Aziz S. Inan

WWW Biography Links for Famous Chemists/Mathematicians/Physicists/Engineers:

(Note that this list is by no means intended to be a complete list. It only includes a subset of people who contributed to some areas of chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. If you have any other names/suggestions that you think should be included in this list, please let me know by e-mail at ainan@up.edu and I will do my best to incorporate them.)

Ernst Abbe (Born: Eisenach, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (now Thueringen in Germany), January 23, 1840-Died: Jena, Germany, January 14, 1905) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
George Adams, Jr. (Born: Southhampton, U.K., 1750-Died: London or Southhampton, August 14, 1795) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Francis Maria Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus (Born: Rostock, Mecklenberg-Schwerin (now Germany), December 13, 1724-Died: Dorpat, Russia, August 10, 1802) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Sir George Biddell Airy (Born: Alnwick, Northumberland, England, July 27, 1801-Died: Greenwich (now part of London), England, January 2 or 4(?), 1892) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Giovanni Aldini (Born: Bologna, Italy, April, 1762-Died: Milan, Italy, January 17, 1834) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Al-Haitham (Alhazen) (Born: Possibly in Basra, Persia (now Iraq), 965-Died: Possibly in Cairo, Egypt, 1040) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Andre Marie Ampere (Born: Lyon, France, January 22, 1775-Died: Marseille, France, June 10, 1836) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Sir Edward Victor Appleton (Born: Bradford, Yorkshire, England, September 6, 1892-Died: Edinburgh, Scotland, April 21, 1965) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Dominique Francois Jean Arago (Born: Estagel, Roussillon, France, February 26, 1786-Died: Paris, France, October 2, 1853) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Archimedes (Born: Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, about 287 B.C.-Died: Syracuse, about 212 B.C.) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Aristotle (Born: Stagirus, Macedonia, Greece, 384 B.C.-Died: Chalcis, Euboea, Greece, 322 B.C.) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Edwin Howard Armstrong (Born: New York, New York, December 18, 1890-Died: New York, New York, February 1, 1954) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13)
Svante August Arrhenius (Born: Vik (near Uppsala), Sweden, February 19, 1859-Died: Stockholm, Sweden, October 2, 1927) (Links #1, #2, #3)
John Vincent Atanasoff (Born: Hamilton, New York, October 4, 1903-Died: Monrovia, Maryland, June 15, 1995) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7)
Amedeo Avogadro (Born: Turin, Piedmont, Italy, August 9, 1776-Died: Turin, July 9, 1856) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Charles Babbage (Born: London, England, December 26, 1791-Died: London, October 18, 1871)
Jacques Babinet (Born: Lusignan, Vienne, France, March 5, 1794-Died: Paris, France, October 21, 1872)
John Logie Baird (Born: Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, August 14, 1888-Died: Bexhill, Sussex, England, June 14, 1946) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
John Bardeen (Born: Madison, Wisconsin, May 23, 1908-Died: Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1991) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Peter Barlow (Born: Norwich, England, October 13 or 15(?), 1776-Died: Woolwich, Kent, England, March 1, 1862) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Wilhelm Lanier Barrow (Born: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 25, 1903-Died: Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, August 29, 1975)
Antoine Cesar Becquerel (Born: Chatillon-sur-Loing (Loiret), France, March 7, 1788-Died: Paris, France, January 18, 1878) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Alexander Graham Bell (Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, March 3, 1847-Died: Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 2, 1922) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11)
Daniel Bernoulli (Born: Groningen, Netherlands, February 8, 1700-Died: Basel, Switzerland, March 17, 1782)
Clifford Edward Berry (Born: Gladbrook, Iowa, April 19, 1918-Died: Plainview, New York, October 30, 1963) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Baron Jons Jacob Berzelius (Born: Linkoping, Sweden, August 20, 1779-Died: Stockholm, Sweden, August 7, 1848) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Born: Minden, Westphalia (now Germany), July 22, 1784-Died: Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), March 17, 1846)
Jean Baptiste Biot (Born: Paris, France, April 21, 1774-Died: Paris, February 3, 1862)
Harold Stephen Black (Born: Leominister, Massachusetts, April 14, 1898-Died: December 11, 1983) (Links #1, #2)
Hendrik Wade Bode (Born: Madison, Wisconsin, December 24, 1905-Died: June 21, 1982) (Links #1, #2)
Johann Gottlob Friedrich von Bohnenberger (Born: Simmozheim, Germany, June 5, 1765-Died: Jubingen, Germany, April 19, 1831)
Niels Henrik David Bohr (Born: Copenhagen, Denmark, October 7, 1885-Died: Copenhagen, November 18, 1962) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Ludwig Edward Boltzmann (Born: Vienna, Austria, February 20, 1844-Died: Duino, near Trieste, Italy, September 5, 1906) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7)
