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# Physicists

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Many famous physicists of this century are found on the list of Nobel Prize laureates in physics.

Famous early physicists:

- Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564-1642)
- [Evangelista Torricelli]? (Italy, 1608-1647)

Famous physicists of the 18th century:

- [Daniel Bernoulli]? (Germany 1700-1782)
- [Henry Cavendish]? (1731-1810)
- [Charles Augustin de Coulomb]? (France, 1736-1806)
- [Jean-Lerond d'Alembert]? (1717-1783)
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Famous physicists of the 19th century:

- [Ernst Abbe]? (Germany, 1840-1905)
- Andre Marie Ampere (France, 1775-1836)
- Anders Jonas Angstrom (Sweden, 1814-1874)
- [Ludwig Boltzmann]? (Austria, 1844-1906)
- [Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot]? (France, 1796-1832)
- [Michael Faraday]? (Britain, 1791-1867)
- [Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier]? (France, 1768-1830)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (France, 1788-1827)
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (Germany, 1857-1894)
- [James Clerk Maxwell]? (1831-1879)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (Denmark, 1777-1851)
- J.J. Thomson
- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

Famous physicists of the 20th century:

- [Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac]? (Britain, 1902-1984)
- Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976)
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- [Stephen Hawking]? (1942- )
- [Enrico Fermi]? (Italy, 1901-1954)
- Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
- [Murray Gell-Mann]? (1929- )
- [Robert Oppenheimer]? (1904-1967)
- [Wolfgang Ernst Pauli]? (Vienna, 1900-1958)
- Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
- [Erwin Schrödinger]? (1887-1961)
- Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
- John von Neumann (1903-1957)

Pictures of famous physicists are collected in the [Emilio Segre Visual Archives].

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