Appleton, Sir Edward Victor

Appleton, Sir Edward Victor (1892-1965), a British physicist, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics... More >>

Aston, Francis William

Aston, Francis William (1877-1945), was an English physicist. In 1919, he invented the mass... More >>

Barkla, Charles Glover

Barkla, Charles Glover (1877-1944), an English physicist, carried out important research into X... More >>

Bowen, Edward

Bowen, Edward (1911-1991), a British radiophysicist, was part of the team that developed radar.... More >>

Bragg, Sir William Henry

Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942), was a British physicist. He and his son, Sir William... More >>

Bragg, Sir William Lawrence

Bragg, Sir William Lawrence (1890-1971), a British physicist, used X rays to discover the atomic... More >>

Chadwick, Sir James

Chadwick, Sir James (1891-1974), a British physicist, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for his... More >>

Cherwell, Lord

Cherwell, Lord (1886-1957), a German-born British physicist, was an adviser on science and... More >>

Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas

Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas (1897-1967), a British nuclear physicist, won the 1951 Nobel Prize in... More >>

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

Dirac, dih RAK, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984), a British theoretical physicist, became noted... More >>

Hawking, Stephen William

Hawking, Stephen William (1942-...), is a British theoretical physicist. He has made what are... More >>

Heaviside, Oliver

Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925), an English mathematical physicist, suggested correctly that a... More >>

Hewish, Antony

Hewish, Antony (1924-...), a British astronomer and astrophysicist, won the 1974 Nobel Prize for... More >>

Higgs, Peter Ware

Higgs, Peter Ware (1929-...), a British physicist, developed a theory to answer a fundamental... More >>

Hooke, Robert

Hooke, Robert (1635-1703), an English experimental scientist, stated the currently accepted... More >>