Albert Einstein male, deceased

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E...

James Clerk Maxwell male, deceased

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...

Hermann Minkowski male, deceased

Hermann Minkowski (June 22, 1864 in Aleksotas/Russian Empire (today Kaunas, Lithuania), – January 12, 1909 in Göttingen) was a Lithuanian-born Ger...

Tullio Levi-Civita male, deceased

Tullio Levi-Civita (March 29, 1873 - December 29, 1941) (pronounced le-vee chee-vee-tah) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on...

Paul Langevin male, deceased

Paul Langevin was a prominent French physicist who developed "Langevin dynamics" and the "Langevin equation". He was one of the founders of the...

Herbert Dingle male, deceased

Herbert Dingle was an English astronomer and president of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is best-known for his claimed disproof of the theory...

Gerald Schroeder male

Dr. Gerald Schroeder is a former professor of nuclear physics at MIT and former member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He holds doctorates...

Theodor Kaluza male, deceased

Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza-Klein theory involving field equations in...

Arthur Stanley Eddington male, deceased

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM (December 28, 1882 - November 22, 1944) was an astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the...

Leopold Infeld male, deceased

Leopold Infeld (August 20, 1898, Cracow - January 15, 1968, Warsaw) was a Polish physicist. He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University and...