Physics

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,…

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…