Physics

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…

Galileo Galilei, Physicist was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. He was also an Italian astronomer, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a…

Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini, Physicist in Persia was born 11th century. He was a Muslim astronomer of Greek ethnicity from Merv, then in the Khorasan province…

Al-Biruni, Physicist was born born Sept. 4, 973 ce, Khwārezm, Khorāsān (now in Uzbekistan). He is regarded as one of the greatest scholars of the…