Famous Physicists - page 2

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

A top-class French mathematician and physicist, Joseph Fourier brought about a revolution in science with his research

Johann Heinrich Lambert was a Swiss mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher

James Maxwell was a Scottish physicist credited to be the father of modern physics

George Ohm is founder of the concept known as Ohm’s law

Christian Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist, who gave the principle of ‘Doppler Effect’

A great French physicist and mathematician, Andre Marie Ampere is remembered for his contribution towards of classical electromagnetism

William Gilbert was a distinguished astronomer and physician

Homi Bhabha was the father of Indian nuclear programme

Amedeo Avogadro was an Italian scientist who formulated what is now known as Avogadro's law

Hermann von Helmholtz was a German physician and physicist, best known for his statement of the law of the conservation of energy.