Physicists are the scientists who study the field of physics in great detail. They conduct research into physical phenomena or the natural science that involve the study of matter and related concepts. They analyze the general happenings in nature and try to understand how the universe behaves. On the basis of research through observation and experiments, they discover physical laws and propound theories that explain the functioning of natural forces like gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear interactions. The discovery of new physical laws and theories contribute to the existing base of theoretical knowledge and can also be used for more practical applications such as development of medial equipment, electronic devices, nuclear reactors, etc. During the earlier days, physics was considered a field of philosophy; it was only during the 19th century that physics was realized as a discipline separate from philosophy. Some of the major branches of physics are classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, theory of relativity and electromagnetism. Since physics covers a vast number of fields, most physicists specialize in one of the many subfields. However, the various subfields may overlap with each other and also with other sciences resulting in interdisciplinary fields such as biophysics, geophysics, meteorology, etc. Browse through this section to explore the biographies, life and works of various famous physicists from all over the world.
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Abdus Salam
One person who had made the Asian sub-continental nation of Pakistan famous for a reason other than cricket and politics, is Abdus Salam. This ...
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Albert Einstein
Do you fondly call the whiz kid in your class/ organization ‘Einstein’? If yes, then you aren’t the only one who does so. People around ...
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Amedeo Avogadro
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro de Quaregna e di Cerreto, more popularly known as Amedeo Avogadro was born on August 9, 1776, in Turin, ...
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Andre Marie Ampere
. André Marie Ampère is usually considered the first person to discover electromagnetism. He is credited for the invention of the astatic ...
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Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov was a Russian physicist and Noble Prize winning activist, popularly known as ‘The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’. He was a ...
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Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse was an outstanding Greek mathematician, inventor, physicist, engineer and also an astronomer. Although not much is known ...
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Augustin-Jean Fresne...
Fresnel was a French physicist and is best remembered for his invention of compound lenses that transform the radiance of lighthouses and helped ...
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Avicenna
Avicenna was the most influential and renowned philosopher and scientist of the Islamic world. Popularly known as the father of modern medicine, ...
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He did pioneering works in calculating machines ...
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C.V. Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, the Indian physicist who made his motherland proud by becoming the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for ...
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Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson was a renowned American physicists, who is best remembered for the discovery of positron in 1932. Born to Swedish immigrant ...
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Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was a multifaceted scientist who left his mark in astronomy, astrophysics, Extra-Terrestrial Science, the space and natural sciences ...
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Charles Augustin De ...
Coulomb was an astounding physicist, engineer and mathematician, who served his nation in many areas and brought about the culture of ...
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Christian Doppler
Ambitious and indomitable are two words that perfectly describe Christian Doppler’s personality. A leading mathematician and physicist of his ...
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Count Alessandro Vol...
Known for his extraordinary work in the field of electricity, Volta invented the voltaic pile, which became the world’s first electric ...
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Cyril Domb
Can religion and science ever be reconciled? This age-old question has had many a great mind baffled, but not Cyril Domb. The theoretical ...
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Edward Teller
A controversial figure and one of the most brilliant nuclear and molecular physicists, Edward Teller left an unparalleled legacy in the field of ...
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist who made major contributions to the development of nuclear energy. He is counted amongst the men who are ...
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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford is a prominent figure in the field of nuclear physics. He is known for his discoveries of chemical relations between ...
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Galileo Galilei
Often remembered as the Father of Modern Astronomy, Galileo Galilei was one of the most celebrated and illustrious astronomers, mathematicians ...
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Georg Ohm
A German physicist and mathematician, Georg Simon Ohm is best remembered for his formulation of Ohm’s Law, which defines the relationship ...
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Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist who made major contributions to the fields of thermochemistry and electrochemistry. His findings ...
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Hermann Klaus Hugo W...
Hermann K. H. Weyl, famous as Peter among his close associates, was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. His contributions in ...
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Homi Bhabha
The man who pioneered the Indian nuclear research programme, Homi Jahangir Bhabha was a nuclear physicist who laid the foundation for nuclear ...
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Isaac Newton
An extraordinary genius and proficient physicist, mathematician, astronomer and alchemist, Sir Isaac Newton is considered to be the greatest and ...
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J. Robert Oppenheime...
