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Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday is often referred to as the "father of electromagnetism" due to his groundbreaking contributions to the field. He was the first to produce an electric current from a magnetic field and invented the first electric motor and dynamo.

Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli

Predicted the existence of neutrinos in 1930, laying the foundation for the study of these elusive particles.

Sir Issac Newton

Sir Issac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was an English mathematician and physicist. He is considered one of the greatest scientists in history and a founder of modern physics.

Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian theoretical physicist who contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics.

Gary Ackers

Gary Ackers

Was Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt

in 1963 became the first astronomer to identify a quasar, a small, intensely bright object several billion light years away, and in the process upended standard descriptions of the universe and revolutionized ideas about its evolution, died on Sept. 17 at his home in Fresno, Calif.