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Websites about the life, work, and contributions of individual scientists (both living and dead) who have made significant contributions in physics or related fields.

Subcategories

• Alvarez, Luis
• Aristotle
• Astronomy
• Bohr, Niels
• Classical Mechanics
• Copernicus, Nicolas
• Curie, Marie
• Dalton, John
• Einstein, Albert
• Electromagnetism
• Faraday, Michael
• Feynman, Richard
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Galileo
• Hawking, Stephen
• Heisenberg, Werner
• Hooke, Robert
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Mathematical Physics
• Newton, Isaac
• Planck, Max
• Quantum Mechanics
• Relativity
• Tesla, Nikola
• Ørsted, Hans Christian

Resources in This Category

• Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov

  http://kolmogorov.com/
  Very famous Russian physicist and mathematician of the twentieth century.

• David Gross

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gross
  Article from wikipedia on this American physicist and string theorist who, along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic freedom.

• Green, George

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green
  Includes biography and related resources.

• Green, George

  http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Green.html
  Biographical details of this British mathematician and physicist.

• Lawrence and the Cyclotron

  https://www.aip.org/history/exhibits/lawrence/
  Biography of Ernest Orland Lawrence, from the AIP Center for History of Physics which describes Lawrence's development of the cyclotron.

• Lectures on Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein

  http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/lecturelist.html
  Full lecture notes from an introductory course taught at U of Virginia.

• Ludwig Boltzmann

  http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9710007
  An overview of the life and work of Ludwig Boltzmann

• Moritz Immisch 1838-1903

  http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Eimmisch/moritzinventor.htm
  Victorian inventor, electrical engineer, pioneer and manufacturer, particularly remembered for his famous Immisch Electric Motor.

• Physicists on Stamps

  http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physstamps.html
  Scanned images of stamps from around the world. Donated scans are welcome.

• Pictures of Physicists

  http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/portraits.html
  Pictures and drawings of famous physicists, a comprehensive collection.

• Smoluchowski, Marian

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoluchowski
  Biography of this famous Polish physicist.

• Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics

  http://almaz.com/nobel/physics/
  A comprehensive list of Nobel Prize Laureates in physics, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

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