Physicist Entries By Field

ACOUSTICS

Doppler, Christian
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig
Ferdinand von
Langevin, Paul
Mach, Ernst
Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara
Venkata

ASTRONOMY

Ångstrom, Anders Jonas
Archimedes
Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-
Louis
Foucault, Jean-Bernard-Léon
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Galilei, Galileo
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich
Hooke, Robert
Huygens, Christiaan
Newton, Sir Isaac

ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan
Gamow, George
Hawking, Stephen
Penzias, Arno Allan
Purcell, Edward Mills
Taylor, Joseph H., Jr.
Van Allen, James
Weinberg, Steven
Wheeler, John Archibald

ATOMIC PHYSICS

Blackett, Patrick Maynard
Stuart, Lord
Chu, Steven
Franck, James
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Langevin, Paul
Lenard, Philipp von
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Perrin, Jean-Baptiste
Rutherford, Ernest
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes
Wilhelm
Stark, Johannes
Stern, Otto
Thomson, Joseph John (J. J.)
Wilson, Charles Thomson
Rees
Zeeman, Pieter

BIOPHYSICS

Chu, Steven
Franck, James
Glaser, Donald Arthur
Purcell, Edward Mills

CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM

Ampère, André-Marie


Boltzmann, Ludwig

Cavendish, Henry

Compton, Arthur Holly

Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de

Einstein, Albert

Faraday, Michael

FitzGerald, George Francis

Foucault, Jean-Bernard-Léon

Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich

Henry, Joseph

Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf

Kelvin, Lord (William

Thomson)

Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert

Laue, Max Theodor Felix von

Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon

Maxwell, James Clerk

Ohm, Georg Simon

Ørsted, Hans Christian

Planck, Max Ernest Ludwig

Poynting, John Henry

Rayleigh, Lord (John William

Strutt)

Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad
Stefan, Josef
Tesla, Nikola
Thomson, Joseph John (J. J.)
Volta, Alessandro Guiseppe
Antonio Anastasio
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
Wien, Wilhelm (Carl Werner
Otto Fritz Franz)
Zeeman, Pieter

CLASSICAL MECHANICS

Archimedes
Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de
Foucault, Jean-Bernard-Léon
Galilei, Galileo
Hooke, Robert
Huygens, Christiaan
Mach, Ernst
Newton, Sir Isaac
Young, Thomas

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Alvarez, Luis W.
Bardeen, John
Kilby, Jack St. Clair
Tesla, Nikola

ELECTROSTATICS

Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de

GEOPHYSICS

Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil

GRAVITATION

Cavendish, Henry
Einstein, Albert
Hooke, Robert
Newton, Sir Isaac
Poynting, John Henry

HIGH PRESSURE AND HIGH TEMPERATURE PHYSICS

Bridgman, Percy Williams

HOLOGRAPHY

Gabor, Dennis

HYDROSTATICS AND HYDRODYNAMICS

Archimedes
Bernoulli, Daniel
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig
Ferdinand von
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Stokes, George Gabriel

INFORMATION THEORY

Gabor, Dennis

LASER SPECTROSCOPY

Bloembergen, Nicolaas
Schawlow, Arthur Leonard
Townes, Charles Hard

LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich
Landau, Lev Davidovich

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

Ampère, André-Marie
Archimedes
Bernoulli, Daniel
Dyson, Freeman
Galilei, Galileo
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich
Huygens, Christiaan
Langevin, Paul
Newton, Sir Isaac
Rydberg, Johannes Robert
Stokes, George Gabriel
Wigner, Eugene Paul

NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Chadwick, Sir James
Cockcroft, John Douglas
Fermi, Enrico
Gamow, George
Geiger, Hans Wilhelm
Glaser, Donald Arthur
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria
Gertrude
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Meitner, Lise
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Purcell, Edward Mills
Rutherford, Ernest
Sakharov, Andrei
Dmitriyevich
Segrè, Emilio Gino
Teller, Edward
Wigner, Eugene Paul
Wu, Chien-Shiung
Yang, Chen Ning

OPTICS

Doppler, Christian Johann
Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-
Louis
Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Fresnel, Augustin Jean
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig
Ferdinand von
Hooke, Robert
Huygens, Christiaan
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Mach, Ernst
Maxwell, James Clerk
Michelson, Albert Abraham
Newton, Sir Isaac
Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara
Venkata
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad
Snell, Willibrord
Stokes, George Gabriel

