Physics

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,…

Robert Andrews Millikan, Physicist was born March 22, 1868, Morrison, Illinois, U.S. He was graduated from Oberlin College in 1891 and obtained his doctorate at…

Marie Skłodowska Curie, Physicist and chemist was born in Warsaw in modern-day Poland on November 7, 1867. She used her spare time to study, reading…

William Henry Bragg, Physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman was born July 2, 1862, Wigton, Cumberland, England. He was educated at the Old Grammar School…

Jagadish Chandra Bose, Physicist was born November 30, 1858, Mymensingh, Bengal, India (now in Bangladesh). He was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist,…