Cross-Cutting Reference · 46 of 50+ Live
Physicist Biographies
The people whose insights and experiments built modern physics — their major contributions, named laws and equations, careers, key publications, and the historical context that shaped their work.
Live biographies
- Isaac Newton [DONE — Session 04]
- James Clerk Maxwell [DONE — Session 04]
- Albert Einstein [DONE — Session 05]
- Niels Bohr [DONE — Session 05]
- Werner Heisenberg [DONE — Session 06]
- Max Planck [DONE — Session 06]
- Michael Faraday [DONE — Session 07]
- Georg Ohm [DONE — Session 07]
- Alessandro Volta [DONE — Session 08]
- André-Marie Ampère [DONE — Session 08]
- Hendrik Lorentz [DONE — Session 09]
- Hermann Minkowski [DONE — Session 09]
- Karl Schwarzschild [DONE — Session 10]
- John Wheeler [DONE — Session 10]
- Marie Curie [DONE — Session 11]
- Ernest Rutherford [DONE — Session 11]
- James Chadwick [DONE — Session 12]
- Enrico Fermi [DONE — Session 12]
- Murray Gell-Mann [DONE — Session 13]
- Wolfgang Pauli [DONE — Session 13]
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes [DONE — Session 14]
- John Bardeen [DONE — Session 14]
- Felix Bloch [DONE — Session 15]
- Lev Landau [DONE — Session 15]
- Pyotr Kapitsa [DONE — Session 16]
- Louis Néel [DONE — Session 16]
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar [DONE — Session 17]
- Edwin Hubble [DONE — Session 17]
- Vera Rubin [DONE — Session 18]
- Georges Lemaître [DONE — Session 18]
- Rainer Weiss [DONE — Session 19]
- Kip Thorne [DONE — Session 19]
- Barry Barish [DONE — Session 20 — 2026-08-05]
- Andrea Ghez [DONE — Session 20 — 2026-08-05]
- Reinhard Genzel [DONE — Session 21 — 2026-10-12]
- George Gamow [DONE — Session 21 — 2026-10-12]
- Fritz Zwicky [DONE — Session 22 — 2026-10-12]
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell [DONE — Session 22 — 2026-10-12]
- Ludwig Boltzmann [DONE — Session 24 — 2026-10-12]
- Rudolf Clausius [DONE — Session 24 — 2026-10-12]
- Sadi Carnot [DONE — Session 25 — 2026-10-12]
- Josiah Willard Gibbs [DONE — Session 25 — 2026-10-12]
- Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) [DONE — Session 26 — 2026-10-12]
- James Prescott Joule [DONE — Session 26 — 2026-10-12]
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals [DONE — Session 27 — 2026-10-12]
- Walther Nernst [DONE — Session 27 — 2026-10-12]
Planned (Priority 20 list)
Galileo Galilei, Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, J.J. Thomson, Louis de Broglie, Lise Meitner, Satyendra Nath Bose, C.V. Raman, Otto Hahn, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg, William Shockley, Walter Brattain, Pierre Curie, Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson — all [PENDING FULL ENTRY].
Sources
- Individual biography pages cite their own primary sources — see each page.
Last verified: August 2026 · Confidence: high · Coverage: 46 / 50+ biographies live