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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
André-Marie Ampère
Physicist
22-Jan-1775 10-Jun-1836 Explored electromagnetism
Anders Jonas Ångström
Physicist
13-Aug-1814 21-Jun-1874 Founder of spectroscopy
Emile Baudot
Inventor
11-Sep-1845 28-Mar-1903 Baudot Code
Henri Becquerel
Physicist
15-Dec-1852 25-Aug-1908 Discoverer of radioactivity
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
3-Mar-1847 2-Aug-1922 Inventor of the telephone
Anders Celsius
Astronomer
27-Nov-1701 25-Apr-1744 Astronomer, invented centigrade scale
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Physicist
14-Jun-1736 23-Aug-1806 Coulomb's Law
Marie Curie
Chemist
7-Nov-1867 4-Jul-1934 Early nuclear chemist
Pierre Curie
Physicist
15-May-1859 19-Apr-1906 Early investigator of radiation
Peter Debye
Physicist
24-Mar-1884 2-Nov-1966 Studied molecular structure, dipoles
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
Physicist
24-May-1686 16-Sep-1736 Thermometrist
Michael Faraday
Physicist
22-Sep-1791 25-Aug-1867 Discovered electrical induction
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician
30-Apr-1777 23-Feb-1855 Perhaps the greatest German mathematician
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Physicist
28-Jun-1906 20-Feb-1972 Shell nuclear model
Joseph Henry
Physicist
17-Dec-1797 13-May-1878 Discovered electromagnetic induction
Heinrich Hertz
Physicist
22-Feb-1857 1-Jan-1894 Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
Karl Jansky
Astronomer
22-Oct-1905 14-Feb-1950 Radio waves from outer space
James Prescott Joule
Physicist
24-Dec-1818 11-Oct-1889 English physicist, Joule's Law
Lord Kelvin
Physicist
26-Jun-1824 17-Dec-1907 Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Samuel P. Langley
Astronomer
22-Aug-1834 2-Feb-1906 Heavier-than-air flying machine
Hans Christian Oersted
Physicist
14-Aug-1777 9-Mar-1851 Discovered electromagnetics
Georg Simon Ohm
Physicist
16-Mar-1789 6-Jul-1854 Ohm's Law
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician
19-Jun-1623 19-Aug-1662 French thinker and mathematician
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Physicist
27-Mar-1845 10-Feb-1923 Discovered X-Rays
Wilbur Scoville
Scientist
1865 1942 Scoville heat units
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
10-Jul-1856 7-Jan-1943 Invented alternating current
Alessandro Volta
Physicist
18-Feb-1745 5-Mar-1827 Invented electric battery
James Watt
Inventor
19-Jan-1736 19-Aug-1819 Invented modern steam engine
Wilhelm Weber
Physicist
24-Oct-1804 23-Jun-1891 Student of electromagnetism


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