George Boole (Born: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, November 2, 1815-Died: Ballintemple, County Cork, Ireland, December 8, 1864) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Max Born (Born: Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), December 11, 1882-Died: Gottingen, Germany, January 5, 1970)
Acharya Jagadis Chandra Bose (Born: Mymensingh, India, November 30, 1858-Died: Giridh, India, November 23, 1937) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Georg Mathias Bose (Born: Leipzig, Germany, September 22, 1710-Died: Magdeburg, Germany, September 17, 1761)
Otis F. Boykin (Born: Dallas, Texas, August 29, 1920-Died: Chicago, Illinois, 1982) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Robert Boyle (Born: Lismore Castle, County Waterfold, Ireland, January 25, 1627-Died: London, England, December 31, 1691) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7)
James Bradley (Born: Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England, March 1693-Died: Chalford, Gloucestershire, July 13, 1762) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Sir William Henry Bragg (Born: Westward near Wigton, Cumberland, England, July 2, 1862-Died: London, England, March 12, 1942) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Sir William Lawrence Bragg (Born: Adelaide, Australia, March 31, 1890-Died: Ipswich, England, July 1, 1971) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Eugene Edouard Desire Branly (Born: Amiens, France, October 23, 1844-Died: Paris, France, March 24, 1940)
Walter Houser Brattain (Born: Amoy, China, February 10, 1902-Died: Seattle, Washington, October 13, 1987) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7)
Louis Francois Clement Breguet (Born: 1804-Died: 1883)
Sir David Brewster (Born: Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, December 11, 1781-Died: Allerly, Roxburghshire, February 10, 1868)
Marcel Louis Brillouin (Born: Melle, Deux-Sevres, France, December 19, 1854-Died: Paris, France, June 16, 1948)
Thomas Browne (Born: London, England, October 19, 1605-Died: Norwich, England, October 19, 1682) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Charles Francis Brush (Born: Euclid, Ohio, March 17, 1849-Died: Cleveland, Ohio, June 15, 1929) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (Born: Gottingen, Germany, March 31, 1811-Died: Heidelberg, Germany, August 16, 1899) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
S. Butterworth (Born: Died:)
Niccolo Cabeo (Born: Ferrara, Italy, February 26, 1586-Died: Genoa, Italy, June 30, 1650) (Links #1, #2)
Nicholas Joseph Callan (Born: Darver, Ireland, December 22, 1799-Died: Maynooth (near Dublin), Ireland, January 10, 1864) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Vincenzo Cascariolo (Born: Died:) (Links #1, #2)
Augustin Louis Cauchy (Born: Paris, France, August 21, 1789-Died: Sceaux (near Paris), France, May 23, 1857)
Wilhelm Adolf Eduard Cauer (Born: Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany, June 24, 1900-Died: 1945)
Henry Cavendish (Born: Nice, France, October 10, 1731-Died: London, England, February 24, 1810) (Links #1, #2)
Arthur Cayley (Born: Richmond, Surrey, England, August 16, 1821-Died: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, January 26, 1895) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Anders Celcius (Born: Uppsala, Sweden, November 27, 1701-Died: Uppsala, April 25, 1744)
Claude Chappe (Born: December 25, 1763, Died: January 23, 1805) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Born: Okatovo, Russia, May 16, 1821-Died: St. Petersburg, Russia, December 8, 1894)
Cummings Colineer Chesney (Born: Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1863-Died: November 27, 1947) (Links #1,#2)
William David Coolidge (Born: Hudson, Massachusetts, October 23, 1873-Died: Schenectady, New York, February 3, 1975) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Gustave Gaspard Coriolis (Born: 1792-Died: 1843)
Charles Augustin Coulomb (Born: Angouleme, Charente, France, June 14, 1736-Died: Paris, France, August 23, 1806) (Links #1, #2)
Gabriel Cramer (Born: Geneva, Switzerland, July 31, 1704-Died: Bagnols-sur-Ceze, France, January 4, 1752) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Sir William Crookes (Born: London, England, June 17, 1832-Died: London, April 4, 1919)
Andrew Crosse (Born: June 17, 1784-Died: 1855) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
William Cruickshank (Born: England, 1745-Died: England, 1800) (Links #1, #2)
John Cuthbertson (Born: 1743-Died: 1821)
Jean le Rond D'Alembert (Born: Paris, France, November 16, 1717-Died: Paris, October 29, 1783)
John Frederic Daniell (Born: London, England, March 12, 1790-Died: London, March 13, 1845)
Sidney Darlington (Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1906-Died: Exeter, New Hampshire, October 31, 1997) (Links #1, #2)
Jacques-Arsene D'Arsonval (Born: Pigsty, Saint-Germain-les-Belles, France, June 8, 1851-Died: Parigi, France, December 13, 1940)
Sir Humphry Davy (Born: Penzance, Cornwall, England, December 17, 1778-Died: Geneva, Switzerland, May 29, 1829) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8)
Petrus (Peter) Joseph Wilhelm Debye (Born: Maastricht, Netherlands, March 24, 1884-Died: Ithaca, New York, November 2, 1966) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Lee De Forest (Born: Council Bluffs, Iowa, August 26, 1873-Died: Hollywood, California, June 30, 1961) (Links #1, #2)
Jean-Andre De Luc (Born: 1727-Died: 1817)
Democritus (Born: Abdera, Thrace, Greece, about 460 B.C.-Died: about 370 B.C.)
