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Michael Faraday Michael Faraday, 1842 Born 22 September 1791 Newington Butts, England Died 25 August 1867 (aged 75) Hampton Court, Middlesex, England Residence United Kingdom Nationality English Fields Physics and Chemistry Institutions Royal Institution Known for Faraday's law of induction Electrochemistry Faraday effect Faraday cage Faraday constant Faraday cup Faraday's laws of electrolysis Faraday paradox Faraday rotator Faraday-efficiency effect Faraday wave Faraday wheel Lines of force Influences Humphry Davy William Thomas Brande
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Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday, 1842

Born 22 September 1791

Newington Butts, England

Died 25 August 1867 (aged 75)

Hampton Court, Middlesex, England

Residence United Kingdom

Nationality English

Fields Physics and Chemistry

Institutions Royal Institution

Known for Faraday's law of induction

Electrochemistry

Faraday effect

Faraday cage

Faraday constant

Faraday cup

Faraday's laws of electrolysis

Faraday paradox

Faraday rotator

Faraday-efficiency effect

Faraday wave

Faraday wheel

Lines of force

Influences Humphry Davy

William Thomas Brande

Notable awards Royal Medal (1835 & 1846)

Copley Medal (1832 & 1838)

Rumford Medal (1846)

Albert Medal (1866)

Signature

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein in 1921

Born 14 March 1879

Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg,German

Empire

Died 18 April 1955 (aged 76)

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Residence Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria

(today: Czech Republic), Belgium, United

States

Citizenship Kingdom of Württemberg (1879–1896)

Stateless (1896–1901)

Switzerland (1901–1955)

Austrian of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1911–1912)

German Empire (1914–1918)

Weimar Republic (1919–1933)

United States (1940–1955)

Fields Physics, Philosophy

Institutions Swiss Patent Office (Bern)

University of Zurich

Charles University in Prague

ETH Zurich

Caltech

Prussian Academy of Sciences

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

University of Leiden

Institute for Advanced Study

Alma mater

ETH Zurich

University of Zurich

Thesis Folgerungen aus den

Capillaritätserscheinungen[1] (1901)

Doctoral advisor Alfred Kleiner

Other academic

advisors Heinrich Friedrich Weber

Notable students Abdul Jabbar Abdullah

Ernst G. Straus

Nathan Rosen

Leó Szilárd

Raziuddin Siddiqui[2]

Known for General relativity and special relativity

Photoelectric effect

Mass-energy equivalence

Theory of Brownian Motion

Einstein field equations

Bose–Einstein statistics

Bose–Einstein condensate

Bose–Einstein correlations

Unified Field Theory

EPR paradox

Notable awards Barnard Medal (1920)

Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)

Matteucci Medal (1921)

Copley Medal (1925)[3]

Max Planck Medal (1929)

Time Person of the Century (1999)

Spouse Mileva Marić (1903–1919)

Elsa Löwenthal (1919–1936)

Children "Lieserl" (1902–1903?)

Hans Albert (1904–1973)

Eduard "Tete" (1910–1965)

Signature

James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)

Born 13 June 1831

Edinburgh, Scotland

Died 5 November 1879(aged 48)

Cambridge, England

Citizenship British

Nationality Scottish

Fields Physics and Mathematics

Institutions Marischal College, Aberdeen

King's College, London

University of Cambridge

Alma mater University of Edinburgh

University of Cambridge

Academic advisors William Hopkins

Notable students George Chrystal

Known for Maxwell's equations

Maxwell distribution

Maxwell's demon

Maxwell's discs

Maxwell speed distribution

Maxwell's theorem

Maxwell material

Generalized Maxwell model

Displacement current

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855), painted byChristian Albrecht

Jensen

Born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

30 April 1777

Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick-

Wolfenbüttel,Holy Roman Empire

Died 23 February 1855(aged 77)

Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover

Residence Kingdom of Hanover

Nationality German

Fields Mathematics and physics

Institutions University of Göttingen

Alma mater University of Helmstedt

Doctoral advisor Johann Friedrich Pfaff

Other academic

advisors Johann Christian Martin Bartels

Doctoral students Christoph Gudermann

Christian Ludwig Gerling

Richard Dedekind

Johann Listing

Bernhard Riemann

Christian Peters

Moritz Cantor

Born 14 June 1736

Angoulême, Angoumois, France

Died 23 August 1806 (aged 70)

Paris, France

Nationality French

Fields Physics

Known for Coulomb's law

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827). Posthumous portrait by

Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, 1838.

Born 23 March 1749

Beaumont-en-Auge,Normandy, France

Died 5 March 1827 (aged 77)

Paris, France

Nationality French

Fields Astronomer andMathematician

Institutions École Militaire (1769–1776)

Alma mater University of Caen

Academic advisors Jean d'Alembert

Christophe Gadbled

Pierre Le Canu

Doctoral students Siméon Denis Poisson

Known for [show]

Signature

Siméon Poisson

Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840)

Born 21 June 1781

Pithiviers, Orléanais, Kingdom of

France

(present-day Loiret, France)

Died 25 April 1840 (aged 58)

Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, Kingdom of

France

Nationality French

Fields Mathematics

Institutions École Polytechnique

Bureau des Longitudes

Faculté des Sciences

École de Saint-Cyr

Alma mater École Polytechnique

Doctoral advisor Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Doctoral students Michel Chasles

Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

Joseph Liouville

Other notable

students Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Known for Poisson process

Poisson equation

Poisson kernel

Poisson distribution

Poisson bracket

Poisson algebra

Poisson regression

Poisson summation formula

Poisson's spot

Poisson's ratio

Poisson zeros

Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution

Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation

Jean-Baptiste Biot

Jean-Baptiste Biot

Born 21 April 1774

Paris

Died 3 February 1862 (aged 87)

Paris

Nationality French

Fields Physics, astronomy andmathematics

Known for Biot–Savart law

Influenced Louis Pasteur, William Ritchie

Notable awards Rumford Medal (1840)

Signature

Bust of Félix Savart in the Institut de France located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris

Félix Savart (French: [savaʁ]; 30 June 1791 – 16 March 1841) was a physicist who is primarily

known for the Biot–Savart lawof electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his

colleague Jean-Baptiste Biot. His main interest was in acousticsand the study of vibrating

bodies.[1] A particular interest in the violin led him to create an experimental trapezoidal model. He

gave his name to the savart, a unit of measurement for musical intervals, and to Savart's wheel—

a device he used while investigating the range of human hearing.


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