Category: Physicists

Categories: Scientists | Occupations by Name

Landing category for profiles of persons associated with this occupation.

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Meghnad Saha 06 Oct 1893 Shaoratoli, Dhaka, West Bengal, India - 16 Feb 1956

Andrei Sakharov 21 May 1921 Moscow, Moscow Uyezd, Moscow, Russian Empire - 14 Dec 1989

Benjamin Scherr 30 Mar 1924 District of Columbia, United States - 21 Aug 2018

Alfred Schild 07 Sep 1921 Istanbul, Turkey - 24 May 1977

Jens Schjelderup abt 1510 Skjellerup, Fyn, Danmark - 1582

Theodor Wilhelm (Schmidt) Retz-Schmidt 13 Oct 1923 Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway - 03 Apr 2020

Erwin Schrödinger 12 Aug 1887 Wien, Österreich - 04 Jan 1961

Karl Siegmund Schwarzschild 09 Oct 1873 Oberrad, Stadtkreis Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Deutsches Reich - 11 May 1916

Julian Schwinger 12 Feb 1918 New York, New York, New York, USA - 16 Jul 1994

Dennis Sciama 18 Nov 1926 Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - 18 Dec 1999

Thomas Johann Seebeck 09 Apr 1770 Reval, Russland - 10 Dec 1831

Emilio Segrè 01 Feb 1905 Tivoli, Roma, Lazio, Italy - 22 Apr 1989

Gordon Shrum 14 Jan 1896 Gainsborough, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada - 20 Jun 1985

Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn 20 Apr 1918 Lund, Skåne, Sverige - 20 Jul 2007

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn 03 Dec 1886 Örebro, Örebro län, Sverige - 26 Sep 1978

Maria (Skłodowska) Curie 07 Nov 1867 Warszawa, Warszawskie, Polska - 04 Jul 1934

Harald Soleng 1960s 2939

Wilhelm Arnold Johannes Sommerfeld 05 Dec 1868 Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Preußen, Norddeutscher Bund - 26 Apr 1951

Johannes Stark 15 Apr 1874 Schickenhof, German Empire - 21 Jun 1957

Josef Stefan 24 Mar 1835 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Carinthia, Austria - 07 Jan 1893

Aurel Stodola 10 May 1859 Liptovský Mikuláš, Kingdom of Hungary - 25 Dec 1942

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Edith Stoney 06 Jan 1869 Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland - 25 Jun 1938

John Strutt 12 Nov 1842 Maldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom - 30 Jun 1919

William Sturgeon 23 May 1783 Whittington, Lancashire, England - 04 Dec 1850

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Julius Tabin 08 Nov 1919 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States - 25 Aug 2012

Peter Tait 28 Apr 1831 Dalkeith, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 04 Jul 1901

Geoffrey Taylor 07 Mar 1886 St. John's Wood, London, England - 27 Jun 1975

Ede Teller 15 Jan 1908 Budapest, Austria-Hungary - 09 Sep 2003

Helen (Thom) Edwards 27 May 1936 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States - 21 Jun 2016

Benjamin Thompson 26 Mar 1753 Woburn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay - 21 Aug 1814

Silvanus Phillips Thompson 19 Jun 1851 York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - 12 Jun 1916

David Thomson 1960s 19502

George Thomson 03 May 1892 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England - 10 Sep 1975

Joseph Thomson 18 Dec 1856 Manchester, Lancashire, England - 30 Aug 1940

Allen Richard Tobin 29 Feb 1944 Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States - 09 Feb 2018

August Toepler 07 Sep 1836 Brühl, Schweich, Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - 06 Mar 1912

Evangelista Torricelli 15 Oct 1608 Roma, Lazio, Italy - 25 Oct 1647

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George Uhlenbeck 06 Dec 1900 Batavia, Dutch East Indies - 31 Oct 1988

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Antonius van den Broek 04 May 1870 Zoetermeer, South Holland, Netherlands - 25 Oct 1926

Balthasar van der Pol 27 Jan 1889 Utrecht, Netherlands - 06 Oct 1959

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Johannes Diderik van der Waals 23 Nov 1837 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland - 08 Mar 1923

Ewoud van Everdingen 26 Feb 1873 Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland - 17 Jul 1955

John Van Vleck 13 Mar 1899 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States - 27 Oct 1980

Jules Verschaffelt 27 Jan 1870 Belgium - 22 Dec 1955

Otto von Baeyer 12 Sep 1877 Reichenhall, Berchtesgadener Land, Bayern, Deutsches Reich - 15 Aug 1946

Philipp von Jolly 26 Sep 1809 Mannheim, Germany - 24 Dec 1884

Philipp Eduard Anton (von Lenard) Lenard 07 Jun 1862 Pressburg (now Bratislava), Hungary (now Slovakia) - 20 May 1947

János von Neumann 28 Dec 1903 Budapest, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Hungary - 08 Feb 1957

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Wilhelm Weber 24 Oct 1804 Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Saxony, Germany - 23 Jun 1891

Steven Weinberg 03 May 1933 New York City, New York, United States - 23 Jul 2021

John Wheeler 09 Jul 1911 Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA - 13 Apr 2008

Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien 13 Jan 1864 Gaffken, Fischhausen, Ostpreußen, Preußen, Deutscher Bund - 30 Aug 1928

Eugene Wigner 17 Nov 1902 Budapest, Austria-Hungary - 01 Jan 1995

Charles Wilson 14 Feb 1869 Glencorse, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 15 Nov 1959

Robert Wilson 1930s

Charles Wynn-Williams 05 Mar 1903 Uplands, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom - 30 Aug 1979

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Giuseppe Zamboni 01 Jun 1776 Italy - 25 Jul 1846

Pieter Zeeman 25 May 1865 Zonnemaire, Zeeland, Nederland - 09 Oct 1943

Frits Zernike 16 Jul 1888 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland - 10 Mar 1966

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