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(Paris 1774 – Paris 1862) French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and chemist best known for the Biot-Savart law.

(1707 - 1783) [[Swiss]] [[mathematics|mathematician]] and [[physics|physicist]]; one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

(Wittenberg October 24, 1804 – Göttingen June 23, 1891) German physicist known for his work in magnetism and on electromagnetic units.

*[[Heinrich Hertz]] Physicist

(22 August 1834 – 27 February 1906) American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation.

...e theory of consciousness proposed in the mid-1990s by British theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and American anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff.

(Lyons 20 January, 1775 – Marseilles 10 June, 1836) French physicist and mathematician best known for his work in electricity and magnetism.

[[Physics|Physicist]] noted for contributions in [[nuclear reaction]]s and theory. [[Nobel Priz

* [[Hans Christian Oersted]], nineteenth century Danish physicist.

[[German]] physicist (1686 − 1736) who proposed the use of the [[Fahrenheit (unit)|Fahrenheit]

(1831 – 1879) Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory and the statistica

(1842 – 1919) physicist who made fundamental discoveries in the fields of acoustics and optics; 190

(Angoulême June 14, 1736 – Paris August 23, 1806) French physicist known for formulating a law for the force between two electrically charged

was a French mathematician and physicist credited with describing the Fourier series based on which the Fourier tran

(August 9, 1776 – July 9, 1856). An Italian physicist who proposed in 1811 Avogadro's law.

(1728 – 1799) Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and c

(21 May 1792, Paris – 19 September 1843, Paris) French physicist best known for the [[inertial force]] called after him ([[Coriolis force]])

(1877 – 1944) English physicist who was awarded the 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the ch

(1882 – 1970) German-born British physicist and mathematician instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics, who

(1867-1934), Polish-French physicist (Nobel Prize in 1903) and chemist (Nobel Prize in 1911), famous for her wor

(1642–1727) English physicist and mathematician, best known for his elucidation of the universal theory o

...ctober 1885 - 18 November 1962) [[Nobel Prize]] winning [[Denmark|Danish]] physicist, who made important contributions to understanding the structure of [[atom]

(22 February 1878 - 7 July 1909) Swiss theoretical physicist who developed the Ritz's combination principle on spectral lines, and furth

(Rudkøbing, August 14, 1777 – Copenhagen, March 9, 1851) Danish physicist and chemist best known for his discovery of the influence of an electric cu

* [[Samuel P. Langley]] Physicist, Aeronautical pioneer, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

(1892 – 1965) English physicist who received the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the k

(1791 – 1867) Was an English physicist and chemist whose best known work was on the closely connected phenomena of

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(29 November 1803 - 17 March 1853) Austrian mathematician and physicist, who in 1842 discovered the 'Doppler effect', where the observed frequency

...Times'': '[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/us/20pound.html Robert Pound, physicist whose work advanced medicine, is dead at 90]'. April 19, 2010.</ref>

(23 September 1819 - 18 September 1896) French physicist, who was the first to measure the speed of light without any recourse to as

(1919-2010) American physicist whose work on the effect of gravity on light provided confirmation of Einst

A '''physicist''' is a [[scientist]] who focuses their studies on the subject of [[physics * [[Paul Dirac]], theoretical physicist, major contributor to [[quantum mechanics]]

(1918–1988) An American physicist known for his scientific acumen, humor, and charismatic charm; drummer and

* [[Wilhelm Eduard Weber]] (1804 &ndash; 1891) German physicist

* [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]] French physicist

*An introduction to Open science by physicist [[Michael Nielsen]], explaining that the reputation systems currently in us

...ic Intelligence from the [[United States intelligence community]]; nuclear physicist involved in [[fusion device|thermonuclear weapon]] design

...and non-therapeutic patient exposure to [[ionizing radiation]]. A health physicist, for example, will work with a [[radiology|radiologist]] to plan the mechan

The mathematical physicist '''Walter Ritz''' [Sion (Switzerland) February 22, 1878 &ndash; Göttingen

Fermions are named after the Italian-born physicist [[Enrico_Fermi|Enrico Fermi]] (1901-1954).

