English > physicist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A scientist trained in physics. |
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| Category | physics, natural philosophy | The science of matter and energy and their interactions |
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| Instances | Alhazen, Alhacen, al-Haytham, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham | An Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century |
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| Anderson, Philip Anderson, Philip Warren Anderson, Phil Anderson | United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-) |
| Appleton, Edward Appleton, Sir Edward Victor Appleton | English physicist remembered for his studies / studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966) |
| Archimedes | Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC) |
| Arrhenius, Svante August Arrhenius | Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927) |
| Avogadro, Amedeo Avogadro | Italian physicist noted for his work on gases |
| Bardeen, John Bardeen | United States physicist who won the Nobel prize for physics twice (1908-1991) |
| Becquerel, Henri Becquerel, Antoine Henri Becquerel | French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908) |
| Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli | Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782) |
| Boltzmann, Ludwig Boltzmann | Austrian physicist who contributed to the kinetic theory of gases (1844-1906) |
| Brockhouse, Bertram Brockhouse | Canadian physicist who bounced neutron beams off of atomic nuclei to study the structure of matter (1918-2003) |
| Carnot, Sadi Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot | French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832) |
| Cavendish, Henry Cavendish | British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density / density of the earth (1731-1810) |
| Charles, Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles | French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823) |
| Coulomb, Charles Augustin de Coulomb | French physicist famous for his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism |
| Crookes, William Crookes, Sir William Crookes | English chemist and physicist |
| Curie, Pierre Curie | French physicist |
| Dalton, John Dalton | English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures |
| Dewar, Sir James Dewar | Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923) |
| Doppler, Christian Johann Doppler | Austrian physicist famous for his discovery of the Doppler effect (1803-1853) |
| Einstein, Albert Einstein | physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity |
| Esaki, Leo Esaki | physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925) |
| Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit | German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736) |
| Faraday, Michael Faraday | The English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867) |
| Fechner, Gustav Theodor Fechner | German physicist who founded psychophysics |
| Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault | French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air |
| Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier | French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat / heat (1768-1830) |
| Franck, James Franck | United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964) |
| Fresnel, Augustin Jean Fresnel | French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827) |
| Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs | British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution |
| Gabor, Dennis Gabor | British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979) |
| Gamow, George Gamow | United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968) |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850) |
| Geiger, Hans Geiger | German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945) |
| Gilbert, William Gilbert | English court physician noted for his studies / studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603) |
| Goddard, Robert Hutchings Goddard | United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945) |
| Hawking, Stephen Hawking, Stephen William Hawking | English theoretical physicist (born in 1942) |
| Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside | English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications |
| Helmholtz, Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz | German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894) |
| Henry, Joseph Henry | United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878) |
| Hertz, Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz | German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894) |
| Hess, Victor Hess, Victor Franz Hess | United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964) |
| Huygens, Christiaan Huygens, Christian Huygens | Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695) |
| Joliot, Jean-Frederic Joliot, Joliot-Curie, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie | French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie) |
| Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie | French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956) |
| Joule, James Prescott Joule | English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889) |
| Kastler, Alfred Kastler | French physicist (1902-1984) |
| Kelvin, First Baron Kelvin, William Thompson | British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907) |
| Kirchhoff, G. R. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff | German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887) |
| Landau, Lev Davidovich Landau | Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968) |
| Lenard, Philipp Lenard | German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947) |
| Lippmann, Gabriel Lippmann | French physicist who developed the first color photographic process (1845-1921) |
| Lodge, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge | English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940) |
| Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz | Dutch physicist noted for work on electromagnetic theory (1853-1928) |
| Mach, Ernst Mach | Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916) |
| Maxwell, J. C. Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell | Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879) |
| Meissner, Fritz W. Meissner | German physicist (1882-1974) |
| Michelson, A. A. Michelson, Albert Michelson, Albert Abraham Michelson | United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931) |
| Millikan, Robert Andrews Millikan | United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953) |
| Neel, Louis Eugene Felix Neel | French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904) |
| Nernst, Walther Hermann Nernst | German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941) |
| Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton | English mathematician and physicist |
| Oersted, Hans Christian Oersted | Danish physicist (1777-1851) |
| Ohm, Georg Simon Ohm | German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854) |
| Pitot, Henri Pitot | French physicist for whom the Pitot tube was named (1695-1771) |
| Planck, Max Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck | German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947) |
| Powell, Cecil Frank Powell | English physicist who discovered the pion (the first known meson) which is a subatomic particle involved in holding the nucleus together (1903-1969) |
| Prokhorov, Aleksandr Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikjailovich Prokhorov | Russian physicist whose research into ways of moving electrons around atoms led to the development of masers and lasers for producing high-intensity radiation (1916-2002) |
| Rayleigh, Third Baron Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt | English physicist who studied the density / density of gases and discovered argon |
| Reaumur, Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur | French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757) |
| Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Rontgen, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen | German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923) |
| Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson | British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937) |
| Shockley, William Shockley, William Bradford Shockley | United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989) |
| Thompson, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford | English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction |
| Thomson, Joseph John Thomson, Sir Joseph John Thomson | English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940) |
| Thomson, George Paget Thomson, Sir George Paget Thomson | English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975) |
| Torricelli, Evangelista Torricelli | Italian physicist who invented the mercury barometer (1608-1647) |
| Tyndall, John Tyndall | British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments / experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere |
| Van Allen, James Alfred Van Allen | United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914) |
| Van Vleck, John Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck | United States physicist (1899-1980) |
| Van de Graaff, Robert Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison Van de Graaff | United States physicist (1901-1967) |
| Volta, Count Alessandro Volta, Conte Alessandro Volta, Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta | Italian physicist after whom the volt is named |
| Weber, Wilhelm Eduard Weber | German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber |
| Weinberg, Steven Weinberg | United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933) |
| Wheatstone, Sir Charles Wheatstone | English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875) |
| Wilson, Robert Woodrow Wilson | United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918) |
| Wollaston, William Hyde Wollaston | English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828) |
| Yang Chen Ning, Chen N. Yang | United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Tsung Dao Lee in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1922) |
| Young, Thomas Young | British physicist and Egyptologist |
| Zeeman, Pieter Zeeman | Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943) |
| Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin | United States physicist who invented the iconoscope (1889-1982) |
| van der Waals, Johannes van der Waals, Johannes Diderik van der Waals | Dutch physicist (1837-1923) |
| Narrower | Townes, Charles Townes, Charles Hard Townes | United States physicist who developed the laser and maser principles for producing high-intensity radiation (1915-) |
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| acoustician | A physicist who specializes in acoustics |
| astronomer, uranologist, stargazer | A physicist who studies astronomy |
| biophysicist | A physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology |
| nuclear physicist | A physicist who specializes in nuclear physics |
| Broader | scientist | A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences |
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| Spanish | física, físico |
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| Catalan | físic |
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| Nouns | physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions |
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