Classical And Theoretical Physicists Before 1900

was an English physicist and inventor

was an English physicist

was a French physicist.

was a British physicist and mathematician.

was an Austrian physicist and philosopher

was a British physicist and hereditary peer

was a French physicist who invented the Foucault pendulum

was a German physicist

He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s

In 1890, Branly demonstrated what he later called the "radio-conductor"

was a Danish physicist

was a German physicist, philosopher, and experimental psychologist

was a French physicist

was a French physicist who, in 1849, measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy

was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer

a pioneering English physicist, electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor

was a Russian physicist of Baltic German descent who is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1834

was an Italian physicist and neurophysiologist who was a pioneer in the study of bioelectricity

was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent

was a French physicist known for his work in crystallography

was a German physicist known for developing Kundt's tube

was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics

was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy

was a Swiss physicist

was an Irish physicist

was a German mathematician and physicist

was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics

was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics (thermodynamics, optics, electrodynamics), and crystal forms

was a French physicist who invented the lead-acid battery in 1859

was a French physicist

His training was mostly in chemistry but his later research was mostly in physics

was an Italian physicist and meteorologist

was a German physicist

was a German experimental physicist

was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE

was a German physicist, known mostly for his work in electricity

was an American physicist and Johns Hopkins educator

was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics

was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist

was a German physicist

was a German physicist, known for his studies of electrical conductivity properties

was a German physicist

was a German physicist, geographer, and crystallographer

was a Dutch physicist who was Professor in Experimental physics at Leiden University

was a German physicist

was a German physicist

was an Italian physicist, who is best known for introducing the concept of radiation pressure

was an Austrian physicist

was a German physicist, who is known for his experiments on relativistic mass

was an Italian physicist, who was Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa

was a German physicist specialized in optics

was an Italian physicist who was one of the first scientists to produce microwaves

was an Italian physicist and National Fascist Party politician

was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges

was a German physicist who during his career was professor of physics at the Universities of Strassburg, Freiburg and Berlin

was a German physicist

was a German experimental physicist known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation

was a German experimental physicist

was an Austrian physicist and professor at the University of Vienna

was a German physicist

was a German physicist

was a German mathematician, physicist, and mineralogist

whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation (EMR) contributed to the development of radio

As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the Navier

He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Lord Kelvin

was a pioneer of fuel cell technology

was an Irish-born British innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics

known for hypothesising length contraction

his original work was mainly concerned with optics and spectroscopy

For his researches on liquid films, and his contributions to our knowledge of terrestrial magnetism

In 1872 he published his seminal work

establishing the right-hand rule used in physics

was a Dutch mathematician and physicist

was a French Huguenot physicist, mathematician and inventor

was a French physicist and priest

was an Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician

was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright

was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna

specializing in the fields of physics, mathematics and natural philosophy

was a Czech-German physicist, astronomer and engineer

was a French philosopher, physicist and mathematician

best known for his work on electricity and electrostatic repulsion

was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist

He was a mathematician, physicist and controversialist

was a German physicist, chemist, mineralogist, mining engineer and naturalist

was a physicist, artist, general, hydraulic engineer, cartographer

was a French physicist and Catholic Minimite theologian

was a German physicist and musician

chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics

was the first to systematically experiment with electrical conduction

was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason

He produced the earliest reasonably accurate measurement of the speed of sound

was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest

his fields of interest, mathematics and mechanics

established the relationship between fluid velocity and stagnation pressure in 1732

was a Swedish merchant, engineer and amateur physicist

was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist

was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician

an early investigator of electricity and electrical phenomena

form part of a general work on physics which he had planned

was a Dutch philosopher and scientist

was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer

was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746

Nowadays, Friedrich Kohlrausch is classed as one of the most important experimental physicists.

was a Hungarian physicist and politician

Jean-Daniel Colladon (15 December 1802, Geneva, 30 June 1893) was a Swiss physicist.

was an Alsatian physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer

He was among the first to use steam power in the design of a hydraulic machine.

He is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete (1600).

He also performed experiments with pendulums and observed that an electrically charged body can attract non-electrified objects.

was a French civil engineer and physicist

was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason

was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician

was a French physicist

he worked in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, geology, atmospherology, chemistry, meteorology and philosophy

was a Swiss physicist

was an English scientist, inventor and lecturer, specializing in the investigation of electricity

He became professor of physics at Leiden University in 1670.

carried out experiments into electricity with his friends

Istituzioni fisico-chimiche (4 vols., Rome, 1833-4)

who practiced or taught physical sciences.

invented an instrument that could measure the strength of the electricity discharged from a Leyden jar

In 1799 he published “Experiments on Colours” which was about colour theory.

was an American physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

In science he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics

was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile

(1792) Fizyka dla szkół narodowych

Around 1770, Adams invented the lucernal microscope

He also supported Newton's ideas in contrast to Cartesian views on light and wrote on Fermat's principle of least time in optics.

In 1785, he communicated to the Royal Society a paper containing 'Observations and Experiments on the Light of Bodies in a state of Combustion'.

Meanwhile, Dinwiddie was appointed as professor of natural philosophy at the Fort William College in 1801.

In 1823 he developed a portable baroscope.