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Born December 17, 1894 • Rotterdam • Netherlands
Died April 24, 1952 (aged 57) • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study X-ray • dispersion • light • quantum electrodynamics • scattering
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Pascual Jordan
German physicist
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
Arthur Holly Compton
Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist
Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher
Thomas Young, engraving
Thomas Young
British physician and physicist
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
Gödel, Kurt; Schwinger, Julian; Einstein, Albert
Julian Seymour Schwinger
American physicist
Arago, François
François Arago
French physicist
John Tyndall.
John Tyndall
Irish physicist
Giacconi, Riccardo
Riccardo Giacconi
Italian physicist
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
German physicist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist
Maurice Goldhaber
American physicist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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