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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday, 1842
Born 22 September 1791
Newington Butts, England
Died 25 August 1867 (aged 75)
Hampton Court, Middlesex, England
Residence United Kingdom
Nationality English
Fields Physics and Chemistry
Institutions Royal Institution
Known for Faraday's law of induction
Electrochemistry
Faraday effect
Faraday cage
Faraday constant
Faraday cup
Faraday's laws of electrolysis
Faraday paradox
Faraday rotator
Faraday-efficiency effect
Faraday wave
Faraday wheel
Lines of force
Influences Humphry Davy
William Thomas Brande
Notable awards Royal Medal (1835 & 1846)
Copley Medal (1832 & 1838)
Rumford Medal (1846)
Albert Medal (1866)
Signature
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein in 1921
Born 14 March 1879
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg,German
Empire
Died 18 April 1955 (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Residence Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria
(today: Czech Republic), Belgium, United
States
Citizenship Kingdom of Württemberg (1879–1896)
Stateless (1896–1901)
Switzerland (1901–1955)
Austrian of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1911–1912)
German Empire (1914–1918)
Weimar Republic (1919–1933)
United States (1940–1955)
Fields Physics, Philosophy
Institutions Swiss Patent Office (Bern)
University of Zurich
Charles University in Prague
ETH Zurich
Caltech
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
University of Leiden
Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater
ETH Zurich
University of Zurich
Thesis Folgerungen aus den
Capillaritätserscheinungen[1] (1901)
Doctoral advisor Alfred Kleiner
Other academic
advisors Heinrich Friedrich Weber
Notable students Abdul Jabbar Abdullah
Ernst G. Straus
Nathan Rosen
Leó Szilárd
Raziuddin Siddiqui[2]
Known for General relativity and special relativity
Photoelectric effect
Mass-energy equivalence
Theory of Brownian Motion
Einstein field equations
Bose–Einstein statistics
Bose–Einstein condensate
Bose–Einstein correlations
Unified Field Theory
EPR paradox
Notable awards Barnard Medal (1920)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
Matteucci Medal (1921)
Copley Medal (1925)[3]
Max Planck Medal (1929)
Time Person of the Century (1999)
Spouse Mileva Marić (1903–1919)
Elsa Löwenthal (1919–1936)
Children "Lieserl" (1902–1903?)
Hans Albert (1904–1973)
Eduard "Tete" (1910–1965)
Signature
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
Born 13 June 1831
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 5 November 1879(aged 48)
Cambridge, England
Citizenship British
Nationality Scottish
Fields Physics and Mathematics
Institutions Marischal College, Aberdeen
King's College, London
University of Cambridge
Alma mater University of Edinburgh
University of Cambridge
Academic advisors William Hopkins
Notable students George Chrystal
Known for Maxwell's equations
Maxwell distribution
Maxwell's demon
Maxwell's discs
Maxwell speed distribution
Maxwell's theorem
Maxwell material
Generalized Maxwell model
Displacement current
Maxwell coil
Maxwell's wheel[1]
Notable awards Smith's Prize (1854)
Adams Prize (1857)
Rumford Medal (1860)
Keith Prize (1869–71)
Signature
André-Marie Ampère
Engraving of André-Marie Ampère
Born 20 January 1775
Lyon, France
Died 10 June 1836 (aged 61)
Marseille, France
Nationality French
Fields Physics
Institutions École Polytechnique
Known for Ampère's circuital law, Ampère's force law
Signature
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855), painted byChristian Albrecht
Jensen
Born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
30 April 1777
Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick-
Wolfenbüttel,Holy Roman Empire
Died 23 February 1855(aged 77)
Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover
Residence Kingdom of Hanover
Nationality German
Fields Mathematics and physics
Institutions University of Göttingen
Alma mater University of Helmstedt
Doctoral advisor Johann Friedrich Pfaff
Other academic
advisors Johann Christian Martin Bartels
Doctoral students Christoph Gudermann
Christian Ludwig Gerling
Richard Dedekind
Johann Listing
Bernhard Riemann
Christian Peters
Moritz Cantor
Other notable
students Johann Encke
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Gotthold Eisenstein
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt
Gustav Kirchhoff
Ernst Kummer
August Ferdinand Möbius
L. C. Schnürlein
Julius Weisbach
Known for See full list
Influenced Sophie Germain
Ferdinand Minding
Notable awards Lalande Prize (1810)
Copley Medal (1838)
Signature
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Portrait by Hippolyte Lecomte
Born 14 June 1736
Angoulême, Angoumois, France
Died 23 August 1806 (aged 70)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Fields Physics
Known for Coulomb's law
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827). Posthumous portrait by
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, 1838.
Born 23 March 1749
Beaumont-en-Auge,Normandy, France
Died 5 March 1827 (aged 77)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Fields Astronomer andMathematician
Institutions École Militaire (1769–1776)
Alma mater University of Caen
Academic advisors Jean d'Alembert
Christophe Gadbled
Pierre Le Canu
Doctoral students Siméon Denis Poisson
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Siméon Poisson
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840)
Born 21 June 1781
Pithiviers, Orléanais, Kingdom of
France
(present-day Loiret, France)
Died 25 April 1840 (aged 58)
Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, Kingdom of
France
Nationality French
Fields Mathematics
Institutions École Polytechnique
Bureau des Longitudes
Faculté des Sciences
École de Saint-Cyr
Alma mater École Polytechnique
Doctoral advisor Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Doctoral students Michel Chasles
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Joseph Liouville
Other notable
students Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Known for Poisson process
Poisson equation
Poisson kernel
Poisson distribution
Poisson bracket
Poisson algebra
Poisson regression
Poisson summation formula
Poisson's spot
Poisson's ratio
Poisson zeros
Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution
Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation
Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot
Born 21 April 1774
Paris
Died 3 February 1862 (aged 87)
Paris
Nationality French
Fields Physics, astronomy andmathematics
Known for Biot–Savart law
Influenced Louis Pasteur, William Ritchie
Notable awards Rumford Medal (1840)
Signature
Bust of Félix Savart in the Institut de France located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris
Félix Savart (French: [savaʁ]; 30 June 1791 – 16 March 1841) was a physicist who is primarily
known for the Biot–Savart lawof electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his
colleague Jean-Baptiste Biot. His main interest was in acousticsand the study of vibrating
bodies.[1] A particular interest in the violin led him to create an experimental trapezoidal model. He
gave his name to the savart, a unit of measurement for musical intervals, and to Savart's wheel—
a device he used while investigating the range of human hearing.
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist & chemist
Born 14 August 1777
Rudkøbing, Denmark
Died 9 March 1851 (aged 73)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Fields Physics, chemistry
Institutions University of Copenhagen
Alma mater University of Copenhagen(Ph.D) (1799)[1]
Known for Discovery ofelectromagnetism[2]
Influences Immanuel Kant
Notable awards Copley Medal (1820)
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John Poynting
John Henry Poynting (1852-1914)
Born 9 September 1852
Monton, Lancashire, England
Died 30 March 1914 (aged 61)
Birmingham, England
Residence England
Nationality English
Fields Physicist
Institutions Mason Science College,University of
Birmingham
Alma mater University of Cambridge
University of Manchester
Academic
advisors James Clerk Maxwell
Notable students Francis William Aston
Known for Poynting vector
Poynting effect
Poynting's theorem
Poynting–Robertson effect
Influences Edward Routh
Notable awards Adams Prize (1893)
Hopkins Prize (1893)
Royal Medal (1905)
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