Augustus De Morgan (Born: Madura, Madras (now Madurai, Tamil Nadu), India, June 27, 1806-Died: London, England, March 18, 1871)
Abraham De Moivre (Born: Vitry-le-Francois, Marne (near Paris), France, May 26, 1667-Died: London, England, November 27, 1754)
Marcel Deprez (Born: Chatillon-sur-Loing, France, December 12, 1843-Died: Vincennes, France, October 13, 1918)
John Theophile Desaguliers (Born: La Rochelle, France, March 12, 1683-Died: London, England, March 10, 1744)
Rene Descartes (Born: La Haye (now Descartes), Touraine, France, March 31, 1596-Died: Stockholm, Sweden, February 11, 1650)
Diocles (Born:-Died:)
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (Born: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, August 8, 1902-Died: Tallahassee, Florida, October 20, 1984)
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (Born: Düren, Germany, February 13, 1805-Died: Göttingen, Hanover, Germany, May 5, 1859)
Christian Johann Doppler (Born: Salzburg, Austria, November 29, 1803-Died: Venice, Italy, March 17, 1853) Links #1, #2, #3)
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne (Born: Boulogne, France, September 17, 1806-Died: Paris, France, September 15, 1875)
Charles Francois de Du Fay (Born: Paris, France, September 14, 1698-Died: Paris, July 16, 1739) (Links #1, #2)
James M. Early (Born: Syracuse, New York, July 25, 1922-)
Jewell James Ebers (Born: Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1921-Died: 1959) (Links #1, #2)
Thomas Alva Edison (Born: Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847-Died: West Orange, New Jersey, October 18, 1931)
Albert Einstein (Born: Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany, March 14, 1879-Died: Princeton, New Jersey, April 18, 1955) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, 11)
Heinrich Valentin Erfle (Born: Duerkheim, Germany, April 11, 1884-Died: Jena, Germany, April 8, 1923)
Leonhard Euler (Born: Basel, Switzerland, April 15, 1707-Died: St. Petersburg, Russia, September 18, 1783)
Charles Fabry (Born: Marseille, France, June 11, 1867-Died: Paris, France, December 11, 1945) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (Born: Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland), May 14, 1686-Died: The Hague, Netherlands, September 16, 1736) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Michael Faraday (Born: Newington, Surrey, England, September 22, 1791-Died: Hampton Court, Middlesex (now part of greater London), England, August 25, 1867) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (Born: Indian Creek, Beaver County, Utah, August 19, 1906-Died: Salt Lake City, Utah, March 11, 1971) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Pierre de Fermat (Born: Beaumont-de-Lomagne, Languedoc, France, August 17 or 20(?), 1601-Died: Castres (near Toulouse), France, January 12, 1665)
Enrico Fermi (Born: Rome, Italy, September 29, 1901-Died: Chicago, Illinois, November 28, 1954) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8)
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (Born: Milton, Quebec, Canada, October 6, 1866-Died: Hamilton, Bermuda, July 22, 1932) (Links #1, #2)
Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (Born: Probably in Pisa, Italy, 1170-Died: Possibly in Pisa, Italy, 1250)
George Francis Fitzgerald (Born: Dublin, Ireland, August 3, 1851-Died: Dublin, February 21, 1901) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (Born: Paris, France, September 23, 1819-Died: Venteuil, Seine-et-Marne, France, September 18, 1896) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (Born: Lancaster, Lancashire, England, November 29, 1849-Died: Sidmouth, Devonshire, England, April 18, 1945) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Agapito G. Flores (Born: Guiguinto, Bulacan, Phillipines(?), September 28, 1879 or 1897(?)-Died: 1943) (Links #1, #2)
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (Born: Paris, France, September 18, 1819-Died: Paris, February 11, 1868) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (Born: Auxerre, Yonne, France, March 21, 1768-Died: Paris, France, May 16, 1830) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Benjamin Franklin (Born: Boston, Massachusetts, January 17, 1706-Died: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1790)
Joseph von Fraunhofer (Born: Straubing, Bavaria, Germany, March 6, 1787-Died: Munich, Germany, June 7, 1826) (Links #1, #2, #3,#4, #5, #6)
Jean Frederic Frenet (Born: 1816-Died: 1900)
Augustin Jean Fresnel (Born: Broglie, France, May 10, 1788-Died: Ville-d'Avray, France, July 14, 1827)
Harald Trap Friis (Born: Naestved, Denmark, 1893-Died: 1976) (Links #1, #2)
Georg Frobenius (Born: 1849-Died: 1917)
Galileo Galilei (Born: Pisa, Italy, February 15, 1564-Died: Arcetri, near Florence, Italy, January 8, 1642) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Evariste Galois (Born: Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris, France, October 25, 1811-Died: Paris, May 31, 1832) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8)
Luigi Aloisius Galvani (Born: Bologna, Italy, September 9, 1737-Died: Bologna, December 4, 1798) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Lucien Gaulard (Born: Paris, France, 1850-Died: Paris, November 26, 1888)
Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss (Born: Braunschweig (Brunswick, in English), Lower Saxony, Germany, April 30, 1777-Died: Gottingen, Hannover, Germany, February 23, 1855) Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Josiah Willard Gibbs (Born: New Haven, Connecticut, February 11, 1839-Died: New Haven, Connecticut, April 28, 1903)
William Gilbert (Born: Colchester, Essex, England, May 24, 1544-Died: London, England, November 30, 1603)
F. Goos (Born:-Died:)
Leo Graetz (Born: Breslau, Germany, September 26, 1856-Died: Munich, Germany, November 12, 1941) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Zenobe Theophile Gramme (Born: Jehay-Bodegnee, Belgium, April 4, 1826-Died: Paris, France, January 20, 1901) (Links #1, #2)
Stephen Gray (Born: Canterbury, Kent, England, around 1666-Died: February 25(?), 1736) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
George Green (Born: Sneinton, Nottingham, England, July 14, 1793-Died: Sneinton, Nottingham, May 31, 1841) (Links #1, #2)
Francesco Maria Grimaldi (Born: Bologna, Italy, April 2, 1618-Died: Bologna, December 28, 1663) (Links #1, #2)
Sir William Robert Grove (Born: Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, U.K., July 11, 1811-Died: London, England, August 1, 1896) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7)
Otto von Guericke (Born: Magdeburg, Germany, November 20, 1602-Died: Hamburg, Germany, May 11, 1686)
Habakuk (Paul) Guldin (Born: 1577-Died: 1643)
Otto Hahn (Born: Frankfurt (Main), Germany, March 8, 1879-Died: Gottingen, Germany, July 28, 1968) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Edwin Herbert Hall (Born: Great Falls (later North Gorham), Maine, November 7, 1855-Died: Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 20, 1938)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (Born: Dublin, Ireland, August 4, 1805-Died: Dunsink Observatory, near Dublin, September 2, 1865)
Richard Wesley Hamming (Born: Chicago, Illinois, February 11, 1915-Died: Monterey, California, January 7, 1998)
H. Hanchen (Born:-Died:)
Hermann Hankel (Born: Halle, Germany, February 14, 1839-Died: Schramberg (near Tubingen), Germany, August 29, 1873)
Robert Hare (Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1781-Died: Philadelphia, May 15, 1858) (Links #1, #2)
Brian Hartley (Born: Accrington, Lancashire, England, May 15, 1939-Died: Lake District, England, October 8, 1994)
Francis Hauksbee (The Elder) (Born: Colchester, England, about 1666-Died: London, England, April-June(?), 1713) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Francis Hauksbee (The Younger) (Born: England, about 1687-Died: England, January 11, 1763) (Links #1, #2)
Louis Alan Hazeltine (Born: Morristown, New Jersey, August 7, 1886-Died: Maplewood, New Jersey, May 24, 1964) (Links #1, #2)
Oliver Heaviside (Born: London, England, May 18, 1850-Died: Paignton, Devonshire, England, February 3, 1925) (Links #1, #2)
Werner Karl Heisenberg (Born: Wurzburg, Germany, December 5, 1901-Died: Munich, Germany, February 1, 1976)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (Born: Potsdam, Prussia, Germany, August 31, 1821-Died: Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Germany, September 8, 1894) (Links #1, #2)
Lester Jennings Hendershot (Born: Hyndmann, Pennsylvania, -Died:) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Joseph Henry (Born: Albany, New York, December 17, 1797-Died: Washington, D.C., May 13, 1878)
Charles Hermite (Born: Dieuze, Lorraine, France, December 24, 1822-Died: Paris, France, January 14, 1901)
Sir Friedrich Wilhelm (William) Herschel (Born: Hanover, Germany, November 15, 1738 - Slough, England, August 25, 1822) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
John Frederick William Herschel (Born: Slough, Buckinghamshire, England, March 7, 1792-Died: Hawkhurst, Kent, England, May 11, 1871) (Links #1, #2)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (Born: Hamburg, Germany, February 22, 1857-Died: Bonn, Germany, January 1, 1894) (Links #1, #2)
Ludwig Otto Hesse (Born: 1811-Died: 1874)
David Hilbert (Born: Konigsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), January 23, 1862-Died: Gottingen, Germany, February 14, 1943)
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (Born: Bonn, Prussia (now Germany), March 27, 1824-Died: Munster, Germany, November 28, 1914) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Robert Hooke (Born: Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, July 18, 1635-Died: London, England, March 3, 1703) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9)
Albert Wallace Hull (Born: Southington, Connecticut, April 19, 1880-Died: January 22, 1966) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Christiaan Huygens (Born: The Hague, Netherlands, April 14, 1629-Died: The Hague, July 8, 1695)
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (Born: Potsdam, Prussia (now Germany), December 10, 1804-Died: Berlin, Germany, February 18, 1851)
Moritz Hermann Jacobi (Born: Potsdam, Germany, September 21, 1801-Died: St. Petersburg, Russia, March 10, 1874)
Zacharias Jansen (Born: Middelburg, Netherlands(?), 1580-Died: 1638) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Brian David Josephson (Born: Cardiff, Wales, U.K., January 4, 1940-) (Links #1, #2, #3)
James Prescott Joule (Born: Salford, Lancashire, England, December 24, 1818-Died: Sale, Cheshire, England, October 11, 1889)
Rudolf Emil Kalman (Born: Budapest, Hungary, May 19, 1930-)
