Today in Physicist History (Part 2)
Sub-Topics: Andrei Sakharov - Galileo Galilei - Isaac Newton - Nikola Tesla
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Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 369
1834-01-07 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
1834-11-19 - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (test of Quincke)
1835-03-24 - Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
1836-09-07 - August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912)
1837-11-23 - John van der Waals, Hol, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States)
1838-02-18 - Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist
1839-08-10 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1839-11-18 - August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt)
1840-01-23 - Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)
1841-11-12 - John W Rayleigh, England, physicist (Nobel 1904)/Cambridge (1908-14)
1841-11-16 - Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1842-09-20 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
1844-02-20 - Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
1845-08-16 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
1845-10-28 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
1846-02-04 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
1847-08-23 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1847-10-31 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (2-fasenmotor)
1848-07-27 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1850-05-18 - Oliver Heaviside, London, physicist (predicted ionosphere)
1850-09-02 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
1851-06-08 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
1852-09-15 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1852-12-04 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)
1852-12-19 - A[lbert] A Michelson, Strelno Prussia, US physicist (Nobel 1907)
1853-02-06 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
1853-07-18 - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902)
1853-09-21 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (liquid helium, Nobel 1913)
1854-11-08 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1855-11-07 - Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)
1856-07-10 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil
1856-08-30 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1856-12-18 - Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
1857-02-22 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1858-04-23 - Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1858-11-30 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1859-02-19 - Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)
1859-03-16 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
1859-05-15 - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
1862-03-02 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
1862-03-14 - Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology
1862-06-07 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1862-07-02 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1863-07-12 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
1864-06-25 - Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist (Nobel 1920)
1865-01-22 - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist
1865-03-30 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
1865-05-25 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
1866-02-24 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
1868-03-22 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1868-12-05 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
1869-02-14 - Charles Wilson, English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel)
1869-04-05 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
1869-11-30 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870-09-30 - Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
1871-08-30 - Ernest Lord Rutherford, Engld, physicist (atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908)
1871-11-27 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1872-01-11 - George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
1872-01-23 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
1872-05-28 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
1873-10-23 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
1874-04-15 - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
1874-07-14 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium)
1875-02-04 - Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics)
1876-01-01 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
1876-04-30 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
1876-06-21 - Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
1877-06-07 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
1877-09-11 - James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1878-02-22 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1878-03-02 - Wander J de Haas, Dutch physicist/son-in-law of Lorentz
1878-10-02 - Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist
1878-11-07 - Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist (Protactinium)
1879-03-08 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium)
1879-04-26 - Owen Williams Richardson, England, physicist (Nobel 1928)
1880-01-18 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist (adiabates hypothesis)
1880-10-30 - Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal)
1881-03-04 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1881-03-12 - Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
1881-05-11 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963)
1881-07-19 - Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
1881-07-27 - Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930)
1881-10-22 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1882-04-21 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1882-12-11 - Max Born, Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954)
1882-12-16 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner effect)
1885-08-12 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
1885-10-07 - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1886-07-23 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1887-07-22 - Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925)
1887-08-12 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1887-09-14 - Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1887-11-23 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
1888-02-17 - Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)
1888-11-07 - Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist (Nobel 1930)
1889-01-27 - Balthasar van der Pol, physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol)
1890-01-10 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
1890-03-31 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1890-12-06 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
1891-01-08 - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 200 of 316
1906-01-13 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
1906-04-19 - Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
1906-09-05 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1907-08-18 - John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82
1907-12-17 - Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83
1908-08-25 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
1910-01-17 - Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
1910-03-04 - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
1911-03-01 - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1911-03-13 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80
1911-07-05 - George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85
1914-05-27 - Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
1915-01-28 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
1915-08-10 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
1916-02-19 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78
1916-05-17 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
1917-06-15 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
1917-09-05 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1919-04-04 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86
1919-04-08 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
1919-05-30 - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1919-06-30 - John W S Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76
1919-12-13 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
1919-12-28 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)
1920-08-16 - J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies
1921-07-11 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75
1922-02-23 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
1922-07-17 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
1922-08-02 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
1922-11-16 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
1923-02-10 - Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77
1923-03-08 - Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
1923-09-12 - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
1924-01-13 - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89
1925-03-27 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
1925-09-16 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
1926-02-21 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72
1926-05-30 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1927-01-03 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
1927-09-12 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1928-02-04 - Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74
1928-08-30 - Wilhelm Wien, Ger physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64
1931-05-09 - A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
1933-09-25 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist, dies at 53
1934-05-11 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
1937-01-23 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
1937-10-19 - Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, Engl physicist (Nobel 1908), dies
1937-11-23 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
1937-12-09 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1940-08-22 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
1940-08-30 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1940-10-11 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
1940-12-13 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
1941-08-30 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1942-03-10 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1942-04-17 - Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
1943-01-07 - Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1944-06-10 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1944-10-23 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1944-11-27 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1945-03-31 - Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63
1945-12-11 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
1946-09-16 - James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69
1946-12-19 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1947-02-25 - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82
1947-05-20 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1947-10-04 - Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies
1948-09-05 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1949-08-31 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies
1950-08-19 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1951-01-10 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
1951-04-09 - Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89
1951-04-26 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
1951-09-18 - John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies
1951-12-31 - Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at 76
1952-04-24 - Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57
1953-08-15 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
1953-12-19 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
1954-11-28 - Enrico Fermi, Italian/US physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53
1956-03-03 - Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79
1956-03-17 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1957-02-02 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
1958-12-15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1959-02-15 - Owen W Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69
1959-10-31 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1960-04-26 - Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82
1960-10-14 - Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies
1961-09-12 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
1962-11-18 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1963-05-06 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881)
1964-05-21 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1964-12-17 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
1965-04-21 - Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1965-08-28 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1966-01-24 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
1966-03-01 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1966-03-10 - Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77
1967-09-18 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1968-01-11 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1968-04-01 - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59