Townes, Charles Hard
Young, Thomas
Zeeman, Pieter

PARTICLE PHYSICS

Alvarez, Luis W.
Anderson, Carl David
Bhabha, Homi Jehangir
Blackett, Patrick Maynard
Stuart, Lord
Chadwick, Sir James
Cherenkov, Pavel
Alekseyevich
Compton, Arthur Holly
Davisson, Clinton Joseph
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Fermi, Enrico
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Fitch, Val Logsdon
Gell-Mann, Murray
Glaser, Donald Arthur
Glashow, Sheldon Lee
Lederman, Leon M.
Lee, Tsung-Dao
Mössbauer, Rudolf Ludwig
Ne’eman, Yuval
Pauli, Wolfgang
Ramsey, Norman F.
Reines, Frederick
Richter, Burton
Rubbia, Carlo
Salam, Abdus
Segrè, Emilio Gino
Ting, Samuel Chao Chung
Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro
Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison
Veltman, Martinus J. G.
Weinberg, Steven
Wilson, Charles Thomson
Rees
Wheeler, John Archibald
Yang, Chen Ning
Yukawa, Hideki

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Bridgman, Percy Williams
Einstein, Albert
Mach, Ernst

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Cavendish, Henry
Curie, Marie
Faraday, Michael
Franck, James
Goeppert-Mayer, Marie
Gertrude
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig
Ferdinand von
Nernst, Walther
Ørsted, Hans Christian
Perrin, Jean-Baptiste
Stern, Otto

PLASMA PHYSICS

Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta
Landau, Lev Davidovich

QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

Dyson, Freeman
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Glashow, Sheldon Lee
’t Hooft, Gerard
Kusch, Polykarp
Lamb, Eugene Willis Jr.
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Lenard, Philipp von
Ramsey, Norman F.
Salam, Abdus
Schwinger, Julian Seymour
Tomanaga, Sin-Itiro
Veltman, Martinus J. G.
Weinberg, Steven
Wheeler, John Archibald
Wigner, Eugene Paul

QUANTUM MECHANICS

Barkla, Charles Glover
Bloch, Felix
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Born, Max
Broglie, Louis-Victor-Pierre,
prince de
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Einstein, Albert
Franck, James
Heisenberg, Werner
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Landé, Alfred
Laue, Max Theodor Felix von
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Pauli, Wolfgang
Planck, Max Ernest Ludwig
Schrödinger, Erwin
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johann
Teller, Edward

RADIOACTIVITY

Becquerel, Antoine-Henri
Curie, Marie
Meitner, Lise
Rutherford, Ernest

RADIO ASTRONOMY

Penzias, Arno Allan
Taylor, Joseph H., Jr.

RELATIVITY

Einstein, Albert
Hawking, Stephen
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Laue, Max Theodor Felix von
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Taylor, Joseph H., Jr.
Wheeler, John Archibald

SOLID STATE AND CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

Alferov, Zhores Ivanovich
Anderson, Philip Warren

Bardeen, John
Barkla, Charles Glover
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Bloch, Felix
Born, Max
Einstein, Albert
Josephson, Brian David
Kilby, Jack St. Clair
Kroemer, Herbert
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Langevin, Paul
Laue, Max Theodor Felix von
Lenard, Philipp von
Mott, Sir Nevill Francis
Purcell, Edward Mills
Rabi, Isidor Isaac
Schrieffer, John Robert
Schockley, William Bradford
Van Vleck, John Housbrook

SPECTROSCOPY

Ångstrom, Anders Jonas
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara
Venkata
Rydberg, Johannes Robert

STATISTICAL MECHANICS

Bloch, Felix
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Einstein, Albert
Rayleigh, Lord (John William
Strutt)
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes
Wilhelm
Stark, Johannes

TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM

Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich

THERMODYNAMICS

Boltzmann, Ludwig
Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi
Clausius, Rudolf Julius
Emmanuel
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig
Ferdinand von
Joule, James Prescott
Kelvin, Lord (William
Thomson)
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Maxwell, James Clerk
Nernst, Walther
Rayleigh, Lord (John William
Strutt)
Stark, Johannes
Stefan, Josef
Wien, Wilhelm (Carl Werner
Warner Fritz Franz)

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