Immanuel Kant (Born: Konigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), April 22, 1724-Died: Konigsberg, February 12, 1804) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Lord (William Thomson) Kelvin (Born: Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 26, 1824-Died: near Largs, Ayr, Scotland, December 17, 1907)
Arthur Edwin Kennely (Born: Bombay, India, December 17, 1861-Died: Boston, Massachusetts, June 18, 1939)
Johannes Kepler (Born: Weil der Stadt, Wurttemberg, Germany, December 27, 1571-Died: Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, November 15, 1630) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Charles Franklin Kettering (Born: Loudenville, Ohio, August 29, 1876-Died: Dayton, Ohio, November 25, 1958)
Jack St. Clair Kilby (Born: Jefferson City, Missouri, November 8, 1923-) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Athanasius Kircher (Born: Geisa, near Fulda, Thuringia (now Germany), May 2, 1601 or 1602(?)-Died: Rome, Italy, November 28, 1680) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (Born: Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), March 12, 1824-Died: Berlin, Germany, October 17, 1887) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
Ewald Georg von Kleist (Born: Prussian Pomerania (now Germany), 1700 B.C.-Died: Koslin, Pomerania (now Koszaln, Poland), December 11, 1748)
Leopold Kronecker (Born: Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland), December 7, 1823-Died: Berlin, Germany, December 29, 1891)
Joseph Louis Lagrange (Born: Turin, Sardinia-Piedmont (now Italy), January 25, 1736-Died: Paris, France, April 10, 1813)
Edmond Laguerre (Born: 1834-Died: 1886)
Horace Lamb (Born: Stockport, England, November 29, 1849-Died: Cambridge, England, December 4, 1934) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Gabriel Lame (Born: 1795-Died: 1870)
Irving Langmuir (Born: Brooklyn, New York, January 31, 1881-Died: Falmouth, Massachusetts, August 16, 1957)
Pierre Simon Laplace (Born: Beaumont-en-Auge, near Caen, Calvados, France, March 28, 1749-Died: Paris, France, March 5, 1827) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Auguste Arthur de La Rive (Born: Geneva, Switzerland, October 9, 1801-Died: Marseilles, France, November 27, 1873) (Links #1, #2)
Sir Joseph Larmor (Born: Magheragall, County Antrim, Ireland, July 11, 1857-Died: Holywood, County Down, Ireland, May 19, 1942)
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (Born: Paris, France, August 26, 1743-Died: Paris, May 8, 1794) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (Born: Canton, South Dakota, August 8, 1901-Died: Palo Alto, California, August 27, 1958) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Ernst Lecher (Born: Vienna, Austria, July 1, 1856-Died: Vienna, July 17, 1926) (Links #1, #2)
Georges Lionel Leclanche (Born: Paris, France, 1839-Died: Paris, September 14, 1882) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Adrien Marie Legendre (Born: Paris, France, September 18, 1752-Died: Paris, January 10, 1833)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Born: 1646-Died: 1716)
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (Born: Pozsony, Austria-Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia), July 7, 1862-Died: Messelhausen, Germany, May 20, 1947) (Links #1, #2)
Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (Born: Dorpat (now Tartu), Estonia, February 24, 1804-Died: Rome, Italy, February 10, 1865)
Guillaume Francois Antoine Marquis de L'Hopital (Born: Paris, France, 1661-Died: Paris, February 2, 1704)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (Born: Oberramstadt, near Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, July 1, 1742-Died: Gottingen, Hanover, Germany, February 24, 1799)
Joseph Liouville (Born: 1809-Died: 1882)
Rudolf Lipschitz (Born: 1832-Died: 1903)
Joseph Jackson Lister (Born: London, England, January 11, 1786-Died: West Ham, Essex, England, October 24, 1869) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (Born: Penkhull, Staffordshire, England, June 12, 1851-Died: Lake, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, August 22, 1940)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Born: Arnhem, Netherlands, July 18, 1853-Died: Haarlem, Netherlands, February 4, 1928)
Rudolf Karl Luneburg (Born: Germany, 1903-Died: Maryland(?), 1949)
Etienne Louis Malus (Born: Paris, France, July 23, 1775-Died: Paris, February 24, 1812)
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (Born: Bologna, Italy, April 25, 1874-Died: Rome, Italy, July 20, 1937)
Andrei Andrejevitch Markov (Born: 1856-Died: 1922)
Martinus Van Marum (Born: Delft, Netherlands, March 20, 1750-Died: Haarlem, Netherlands, December 26, 1837) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Antoine Masson (Born: August(?) 23(?), 1806-Died: 1860) (Links #1, #2)
James Clerk Maxwell (Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, November 13, 1831-Died: Cambridge, England, November 5, 1879) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9)
Hans Ferdinand Mayer (Born: Pforzheim, Germany, October 23, 1895-Died: Munich, Germany, October 16, 1980)
Walther Meissner (Born: Berlin, Germany, December 16, 1882-Died: Munich, Germany, November 15, 1974) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (Born: Tobolsk, Siberia, Russia, February 7, 1834-Died: St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Russia, February 2, 1907) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8)
