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Born October 31, 1847 • Italy
Died February 7, 1897 (aged 49) • Turin • Italy
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian scientist
Torricelli, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin
Aleksandr Popov
Russian engineer
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist

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