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Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein was a German-American physicist who, in 1905, published three papers, each of which had a profound effect on the development of physics. ...

Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh (1853-1926)

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist who discovered superconductivity in 1911, a phenomenon occurring in certain materials at low temperatures, characterized by the complete...

Millikan, Robert Andrews (1868-1953)

Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his...

Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937)

Guglielmo Marchese Marconi was an Italian physicist widely recognized for his development of wireless telegraphy. Experimenting with a homemade apparatus at his father's country estate...

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist and pioneer in formulating the relations between electricity, magnetism, and light. He explained the Zeeman effect—a change in...

Libby, Willard Frank (1908-1980)

Willard Libby was an American chemist who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radiocarbon dating, a process that revolutionized archaeology...

Lenard, Phillip (1862-1947)

Phillip Lenard was a Hungarian-German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of...

Hahn, Otto (1879-1968)

Otto Hahn was a German chemist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering nuclear fission. He is considered a pioneer of radioactivity...

Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923)

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays...

Heisenberg, Werner (1901-1976)

Werner Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. He made important contributions to quantum mechanics, nuclear...
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Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein was a German-American physicist who, in 1905, published three papers, each of which had a profound effect on the development of physics. ...