John Michell (Born: Nottinghamshire, England, 1724-Died: Thornhill, Yorkshire, England, April 21, 1793) (Links #1, #2)
Albert Abraham Michelson (Born: Strelno, Prussia (now Strelno, Poland), December 19, 1852-Died: Pasadena, California, May 9, 1931)
Robert Andrews Millikan (Born: Morrison, Illinois, March 22, 1868-Died: Pasadena, California, December 19, 1953)
August Ferdinand Mobius (Born: 1790-Died: 1868)
John Louis Moll (Born: Wauseon, Ohio, December 21, 1921-) (Links #1, #2)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (Born: Charlestown (now part of Boston), Massachusetts, April 27, 1791-Died: New York, New York, April 2, 1872) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Pieter (Petrus) van Musschenbroek (Born: Leiden, Netherlands, March 14, 1692-Died: Leyden, Netherlands, September 19, 1761) (Links #1, #2, #3)
John Neper (or Napier) (Born: Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1550-Died: Edinburgh, Scotland, April 14, 1617)
John von Neumann (Born: Budapest, Hungary, December 28, 1903-Died: Washington, D.C., February 8, 1957)
Sir Isaac Newton (Born: Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, December 25, 1642-Died: London, England, March 20, 1727) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
William Nicholson (Born: London, England, 1753-Died: London, May 21, 1815) (Links #1, #2)
Nicomedes (Born:-Died:)
Leopoldi Nobili (Born: Trassilico, Garfagnana, Italy, 1784-Died: Florence, Italy, 1835) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet (Born: Pimpre, Oise, France, November 19, 1700-Died: Paris, France, April 25, 1770) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Edward Lawry Norton (Born: Rockland, Maine, July 28, 1898-Died: Chatham, New Jersey, January 28, 1983)
Robert Norton Noyce (Born: Burlington, Iowa, December 12, 1927-Died: Austin, Texas, June 3, 1990) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Harry Nyquist (Born: Nilsby, Sweden, February 7, 1889-Died: April 4, 1976)
Hans Christian Oersted (Born: Rudkobing, Langeland, Denmark, August 14, 1777-Died: Copenhagen, Denmark, March 9, 1851) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Russell Shoemaker Ohl (Born: Near Allentown, Pennsylvania, January, 1898-Died: 1987) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Georg Simon Ohm (Born: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany, March 16, 1789-Died: Munich, Bavaria, Germany, July 6, 1854) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Born: Groningen, Netherlands, September 21, 1853-Died: Leyden, Netherlands, February 21, 1926) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Charles Grafton Page (Born: Salem, Massachusetts, January 25, 1812-Died: Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868)
Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley (Born: England, January 7, 1907-Died: Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 7, 1933) (Links #1, #2)
Pappus of Alexandria (Born: Alexandria, Egypt, about 290-Died: 350)
Marc-Antonie des Chenes Parseval (Born: Rosieres-aux-Saline, France, April 27, 1755-Died: Paris, France, August 16, 1836)
Blaise Pascal (Born: 1623-Died: 1662)
Etienne Pascal (Born: 1588-Died: 1651)
Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen (Born: Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany, January 22, 1865-Died: Potsdam, Germany, February 25, 1947) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (Born: Ham (Somme), France, February 22, 1785-Died: Paris, France, October 27, 1845)
Petrus Peregrinus (Born: Picardy, France, around 1240-Died: Unknown) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Jean Baptiste Gaspard Gustav Alfred Perot (Born: 1867, Died: 1945) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Emile Picard (Born: 1856-Died: 1941)
Antoine Hippolyte Pixii (Born: 1808-Died: 1835) (Links #1, #2)
Nicholas Constant Pixii (Born: 1776-Died: 1861)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (Born: Kiel, Schleswig, Germany, April 23, 1858-Died: Gottingen, Germany, October 3, 1947)
Gaston Plante (Born: Orthez, Basses-Pyrenees, France, April 22, 1834-Died: Paris, France, May 21, 1889) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Johann Christian Poggendorff (Born: Hamburg, Germany, December 29, 1796-Died: Berlin, Germany, January 24, 1877) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Jules Henri Poincare (Born: Nancy, Lorraine, France, April 29, 1854-Died: Paris, France, July 17, 1912) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Simeon Denis Poisson (Born: Pithiviers, Loiret, France, June 21, 1781-Died: Sceaux (near Paris), France, April 25, 1840)
Alexander Stepanovitch Popov (Born: Turinskiye Rudniki (now Krasnoturinsk), Perm, Russia, March 16, 1859-Died: St. Petersburg, Russia, January 13, 1906)
Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet (Born: Cuzance, Doubs, France, February 16, 1790-Died: Paris, France, 1868)
John Henry Poynting (Born: Monton, near Manchester, England, September 9, 1852-Died: March 10, 1914)
Joseph Priestley (Born: Birstal Fieldhead, Yorkshire, England, March 13, 1733-Died: Northumberland, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1804) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Michael Idvorsky Pupin (Born: Idvor, Austria-Hungary, October 4, 1858-Died: New York, New York, March 12, 1935)
Pythagoras (Born: Samos Island (in North Aegean Sea), Greece, about 569 B.C.-Died: Metapontum, Italy, about 475 B.C.)
