Famous Physicists
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Amanda Barnard
In 2001, she graduated with a first-class honours science degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), majoring in applied physics. Barnard received a PhD in 2003 from RMIT for her computer modelling work predicting and explaining various forms of nanocarbon at different sizes.[3] Following her PhD, Barnard served as a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory (USA). She also held a senior research position as Violette & Samuel Glasstone Fellow at the University of Oxford (UK) with an Extraordinary Research Fellowship at The Queen's College. Professor Barnard then moved to CSIRO as an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, an Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader, and finally as a Chief Research Scientist spanning 2009 to 2020. | |
Archimedes
Birthdate: 0287 AD Birthplace: Syracuse, Italy Died: 0212 AD Greek mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Archimedes is remembered for his contribution to mathematics, especially geometry. He laid down theorems related to the area of a circle, and the area and volume of a sphere, and reached an accurate value of pi. He also invented machines such as the screw pump. | |
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Blaise Pascal
Birthdate: June 19, 1623 Sun Sign: Gemini Birthplace: Clermont-Ferrand, France Died: August 19, 1662 Blaise Pascal was a French physicist, mathematician, philosopher, and inventor. A child prodigy, Pascal's work on projective geometry, at the age of 16 is commendable. He is one of the earliest inventors of the mechanical calculator, which he did when he was still a teenager. His work on probability theory influenced the development of social science and modern economics. | |
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C. V. Raman
Birthdate: November 7, 1888 Sun Sign: Scorpio Birthplace: Tiruchirappalli, Madras Province Died: November 21, 1970 Indian physicist C.V. Raman earned the Nobel Prize in Physics after discovering the Raman effect. He was the first director of the IISc and founded the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Raman Research Institute. He destroyed his Bharat Ratna medal in protest against Jawaharlal Nehru’s policies on science. | |
Carl F. Gauss
Birthdate: April 30, 1777 Sun Sign: Taurus Birthplace: Brunswick, Germany Died: February 23, 1855 German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss is remembered for his work in math and science. Known as the Princeps mathematicorum, he laid down tenets such as the Gauss's Law. He had exhibited his talent since an early age and had completed writing Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by 21. | |
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion. | |
Count Alessandro Volta
Birthdate: February 18, 1745 Sun Sign: Aquarius Birthplace: Como, Duchy of Milan, Italy Died: March 5, 1827 While Alessandro Volta was a count by birth and was supposed to become a lawyer or a priest, he became a scientist instead. His invention of the battery led to the SI unit of electric potential being named volt. He was also the first to isolate methane gas. | |
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Enrico Fermi Birthdate: September 29, 1901 Sun Sign: Libra Birthplace: Rome, Italy Died: November 28, 1954 Italian physicist Enrico Fermi created the Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor. Known widely as the "architect of the atomic bomb," he was equally proficient in theoretical and experimental physics, and won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on radioactivity and for discovering transuranium elements. | |
Ernest Rutherford
Birthdate: August 30, 1871 Sun Sign: Virgo Birthplace: Brightwater, New Zealand Died: October 19, 1937 New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford is remembered as the father of nuclear physics. His discovery of radioactive half-life and of radon, and his differentiation of alpha and beta radiation, won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. Element 104 was named rutherfordium in his honor. | |
