Physics

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…

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Physicist and Nobel laureate was born June 26 [July 8, New Style], 1894, Kronshtadt, Russian Empire. He graduated from the Petrograd Polytechnical…

Sir James Chadwick, Physicist was born October 20, 1891, Manchester, England. Chadwick graduated from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1911, where he studied under…

Sir William Lawrence Bragg, Physicist was born March 31, 1890, Adelaide, South Australia. Bragg went to the University of Adelaide at age 16 to study…

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Physicist was born November 7, 1888, Trichinopoly, India. In 1902, Raman joined Presidency College in Madras where his father was a…

Clinton Joseph Davisson, Physicist was born Oct. 22, 1881, Bloomington, Ill., U.S. He entered the University of Chicago on scholarship. Upon the recommendation of Robert…

Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Physicist was born Oct. 9, 1879, Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz, German. In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics,…

Lise Meitner, Physicist was born on November 7, 1878, in Vienna, Austria. She worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner studied physics and went on…

Ernest Rutherford, Physicist was born August 30, 1871, in Spring Grove, New Zealand. At the age of 10, Rutherford was handed his first science book,…