Jesse Ramsden (Born: Halifax, Yorkshire, England, October 6 or 15(?), 1735-Died: Brighton, Sussex, England, November 5, 1800) (Links #1, #2)
Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh (Born: Terling Place, near Malden, Essex, England, November 12, 1842-Died: Witham, Essex, June 30, 1919)
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (Born: Breselenz, Hanover, Germany, September 17, 1826-Died: Selasca, Italy, July 20, 1866)
Johann Wilhelm Ritter (Born: Samitz, Silesia (now Chojnow, Poland), December 16, 1776-Died: Munich, Germany, January 23, 1810) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Olinde Rodrigues (Born: 1794-Died: 1851)
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (Born: Lennep, Lower Rhine, Germany, March 27, 1845-Died: Munich, Germany, February 10, 1923) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Ole Christensen Romer (Born: Arhus, Jutland, Denmark, September 25, 1644-Died: Copenhagen, Denmark, September 19, 1710) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (Born: Hannover, Hanover, Germany, January 15, 1803-Died: Paris, France, December 20, 1877) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Ernest Rutherford (Born: Brightwater, near Nelson, New Zealand, August 30, 1871-Died: London, England, October 19, 1937) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9)
Georges Sagnac (Born:-Died:)
Horace Benedict de Saussure (Born: Conches, near Geneva, Switzerland, February 17, 1740-Died: Geneva, January 22, 1799)
Felix Savart (Born: Mezieres, France, 30 June 1791-Died: Paris, France, 16 March 1841)
Felix Savary (Born: Paris, France, October 4, 1797-Died: Estagel (near Perpignan), France, July 15, 1841)
Joseph Saxton (Born: Huntington, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1799-Died: Washington, D.C., October 26, 1873) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Bernhard Schmidt (Born: Island of Naissar, Tallin, Estonia, April 11, 1879-Died: December 1, 1935)
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein (Born: Metzingen, Germany, 1799-Died: 1868)
Walter Schottky (Born: Zurich, Switzerland, July 23, 1886-Died: Pretzfeld, Germany, March 4, 1976)
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger (Born: Erdberg, Vienna, Austria, August 12, 1887-Died: Alpbach, Vienna, January 4, 1961) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Laurent Schwartz (Born: 1915-)
Hermann Amandus Schwarz (Born: Hermsdorf, Silesia (now Poland), January 25, 1843-Died: Berlin, Germany, November 30, 1921)
Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (Born: Erlangen, Ansbach-Bayreuth, Germany, April 8, 1779-Died: Halle (Salle), Saxony, Germany, September 6, 1857) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Born: Cordova, Spain, 4 B.C.-Died: Rome, Italy, 65 A.D.) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Claude Elwood Shannon (Born: Gaylord, Michigan, April 30, 1916-Died: Medford, Massachusetts, February 24, 2001) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
William Bradford Shockley (Born: London, England, February 13, 1910-Died: Palo Alto, California, August 12, 1989) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Thomas Johann Siebeck (Born: Tallinn, Estonia, April 9, 1770-Died: Berlin, Germany, December 10, 1831)
Ernst Werner von Siemens (Born: Lenthe (near Hannover), Germany, December 13, 1816-Died: Berlin, Germany, December 6, 1892)
Phillip Hagar Smith (Born: Lexington, Massachusetts, April 29, 1905-Died: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, August 29, 1987) (Links #1, #2)
Willebrord van Roijen Snell (Born: Leiden, Netherlands, 1580-Died: Leiden, October 30, 1626)
Sergei L'Vovich Sobolev (Born: 1908-Died: 1989)
Samuel Thomas von Soemmering (Born: Thorn, Germany (now Poland), January 25, 1755-Died: Frankfurt (Main), Germany, March 2, 1830)
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (Born: Konigsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), December 5, 1868-Died: Munich, Bavaria, Germany, April 26, 1951)
George Clarke Southworth (Born: Little Cooley, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1890-Died: Chatham, New Jersey, July 6, 1972)
William Stanley, Jr. (Born: Brooklyn, New York, November 22, 1858-Died: Great Barrington, May 14, 1916) (Links #1, #2)
Josef Stefan (Born: St. Peter (near Klagenfurt), Austria, March 24, 1835-Died: Vienna, Austria, January 7, 1893) (Links #1, #2)
Carl August von Steinheil (Born: Rapportsweiler, Alsace, Germany, October 12, 1801-Died: Munich, Germany, September 14, 1870) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (Born: Breslau, Germany, April 9, 1865-Died: Schenectady, New York, October 26, 1923)