'''Mario Bunge''' is an Argentine physicist and philosopher of science (born 1919) working since 1960s at McGill Univer

...ork" in everyday speech and very often in a way that is reminiscent of the physicist's definition of work; that is, to proceed along a path through an activity,

...hesis that he made late in 1900. It stresses the influence of the Austrian physicist [[Ludwig Boltzmann]] (1844-1906) on Planck's thinking and especially Bolt

* [[André-Marie Ampère]] The person, early 19th century French physicist and mathematician.

[[Physics|Physicist]] and [[U.S. Representative]], ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D-]][[Ne

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'''Richard Garwin''' is a U.S. nuclear physicist who is deeply involved in national security policy. He is Senior Fellow for

In 1903 a [[France|French]] [[physicist]] named [[René Prosper Blondlot]] announced the discovery of a subtle and In 1904 a visiting American physicist, [[Robert W. Wood]], visited Blondlot's lab, and was invited to view N-Rays

'''Max Planck''' (1858-1947) was a German physicist known for his foundational work on quantum theory. In 1900 he presented his

'''Alfred Wegener''' (1880-1930) was a German physicist, meteorologist and explorer who developed one of the first theories of [[pl

...009/mar/02/god-particle-peter-higgs-portrait-lhc A painting of the British physicist whose work triggered the worldwide hunt for the "God particle"]

...hysics of Baseball''''' (2002) ISBN 0-06-008436-7. An examination by a PhD physicist of various aspects of the game of baseball from the perspective of the scie

* Alfred Bader and Leonard Parker, ''Joseph Loschmidt, Physicist and Chemist'', Physics Today, vol. '''54'''(3), p. 45 (2001) [http://ptonl

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::*'''<u>From the Website:</u>''' In 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures on quantum theory to his neighbors at t

...scale is a [[temperature]] [[scale]] named after the [[Scotland|Scottish]] physicist and engineer, [[Willam John Macquorn Rankine]] (1820 − 1872), who propose

...enbeck''' (December 6, 1900 &ndash; October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American physicist who, with [[Samuel Abraham Goudsmit]], proposed the concept of [[electron s ...ry Cahart Professor of Physics since 1954; he was appointed professor and physicist at the [[Rockefeller Medical Research Center]] at the [[State University of

...the [[Earth]] of the year 2057 slowly freezes. [[particle physics|Particle physicist]] Dr [[Bryan Cox]] was involved with the film as an advisor on the hard [[s

*Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1970).

...(Wittenberg October 24, 1804 &ndash; Göttingen June 23, 1891) was a German physicist. In 1828 he became professor extraordinarius in [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]] and

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The coulomb is named for French physicist [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]] (1736–1806). Coulomb also developed the l

...e 50th anniversary (11 December, 1925) of the doctorate of the theoretical physicist [[Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]]. The gold medal is awarded once every four years

...Savart''' (30 June 1791 Mézières &ndash; 16 March 1841 Paris) was a French physicist, best known for the [[Biot-Savart law]]. V. A. McKusick and H. K. Wiskind, ''Félix Savart (1791–1841), Physician-Physicist: Early Studies Pertinent to the Understanding of Murmurs'', J. Hist. Med. A

The law was first proposed in 1811 by the Italian physicist [[Amedeo Avogadro]], but it was not generally accepted until after 1858, wh

...named after the Dutch physicist [[Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]] and the Danish physicist [[Ludvig Valentin Lorenz]].

...885 - 18 November 1962) was a [[Nobel Prize]] winning [[Denmark|Danish]] [[physicist]]. He made important contributions to understanding the structure of [[Atom ...nitiators. It was in April 1944, when receiving correspondence from Soviet physicist Peter Kapitza, that he became aware that the [[Soviet Union]] knew of the a

The constant and the unit are named after the British physicist [[Michael Faraday]].

