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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...

Ohl, Russell (1898-1987)

Russell Ohl was an American solid-state physicist who discovered the P-N barrier in silicon in 1940 while working at Bell Labs. The P-N junction...

Ohm, Georg Simon (1789-1854)

Georg Simon Ohm was a German physicist who first described the fundamental relationship between voltage, current, and electrical resistance in 1827. Ohm began studying at...

Oersted, Hans (1777-1851)

  Hans Ørsted  (often rendered Oersted in English) was a Danish physicist and chemist who, in 1819, discovered the deflection of a compass needle when electric...

Oberth, Hermann (1894-1989)

  Hermann Oberth was a German rocket scientist who in 1923 wrote Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space) that first described the...

Newton, Isaac (1643-1727)

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and natural philosopher, who is considered by many to be the greatest scientist that ever lived. Newton summarized...

Muskat, Morris (1906-1998)

Morris Muskat was an American petroleum engineer who first described the fundamental aspects of reservoir dynamics. He was one of the first engineers in oil...

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...

Mayne, William Harry (1913)

  William Harry Mayne is an American geophysicist who invented the common-depth-point (CDP) data stacking method of petroleum exploration in 1956. Mayne’s invention, also referred to...
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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. ...