge, Feynman–Kac formula, Feynman Long Division Puzzles, Feynman parametrization, and many others Awards: Albert Einstein Award (1954), E. O. Lawrence Award (1962),
- [Nikola Tesla](https://famousphysicists.org/nikola-tesla/) - Born: Jul 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia) Died: Jan 7, 1943 (at age 86) in New York City, New York, USA Nationality:Serbian, American Famous For: Alternating current, Tesla coil, Tesla principle, Arc light systems, Bifilar coil, Teleforce, Electric power transmission, Electrogravitics, "High" frequency alternator, Induction motor, Lightning rods, and many others Awards:
- [Niels Bohr](https://famousphysicists.org/niels-bohr/) - Born: Oct 7, 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark Died: Nov 18, 1962 (at age 77) in Copenhagen, Denmark Nationality: Danish Famous For: Electron configuration, Copenhagen interpretation, Complementarity, Atomic theory, Aufbau principle, Bohr model, Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization, Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem, Sommerfeld–Bohr theory, BKS theory, and many others Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1922), Franklin Medal (1926), Order of
- [Max Planck](https://famousphysicists.org/max-planck/) - Born: Apr 23, 1858 in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein Died: Oct 4, 1947 (at age 89) in Gottingen, Lower Saxony, Germany Nationality: German Famous For: Planck constant, Planck postulate and Planck's law of black body radiation Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1918) and Goethe Prize (1945) Max Planck was a famous theoretical physicist who was
- [James Clerk Maxwell](https://famousphysicists.org/james-clerk-maxwell/) - Born: Jun 13, 1831 in Edinburgh, Scotland Died: Nov 5, 1879 (at age 48) in Cambridge, England Nationality: Scottish Famous For: Maxwell's theorem, Maxwell's equations, Maxwell distribution, Maxwell's demon, Maxwell's discs, Maxwell speed distribution, and others Awards: Smith's Prize (1854), Adams Prize (1857), Rumford Medal (1860) and Keith Prize (1869–71) James Clerk Maxwell was born
- [Galileo Galilei](https://famousphysicists.org/galileo-galilei/) - Born: Feb 15, 1564 in Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy Died: Jan 8, 1642 (at age 77) in Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy Nationality: Italian (Tuscan) Famous For: Kinematics, Dynamics, Telescopic observational astronomy and Heliocentrism Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, where the leaning tower is located, in Italy in 1564. When Galileo was
- [Alessandro Volta](https://famousphysicists.org/alessandro-volta/) - Born: Feb 18, 1745 in Como, Duchy of Milan (present-day Italy) Died: Mar 5, 1827 (at age 82) in Como, Lombardy-Venetia(present-day Italy) Nationality: Italian Famous For: Invention of the electric cell, Discovery of methane, Volt, Voltage and Voltmeter Alessandro Volta was an Italian physicist. He was especially active in pioneering the scientific study of electricity,
- [Albert Einstein](https://famousphysicists.org/albert-einstein/) - Born: Mar 14, 1879 in Ulm, Kingdom of Wurttemberg, German Empire Died: Apr 18, 1955 (at age 76) in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Nationality: German, Austrian, Swiss, American Famous For: Photoelectric effect, General relativity and special relativity, Mass-energy equivalence, Theory of Brownian Motion, Bose–Einstein statistics, Einstein field equations, Bose–Einstein correlations, Bose-Einstein condensate, Unified Field Theory
- [Marie Curie](https://famousphysicists.org/marie-curie/) - Born: Nov 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of Russian Empire Died: Jul 4, 1934 (at age 66) in Passy, Haute-Savoie, France Nationality: French, Polish Famous For: Radioactivity, polonium, radium Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), Davy Medal (1903), Matteucci Medal (1904) and Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) Marie Curie was born
- [Guglielmo Marconi](https://famousphysicists.org/guglielmo-marconi/) - Born: Apr 25, 1874 in Palazzo Marescalchi, Bologna, Italy Died: Jul 20, 1937 (at age 63) in Rome, Italy Nationality: Italian Famous For: Radio Awards: Nobel Prize for Physics (1909) Guglielmo Marconi was born on April 25th, 1874 in Bologna, Italy. His father was an affluent Italian land owner named Giuseppe Marconi. Marconi was first

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