Physics

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,…

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…