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Physicist Biographies
Every archived life recorded as physicist, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Early Modern era
Antoine Lavoisier
August 26, 1743 – May 8, 1794
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Early Modern era
John Dalton
September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
Early Modern era
Amedeo Avogadro
August 9, 1776 – July 9, 1856
Italian scientist
Early Modern era
Humphry Davy
December 17, 1778 – May 29, 1829
British chemist
Modern era
Dmitri Mendeleev
January 27, 1834 – January 20, 1907
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Modern era
Fritz Haber
December 9, 1868 – January 29, 1934
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
Modern era
Linus Pauling
February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994
American scientist (1901–1994)
Early Modern era
Anders Celsius
November 27, 1701 – April 25, 1744
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
Early Modern era
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
May 24, 1686 – September 16, 1736
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
Modern era
Francis Crick
June 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Early Modern era
James Watt
January 19, 1736 – August 25, 1819
British engineer (1736–1819)
Early Modern era
Samuel Morse
April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872
American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
Modern era
Alexander Graham Bell
March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
Modern era
Guglielmo Marconi
April 25, 1874 – July 20, 1937
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
Modern era
John Logie Baird
August 13, 1888 – June 14, 1946
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
Modern era
Wernher von Braun
March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
Contemporary era
Tim Berners-Lee
b. June 8, 1955
English computer scientist (born 1955)
Early Modern era
René Descartes
March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
Early Modern era
Immanuel Kant
April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804
German philosopher of the categorical imperative and human reason
Early Modern era
Christopher Wren
October 20, 1632 – March 8, 1723
English architect (1632–1723)
Contemporary era
Sally Ride
May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
Contemporary era
Mae Jemison
b. October 17, 1956
American doctor and NASA astronaut
Modern era
Akio Morita
January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999
Japanese businessman (1921-1999)
Contemporary era
Pervez Hoodbhoy
b. July 11, 1950
Pakistani nuclear physicist
Tariq Aziz (television host)
Historical figure
Modern era
Munir Ahmad Khan
May 20, 1926 – April 22, 1999
Pakistani physicist
Modern era
Samar Mubarakmand
b. September 17, 1942
Pakistani physicist
Medieval era
William of Ockham
1285 – April 9, 1349
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
Medieval era
Roger Bacon
1220 – 1292
English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
Medieval era
Witelo
1230 – 1275
Polish-German scholar
Medieval era
Borzuya
c. 500 CE – c. 600 CE
Persian scientist
Modern era
Josiah
February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903
American scientist (1839–1903)
Ancient era
Hero of Alexandria
10 CE – 75 CE
Ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
Modern era
Anna Mani
August 23, 1918 – August 16, 2001
Indian meteorologist
Modern era
K. S. Krishnan
December 4, 1898 – June 14, 1961
Indian physicist (1898-1961)
Modern era
Meghnad Saha
October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956
Bengali astrophysicist (1893–1956)
Modern era
G. N. Ramachandran
October 8, 1922 – April 7, 2001
Indian scientist (1922-2001)
Modern era
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
June 29, 1893 – June 28, 1972
Indian scientist and statistician (1893–1972)
Modern era
Riazuddin
November 10, 1930 – September 9, 2013
Pakistani nuclear physicist (1930–2013)
Ancient era
Anaxagoras
500 BCE – 428 BCE
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
Early Modern era
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
Early Modern era
Evangelista Torricelli
October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647
Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)
Early Modern era
Daniel Bernoulli
February 8, 1700 – March 17, 1782
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
Early Modern era
John Napier
February 1, 1550 – April 4, 1617
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
Early Modern era
Luigi Galvani
September 9, 1737 – December 4, 1798
Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
Early Modern era
Pierre-Simon Laplace
March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
Early Modern era
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
Early Modern era
Joseph Fourier
March 21, 1768 – May 16, 1830
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
Early Modern era
Sophie Germain
April 1, 1776 – June 27, 1831
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
Modern era
Henri Poincare
April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
Modern era
Hendrik Lorentz
July 18, 1853 – February 4, 1928
Dutch physicist (1853–1928)
Modern era
Albert A. Michelson
December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931
American physicist (1852–1931)
Modern era
Robert Millikan
March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953
American physicist (1868–1953)
Modern era
Arthur Eddington
December 28, 1882 – November 22, 1944
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
Modern era
Ernst Mach
February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916
Austrian physicist (1838–1916)
Modern era
Gustav Kirchhoff
March 12, 1824 – October 17, 1887
German physicist (1824–1887)
Modern era
Leon Foucault
September 18, 1819 – February 11, 1868
French physicist (1819–1868)
Early Modern era
Thomas Young
June 13, 1773 – May 10, 1829
English polymath (1773-1829)
Modern era
Hans Bethe
July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005
German-American nuclear physicist
Modern era
Leo Szilard
February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)