Sir George Gabriel Stokes (Born: Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, August 13, 1819-Died: Cambridge, England, February 1, 1903) (Links #1, #2, #3)
George Johnstone Stoney (Born: Oakley Park, King's County (now County Offaly), Ireland, February 15, 1826-Died: London, England, July 5, 1911) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
William Sturgeon (Born: Whittington, Lancashire, England, May 22, 1783-Died: Prestwich, Lancashire, December 4, 1850) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Jacques Charles Francois Sturm (Born: 1803-Died: 1855)
Johann Sulzer (Born: Died:)
Brook Taylor (Born: Edmonton, Middlesex, England, August 18, 1685-Died: Somerset House, London, England, December 29, 1731)
Nikola Tesla (Born: Smiljan, Croatia, July 10, 1856-Died: New York, New York, January 7, 1943) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
Thales of Miletus (Born: Miletus, Asia Minor (now Turkey), about 624 B.C.-Died: Miletus, about 546-547 B.C.) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12)
Leon Charles Thevenin (Born: Meaux, near Paris, France, March 30, 1857-Died: Paris, September 21, 1926)
Elihu Thomson (Born: Manchester, England, March 29, 1853-Died: Swampscott, Massachusetts, March 13, 1937) (Links #1, #2)
Sir Joseph John Thomson (Born: Cheetham, near Manchester, England, December 18, 1856-Died: Cambridge, England, August 30, 1940) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10)
August Joseph Ignatz Toepler (Born: Bruhl, near Bonn, Germany, September 7, 1836-Died: Dresden, Germany, March 6, 1912)
John Tyndall (Born: Leighlinbridge, Carlow, Ireland, August 2, 1820-Died: Hindhead, Surrey, England, December 4, 1893)
Shintaro Uda (Born: 1896-Died: 1976)
Alfred Lewis Vail (Born: Morristown, New Jersey, September 25, 1807-Died: Morristown, Janaury 18, 1859) (Links #1,#2, #3, #4, #5)
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (Born: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, December 20, 1901-Died: Boston, Massachusetts, January 16, 1967) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Balthasar Van Der Pol (Born: Ultrecht, Holland, January 27, 1889-Died: 1959)
Alexandre Theophile Vandermonde (Born: 1735-Died: 1796)
Russell Harrison Varian (Born: Washington, D.C., April 24, 1898-Died: Alaska, July 28, 1959) (Links #1, #2, #3), #4)
Sigurd Fergus Varian (Born: Syracuse, New York, May 4, 1901-Died: October 18, 1961) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)
John Venn (Born: Hull, England, August 4, 1834-Died: Cambridge, England, April 4, 1923)
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (Born: Como, Lombardy, Italy, February 18, 1745-Died: Como, March 5, 1827) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15)
Sir William Watson (Born: London, England, 1715-Died: England, 1787)
James Watt (Born: Greenock, Renfrew, England, January 19, 1736-Died: Heathfield, near Birmingham, England, August 19, 1819)
Heinrich Weber (Born: 1842-Died: 1913)
Wilhelm Eduard Weber (Born: Wittenberg, Saxony, Germany, October 24, 1804-Died: Gottingen, Germany, June 23, 1891) (Links #1, #2)
Sir Charles Wheatstone (Born: Gloucester, England, February 6, 1802-Died: Paris, France, October 19, 1875)
Wilhelm Wien (Born: Gaffken, East Prussia (now Poland), January 13, 1864-Died: Munich, Germany, August 30, 1928) (Links #1, #2)
Johann Heinrich Winkler (Born: 1703-Died: 1770) (Links #1, #2, #3)
William Hyde Wollaston (Born: East Dereham, Norfolk, U.K., August 6, 1766-Died: London, England, December 22, 1828) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Josef Hoene de Wronski (Born: Wolsztyn, Poland, August 23, 1778-Died: Neuilly, near Paris, France, August 8, 1853)
Hidetsugu Yagi (Born: Osaka, Japan, January 28, 1886-Died: Tokyo, Japan, January 19, 1976)
Thomas Young (Born: Milverton, Somerset, England, June 13, 1773-Died: London, England, May 10, 1829)
Francesco Zantedeschi (Born: Dolce, Val Lagarina, Italy, August 20, 1797-Died: Padua, Italy, March 29, 1873)
Pieter Zeeman (Born: Zonnemaire, Zeeland, Netherlands, May 25, 1865-Died: Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 9, 1943) (Links #1, #2, #3)
Clarence Melvin Zener (Born: December 1, 1905-Died: Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1993)
Frits Zernike (Born: Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16, 1888-Died: Amersfoort, Netherlands, March 10, 1966) (Links #1, #2)
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Born: Murom, Russia, July 30, 1889-Died: Princeton, New Jersey, July 29, 1982) (Links #1, #2, #3, #4)

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