* [[Adi Bulsara]] &ndash; Physicist

...ebruary 15, 1988; surname pronounced FINE-man; /ˈfaɪnmən/) was an American physicist known for his scientific acumen, humor, and charismatic charm. His accompli Feynman's brilliance as a physicist landed him smack in Los Alamos in 1942, just as he finished his Ph D in Phy

'''Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier''' (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. He is credited with describing the [[Fourier series]] based on which the [

...given by [[Coulomb's law (magnetic)|Coulomb's law]] named after the French physicist [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]], who established clearly the non-existence ...he Danish physicist [[Hans-Christian Oersted]] in 1820. In 1825 the French physicist [[André-Marie Ampère]] discussed his earlier discovery that magnets exert

The kelvin is named after the Irish-born physicist and engineer [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]] (1824 – 1907), who wro

...e]]s. The proposal was put forward in the mid-1990s by British theoretical physicist [[Roger Penrose|Sir Roger Penrose]] and American anesthesiologist [[Stuart

...e 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]], [[physicist]], and [[philosopher]]. A [[child prodigy]] educated by his father, his ear

...rate and distinct. However, in the early 20th century, the [[German]]-born physicist [[Albert Einstein]] showed that mass can change into energy and that energ

'''Jean-Baptiste Biot''' (1774-1862) was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and chemist.

A '''physical system''' is the part of the universe that a physicist is interested in. What is not in the system is the environment or the ''sur ...his<ref>For linguistic reason we write "he" and "his" when referring to a physicist. This does not imply that physicists are necessarily male.</ref> studies to

Trained as a physicist, in 1919 he became a professsor at Oxford. He qualified as a pilot, to inve

...ugh his lifetime John Dalton became a well known and respected chemist and physicist.

...ol Wb) is the [[SI]] unit of [[magnetic flux]]. It is named for the German physicist [[Wilhelm Eduard Weber]].

The unit is named in honor of the German mathematician and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]].

...th the symbol and the tensor are named after the Italian mathematician and physicist [[Tullio Levi-Civita]].

...re|MBE]] (born 1st January 1964) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[physics|physicist]], [[media|broadcaster]] and [[author]]. His works include: ''[[Fermat's la

Nowadays, the physicist's definition of the Dirac delta function

...mb''' (Angoulême June 14, 1736 &ndash; Paris August 23, 1806) was a French physicist. He is known for [[Coulomb's law]], which is an [[inverse-square law]] for

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...etic theory]] of [[James Clerk Maxwell]] in terms of analogies that a non-physicist would understand. In 1873 he became the third Baron Rayleigh, on the death

...Rudkøbing, August 14, 1777 &ndash; Copenhagen, March 9, 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist. He is best known for his discovery of the influence of an ele ...ree years traveling in Europe. In Germany, he met Johann Wilhelm Ritter, a physicist. Their conversations drew Ørsted into the study of physics. He became a pr

The physicist [[Otto von Guericke]] and the composer [[Georg Telemann]] were born in Magd

'''Enrico Fermi''' (1901-1954) was an Italian-born nuclear physicist and designer of the first [[nuclear reactor]]. Fermi was a very broadly oriented physicist; in fact he was one of the last physicists who made important contributions

*[[David Anthony Alberola]], (1859&ndash;1927), American chemist and physicist *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776&ndash;1856), Italian physicist

The law is named for the Estonian-born physicist [[Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz|Emil Lenz]] (1804 &ndash; 1865), who publish

...mbership also included scientists; the chemist [[Carl l. Alsberg]] and the physicist [[Richard C. Tolman]], some medical doctors; [[Allen Carpenter]] and [[John

...ted a new fundamental particle of matter, subsequently (1935) named by the physicist [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901-1954),<ref name=ferminobelbio>[http://nobelprize.org

An '''Hermitian operator''' is the physicist's version of an object that mathematicians call a [[self-adjoint operator]]

...use two ''different'' standard masses are denoted by ''amu''. There is the physicist's ''amu'' ( = 1/1.000&thinsp;317&thinsp;9 ''u'') and there is the chemist's

...Atlas 2018 online, last access 12/3/2022</ref>, named after the [[German]] physicist [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] (1686 − 1736), who proposed it in 1724. The