Physics

William Bradford Shockley Jr., Physicist and inventor was born February 13, 1910 Greater London, England, United Kingdom. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech…

John Bardeen, Physicist and electrical engineer was born on May 23, 1908, in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. Bardeen attended the University High School at Madison for…

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska, Physicist was born December 25, 1906, Heidelberg, Germany. He was educated at the Technical University of Munich from 1925 to 1927…

Carl David Anderson, Physicist was born Sept. 3, 1905, New York, U.S. He studied physics and engineering at Caltech (B.S., 1927); and received his Ph.D.…

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Physicist was born July 28, 1904 Voronezh Oblast, Russian Empire. He graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Voronezh State…

Walter Houser Brattain, Physicist was born Feb. 10, 1902, Amoy, China. He was an American scientist who, along with John Bardeen and William B. Shockley,…

Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Physicist and nuclear scientist was born August 8, 1901, Canton, South Dakota, U.S. He completed his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1922,…

Enrico Fermi, Physicist was born Sept. 29, 1901, Rome, Italy. Fermi graduated from high school in July 1918 and, at Amidei’s urging, applied to the…

Ukichiro Nakaya, Physicist and science essayist was born July 4, 1900 in Kaga, Ishikawa (Sea of Japan). He was inspired to study physics in high…

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Physicist was born 18 November 1897 London, England. In August 1914 on the outbreak of World War I Blackett was assigned…

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Physicist was born May 27, 1897, Todmorden, Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Todmorden Secondary School (1909–1914) and studied mathematics at…

Sir Charles Drummond Ellis, Physicist and scientific administrator was born 11 August 1895, Hampstead, is an area of London, England. He won a scholarship to…