Physics

Owen Chamberlain, Physicist was born July 10, 1920, San Francisco, California, U.S. Chamberlain attended Dartmouth College (B.A., 1941) and the University of California at Berkeley…

Rosalind Elsie Franklin, Physicist was born in 25 July 1920 Notting Hill, London, England, United Kingdom. She went to Newnham College, Cambridge in 1938 and…

Charles Hard Townes, Physicist and inventor was born July 28, 1915, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. He earned his B.S./B.A. at Furman University. He completed work…

Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicist was born May 29, 1912, Liuhe, Jiangsu province, China. In 1929 Wu was admitted to the National Central University in Nanjing and…

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…