Physics

Nikola Tesla, Physicist was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, Austo-Hungarian Empire, region of Croatia. Tesla studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873,…

Sir Joseph John Thomson, Physicist was born December 18, 1856, Cheetham Hill, near Manchester, England. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society…

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Physicist and Nobel laureate was born Sept. 21, 1853, Groningen, Netherlands. In 1870, Kamerlingh Onnes attended the University of Groningen. He studied…

Albert Abraham Michelson, Physicist was born December 19, 1852, Strelno, Prussia (now Strzelno, Poland). He spent his high school years in San Francisco in the…

Antoine Henri Becquerel, Physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity was born December 15, 1852, Paris, France. Becquerel joined the…

Karl Ferdinand Braun, Physicist, inventor, Nobel laureate in physics was born on June 6, 1850, in Fulda, Germany. Braun was born in Fulda, Germany, and…

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Physicist and engineer was born March 27, 1845, Lennep, Rhine Province, German Confederation. In 1862 he entered a technical school at Utrecht,…

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Physicist was born November 12, 1842, Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex, England. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in…

Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach, Physicist and Philosopher was born February 18, 1838, Chirlitz-Turas, Moravia, Brno, Austria-Hungary. As a philosopher of science, he was a…

Michael Faraday, Physicist was born September 22, 1791, Newington, Surrey, England. He was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.…

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi, Physicist and academic was born Oct. 31, 1711, Bologna, Papal States, Italy. She was privately educated and tutored for seven years…

Sir Isaac Newton, Physicist and Mathematician was Born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, England. With discoveries in optics, motion and mathematics, Newton developed the…