Developer of Soviet Hydrogen Bomb The son of a physicist, Sakharov was born May 21, 1921, in Moscow. He received his doctorate in 1947...
Category : Physicists
Ernest Rutherford
Discoverer of the Atomic Nucleus The fourth of 12 children, Ernest Rutherford was born to poor parents in Spring Grove, New Zealand, on...
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discoverer of Xrays Roentgen was born on March 27, 1845, in Lennep, Prussia (now Remscheid, Germany). In 1864 his college education was...
Max Planck
Developer of Foundation for Quantum Theory Plank was born on April 23, 1858, in Kiel, Germany: His family taught him the principles of...
Isaac Newton
Discoverer of Laws of Motion and Gravitation Newton was born on December 25, 1642, in Woolsthorpe, England. His father died shortly...
Lise Meitner
Codiscoverer of Nuclear Fission Born in Vienna on November 7, 1878, Meitner studied under LUDWIG BOLTZMANN, who described her as his...
Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
Pioneer in Electromagnetism, Heat, and Mechanics Kelvin was born William Thomson on June 26, 1824, in Belfast, Ireland. (He adopted the...
James Prescott Joule
Discoverer of Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Joule was born on December 24, 1818, at Salford, near Manchester, England. His father was a...
Werner Heisenberg
Developer of Matrix Mechanics and the Uncertainty Principle Born on December 5, 1901, near Dusseldorf, Germany, Heisenberg attended...