Famous Physicists

The list Famous Physicists includes Stephen Hawking, James Hutton, Heiko Von der Leyen, Monte and John See, Jr.. The list consists of 5,224 members.

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Stephen Hawking

English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)

Overview: Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology ...

Date of birth: 8 January 1942

Date of death: 14 March 2018

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Web Summit Speaker 67T

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 87T

British relativity theorists 18T
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Albert Einstein

German-born physicist (1879–1955)

Overview: Albert Einstein ( EYEN-styne; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, universally acknowledged to be one of the two greatest physicists of all time, the other being Isaac ...

Date of birth: 14 March 1879

Date of death: 18 April 1955

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Jewish German physicists 43T

Recipients of Franklin Medal 114T

Anti-nationalists 18T
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James Hutton

Scottish geologist (1726–1797)

Overview: James Hutton FRSE (3 June O.S.1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician. Often referred to as the father of modern geology, he played ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1726

Date of death: 26 March 1797

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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18th-century British scientists 29T

Scottish agriculturalists 31T

British deists 28T
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Heiko Von der Leyen

German physician

Overview: Heiko Echter von der Leyen (born 2 June 1955) is a German physician, professor of medicine, aristocrat and the husband of politician Ursula von der Leyen. He is a member of the von der Leyen noble family ...

Date of birth: 2 June 1955

Age: 70

Nationality: German

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

Partner: Ursula von der Leyen (Married)

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German untitled nobility 383T

Stanford University School of Medicine faculty 133T

German cardiologists 15T
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Joseph Melville See

American ethnographer

Date of birth: 19 April 1937

Date of death: 19 March 2000

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Male

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20th-century British musicians 392T

20th-century American musicians 6,126T

American ethnographers 45T
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Mileva Marić

First wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)

Overview: Mileva Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић; 19 December 1875 – 4 August 1948), sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein (Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић-Ајнштајн, Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn), was a Serbian ...

Date of birth: 19 December 1875

Date of death: 4 August 1948

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Serbian

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Female

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Serbian women physicists 2T

Yugoslav physicists 9T

Serbian women scientists 11T
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Monte

American, Physicist

Date of birth: 1 June 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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Michio Kaku

American theoretical physicist

Overview: Michio Kaku (Japanese: ミチオカク or 賀来道雄, ; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics ...

Date of birth: 24 January 1947

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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American string theorists 65T

21st-century American male writers 6,154T

20th-century American male writers 8,941T
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Richard Feynman

American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)

Overview: Richard Phillips Feynman ForMemRS (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum ...

Date of birth: 11 May 1918

Date of death: 15 February 1988

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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American relativity theorists 53T

MIT Department of Physics alumni 211T

American nanotechnologists 45T
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Bernhard Caesar Einstein

American physicist

Overview: Bernhard Caesar Einstein (10 July 1930 – 30 September 2008) was a Swiss-American engineer, the son of Hans Albert Einstein. Of the three known biological grandchildren of Albert Einstein, all sons of Hans ...

Date of birth: 10 July 1930

Date of death: 30 September 2008

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American physicists 853T

20th-century American engineers 1,272T

Swiss emigrants to the United States 228T
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Walter Lewin

Dutch astrophysicist

Overview: Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin (born January 29, 1936) is a Dutch astrophysicist and former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lewin earned his doctorate in nuclear physics ...

Date of birth: 29 January 1936

Age: 89

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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20th-century Dutch scientists 114T

Dutch astrophysicists 5T

Dutch people of Jewish descent 49T
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M. G. K. Menon

Indian physicist

Overview: Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon FRS (28 August 1928 – 22 November 2016) also known as M. G. K. Menon, was a physicist and policy maker from India. He had a prominent role in the development of science ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1928

Date of death: 22 November 2016

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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21st-century Indian physicists 16T

Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in civil service 49T

Scientists from Mangalore 8T
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Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.

Physicist. Died of radiation poisoning.

Overview: Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (Armenian: Յարութիւն Գրիգոր Դաղլեան; May 4, 1921 – September 15, 1945) was an American physicist with the Manhattan Project, which designed and produced the atomic bombs that ...

Date of birth: 4 May 1921

Date of death: 15 September 1945

Age: 24 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Physicist

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People from Los Alamos, New Mexico 35T

Burials at Cedar Grove Cemetery (New London, Connecticut) 10T

Deaths from laboratory accidents 15T
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Wilhelm Röntgen

Physicist

Overview: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength ...

Date of birth: 27 March 1845

Date of death: 10 February 1923

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia 51T

Recipients of the Matteucci Medal 60T

X-ray pioneers 39T
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Georg Ohm

German physicist

Overview: Georg Simon Ohm (, 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German physicist and mathematician. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist A ...

Date of birth: 16 March 1789

Date of death: 6 July 1854

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Physicist

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Georg Ohm 2T

Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof 45T

Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art 457T
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Erwin Schrödinger

Physicist

Overview: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (, ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist who developed ...

Date of birth: 12 August 1887

Date of death: 4 January 1961

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Physicist

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People from Clontarf, Dublin 34T

Tuberculosis deaths in Austria 16T

Recipients of the Matteucci Medal 60T
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Alessandro Volta

Physicist

Overview: Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery ...

Date of birth: 18 February 1745

Date of death: 5 March 1827

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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Italian scientific instrument makers 18T

18th-century Italian scientists 28T

19th-century Italian scientists 33T
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Brian Cox

English physicist and musician (born 1968)

Overview: Brian Edward Cox CBE FRS (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and former musician who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester ...

Date of birth: 3 March 1968

Age: 57

Nationality: British

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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Physics education in the United Kingdom 25T

Advocates of the European Union 109T

Fellows of the Explorers Club 53T
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Marion Bahat

German, Physicist

Date of birth: 4 April 1960

Age: 65

Nationality: German

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Vitaly Komko

Ukrainian, Physicist

Date of birth: 11 June 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: Ukrainian

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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