Famous Physicists

• Avogadro, Amedeo

  The guy they named Avogadro's Number after

• Bohr, Niels

  Danish atomic physicist who won 1922's Nobel Prize

• Boyle, Robert

  17th century chemist who came up with Boyle's law

• Chu, Steven

  Secretary of Energy under Barack Obama

• Einstein, Albert

  Creator of the theory of relativity

• Faraday, Michael

  Inventor of the first dynamo

• Fermi, Enrico

  Italian-American pioneer in nuclear fission

• Feynman, Richard

  The Nobel-winning author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

• Fuchs, Klaus

  The physicist who gave secrets to the Soviets in WWII

• Gilbert, William

  The guy who figured out magnetism and electricity

• Hawking, Stephen

  The author of A Brief History of Time

• Higgs, Peter Ware

  The Nobel-winning physicist behind the Higgs boson

• Hooke, Robert

  The author of 1665's Micrographia

• Lawrence, Ernest O.

  Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the cyclotron

• Mach, Ernst

  The guy mach speed is named for

• Maxwell, James Clerk

  The physicist who came up with the theory of electromagnetism

• Planck, Max

  The German physicist who originated quantum theory

• Richter, Charles F.

   The seismologist who created the earthquake scale

• Rutherford, Ernest

  The New Zealand physicist who split the atom

• Schrödinger, Erwin

  Creator of the Schrödinger's Cat paradox

• Teller, Edward

  "The Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"

• Van Allen, James

  Cosmic ray expert who found the Van Allen radiation belts

• Volta, Alessandro

  The Italian who built the first battery

• Von Braun, Wernher

  Ex-Nazi rocket scientist and father of the U.S. space program

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