Physics

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…

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…