Famous Physicists in Appendix D of Physics Handbook

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Ampère, André M. (1775-1836)
Ångström, Anders Jonas (1814-1874)
Archimedes of Syracuse (ca 287-212 BC)

Becquerel, A. Henri (1852-1908)
Bohr, Niels (1885-1962)
Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844-1906)
de Broglie, Louis (1892-1987)

Celsius, Anders (1701-1744)
Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962)
Copernicus, Nicholaus (1473-1543)
Curie, Marie, born Sklodowska (1867-1934)
Curie, Pierre (1859-1906)

Dirac, Paul A. M. (1902-1984)

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)

Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954)
Fresnel, Augustin (1788-1827)

Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
Gamow, George (1904-1968)

Heisenberg, Werner (1901-1976)
Hubble, Edwin (1889-1953)
Huygens, Christian (1629-1695)

Joule, James P. (1818-1889)

Kelvin, William Thomson (1824-1907)
Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)
Kirchhoff, Gustav (1824-1887)

Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879)
Meitner, Lise (1878-1968)

Newton, Isaac (1643-1727, Gregorian time)

Pauli, Wolfgang (1900-1958)
Planck, Max (1858-1947)

Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923)
Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937)

Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1961)

Tesla, Nicola (1856-1943)

Volta, Alessandro (1745-1827)

van der Waals, Johannes Diderik (1837-1923)
Watt, James (1736-1819)


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