Famous Physicists

The Most Famous Physicists
Name	Birthday	Nationality	Bio
Walter Kohn	March 9, 1923	Austrian	Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and physicist
Amedeo Avogadro	August 9, 1776	Italian	Amedeo Avogadro was an Italian scientist who formulated what is now known as Avogadro's law
Gabriel Lippmann	August 16, 1845	French	Gabriel Lippmann was a French physicist and inventor
Charles Augustin De Coulomb	June 14, 1736	French	Charles Coulomb was the French physicist who developed Coulomb’s law
Karl Ferdinand Braun	June 6, 1850	German	Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909
Christian Doppler	November 29, 1803	Austrian	Christian Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist, who gave the principle of ‘Doppler Effect’
James Maxwell	June 13, 1831	Scottish	James Maxwell was a Scottish physicist credited to be the father of modern physics
Sadi Carnot	June 1, 1796	French	Sadi Carnot was a learned French scientist who founded modern thermodynamics
Francis William Aston	September 1, 1877	British	Francis William Aston was a British scientist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Michael Faraday	September 22, 1791	British	Michael Faraday was the most celebrated British scientist of the 19th century

Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and physicist

Walther Hermann Nernst was a German scientist who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to the field of thermochemistry.

Francis William Aston was a British scientist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Donald Arthur Glaser was a prominent American physicist and neurobiologist who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909

Gabriel Lippmann was a French physicist and inventor

Joseph Louis Gay Lussac was a French chemist and physicist who made notable advances in applied chemistry

Sadi Carnot was a learned French scientist who founded modern thermodynamics

Michael Faraday was the most celebrated British scientist of the 19th century