J. Robert Oppenheimer is fondly remembered as the founding father of the American School of Theoretical Physics. His significant contributions ...
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Jagadish Chandra Bos...
The first person to prove that plants also have the ability to feel pain and affection, Jagadish Chandra Bose was an Indian polymath whose ...
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James Maxwell
Who introduced the concept of electromagnetic theory? Who presented the first durable color photograph? Who was the man behind the kinetic ...
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James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule was an English physicist, best known for establishing the relationship between mechanical work and heat transfer. This ...
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Jean le Rond d'Alemb...
Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a brilliant mathematician after whom the D'Alembert's formula for calculating solutions to the wave equation is ...
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Jean Le Rond d’Ale...
A great mathematician, philosopher and music theoretician, Jean Le Rond d’Alembert was among the most influential men of his time. His ...
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Johann Heinrich Lamb...
Johann Heinrich Lambert was a man with a vision. Despite coming from a family of tailors, Lambert acclaimed a great deal of success in his life, ...
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Johannes Rydberg
The brilliant physicist who devised the Rydberg formula, for predicting the wavelengths of photons, Johannes Rydberg was a Swedish scientist who ...
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John Bardeen
The only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, John Bardeen was an American physicist and one of the co-inventors of the ...
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John Stewart Bell
It is often said that physicists are usually of two types, the first type are the ones who delve into nature and study it like a book and the ...
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Joseph Fourier
A French mathematician and physicist, Joseph Fourier is renowned for showing how the conduction of heat in solid bodies could be analyzed in ...
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler was a leading Swiss mathematician and physicist who made significant discoveries in varied fields such as graph theory and ...
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Lord Kelvin
William Thomson is popularly known as 1st Baron Kelvin, the creator of ‘absolute zero’ which are low limit temperature units now represented ...
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie has a number of ‘firsts’ and ‘only’ to her credit – she was the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize, the first female ...
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Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha was an eminent Indian astrophysicist who gave the world the theory of ionization which explained the origin of stellar spectra. By ...
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was one of the most prolific scientists of the 19th century. A British physicist and chemist, Faraday is best known for his ...
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Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr was a Noble Prize winning Danish physicist who did pioneering work in quantum theory and in contributing to the understanding of ...
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Owen Chamberlain
Nobel Laureate American physicist Owen Chamberlain discovered the existence of antiprotons. The founding of antiprotons has great significance ...
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Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie was a French physicist, one of the pioneers in radioactivity. He and his wife, Marie Curie, along with Henri Becquerel, were ...
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist and physicist. As one of the early pioneers of modern experimental scientific ...
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Sadi Carnot
Popularly described as the "Father of Thermodynamics", Sadi Carnot was the man behind the first successful theoretical account of heat engine, ...
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Sally Ride
Sally Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who achieved iconic status by becoming the first American woman and third overall to travel ...
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Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose was an eminent physicist after whom ‘Bosons’, one of the two classes of particles in quantum mechanics, was named. He ...
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Sir William Lawrence...
William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-British physicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics at the age of 25 and is the youngest ever Nobel ...
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Sir William Rowan Ha...
One of the most significant Irish scientists, William Rowan Hamilton made noteworthy contributions in the field of classical mechanics, algebra ...
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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical ...
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Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg is a theoretical physicist who along with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow won the Nobel Prize in physics "for their ...
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Subrahmanyan Chandra...
A Nobel laureate, who along with William A. Fowler, won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his mathematical theory of black holes,, Subrahmanyan ...
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Thomas Kuhn
One of the most influential ‘philosophers of science’ of the 20th century, Thomas Kuhn is regarded as the man who changed the way the world ...
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Vikram Sarabhai
Fondly called the Father of the Indian Space program, Vikram Sarabhai was a man much ahead of his times. Born into a wealthy business family in ...
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Wilhelm Rontgen
Wilhelm Rontgen was an eminent German physicist who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays. Though many scientists ...
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Wilhelm Weber
Popularly known as the co-inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph, Wilhelm Weber was a man blessed with exceptional intelligence and ...
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Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist who won Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in thermal radiation. He is best known for Wien's ...
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William Gilbert
William Gilbert, also known as ‘Gilberd’, was a famous researcher in magnetism. He was famous during the time of Queen Elizabeth I and is ...
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Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian-Swiss theoretical physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the ‘Exclusion ...
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