Biographies

March 17, 2025

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who is best known for his discovery of vitamins, for which he shared ... Read more

March 17, 2025

Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Kirchhoff was a German physicist who greatly influenced and contributed the foundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the ... Read more

March 17, 2025

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was a French-Polish physicist and chemist known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. Early life Marie Salomea Skłodowska ... Read more

March 17, 2025

Max Planck

Max Planck, German physicist considered to be the father of Quantum theory. Early life Max Planck was born on April ... Read more

March 17, 2025

Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel Prize winner in category of Physics. Early life Hans Bethe ... Read more

March 17, 2025

Hans Selye

Hans Hugo Bruno Selye was a Austro-Hungarian scientist, considered to be one of the pioneers of endocrinology. Early life Hans ... Read more

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Early life Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was born on September ... Read more

March 17, 2025

James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule was an English physicist who studied the nature of heat and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. ... Read more

March 17, 2025

John Bardeen

John Bardeen was an American electrical engineer and physicist best known for his theory of superconductivity and the discovery of ... Read more

March 17, 2025

Werhner Von Braun

Werhner Von Braun was a German-born scientist who is considered to be among the pioneers of rocket and space research. ... Read more