Stephen Hawking
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, & author known for his book, A Brief History of Time.
Joseph Jackson Lister
English optician & physicist, born in 1786, & known for his improvements on the optical microscope.
David Brewster
English scientist, inventor, author, & academic administrator born in 1781. Known for work in physical optics.
Alfred Landé
German-American physicist born in 1888. Known for his contributions to quantum theory.
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist & chemist famous for work in radioactivity. First woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903).
Jean Baptiste Perrin
French Nobel-prize-winning physicist who verified Einstein’s theory of the atomic nature of matter.
Niels Bohr
Danish Nobel-Prize-winning physicist known for contributions to atomic structure & quantum theory.
Enrico Fermi
Italian physicist & creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist & Nobel Laureate born in 1879. He developed the theory of relativity.
Ettore Majorana
Italian theoretical physicist born in 1906. He worked on neutrino masses.