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Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.
A French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.
Carl David Anderson, American physicist, was born on September 3, 1905. He is known for the discovery of the positron, an achievement for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936.
Philip Warren Anderson was born on December 13, 1923. He was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau 23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist who, in 1849 measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy. In 1851, he measured the speed of light in moving water in an experiment known as the Fizeau experiment. 
Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules.
John Bardeen was born on May 23, 1908. American physicist who was cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in both 1956 and 1972. He shared the 1956 prize with William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattain for their joint invention of the transistor. With Leon N. Cooper and John R. Schrieffer he was awarded the 1972 prize for development of the theory of superconductivity.
Jean-Maurice-Emile Baudot was born on September 11, 1845, he was a French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications.
Becquerel, Antoine Henri was born on December 15, 1852. He was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover radioactivity.
Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T).
André-Eugène Blondel was a French engineer and physicist. He is the inventor of the electromechanical oscillograph and a system of photometric units of measurement.
Max Born was born on December 11, in 1882. He was a German-British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. Born was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
Walter Houser Brattain was born on February 10, 1902 and he was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947. Together they won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention.
Karl Ferdinand Braun was born on June 6, 1850. He was a German electrical engineer, physicist, and inventor.
Henry Cavendish was born on October 10 in 1731. He was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist.
A Swedish astronomer, talented mathematician, a professor of astronomy at Uppsala University, the first to perform and publish careful experiments aiming at the definition of an international temperature scale on scientific grounds.
French physicist. He was best known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named after him.
Arthur Holly Compton was born on September 10, 1892, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1927. Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1927).
Polish and French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize twice.
Jean le Rond d'Alembert was born on November 16, 1717. He was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher who believed that all truth could be derived from a single, ultimate, yet-to-be-discovered mathematical principle. He considered mathematics the ideal form of knowledge, and the laws of physics to be the fundamental principles of the world.
American inventor and businessman who developed lots of devices in electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
A German theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics.
Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. However the most famous achievement of Eratosthenes in the field of geography was the method he invented to measure the size of the Earth.
A Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer (1709) and the mercury thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.
English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
Enrico Fermi was born on September 29, 1901. He was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
Sir John Ambrose Fleming was born on November 29, in 1849. He was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, and also established the right-hand rule used in physics.
German physicist who was the first to create a detector of alpha particles and other ionizing radiation.
Louis Harold Gray was born on 10 November, 1905. He was an English physicist who worked mainly on the effects of radiation on biological systems.
John Hadley was born on April 16, 1682. He was an English mathematician, and laid claim to the invention of the octant.
Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8 in 1942. He was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.
An American scientist who while building electromagnets discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance, discovered mutual inductance, also he is an inventor of the electric doorbell (1831) and relay (1835).
A German physicist who clarified and expanded James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light, which was first demonstrated by David Edward Hughes using non-rigorous trial and error procedures. Hertz is distinguished from Maxwell and Hughes because he was the first to conclusively prove the existence of electromagnetic waves by engineering instruments to transmit and receive radio pulses using experimental procedures that ruled out all other known wireless phenomena. The scientific unit of frequency — cycles per second — was named the "hertz" in his honor.
French chemist, physicist and politician, the elder daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska–Curie…
Brian David Josephson was born on January 4, 1940. He is a British theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunneling.
An English physicist, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. This led to the theory of conservation of energy, which led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him.
Chinese, British and American scientist, engineer-physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2009) for achievements in the field of light transmission over fiber optic channels, known as the "Father of fiber communications."
Wolfgang Ketterle was born on October 21, 1957. He is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958.
He is also the inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he has patents. He also has patents for seven other inventions. 
Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist, a recognized teacher of several generations of theorists.
Jules Antoine Lissajous made numerous works on acoustics and optics. He studied vibrations of thin plates and wave propagation. In 1855 he developed an optical method for studying the addition of oscillations using so-called "Lissajous figures".
Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science.
Ada Lovelace is an English mathematician best known for her work on Charles Babbage’s analytical engine. She became the first person to realize that this device is capable of more than elementary calculations, and she was also the first one to publish an algorithm designed for this machine.
Inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system.
Scottish mathematical physicist. His most prominent achievement was to formulate a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism, and optics as manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field. Maxwell's achievements concerning electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics", after the first one realised by Isaac Newton.
John McCarthy was born on September 4, 1927. American computer scientist, author of the term "artificial intelligence" (1956), inventor of the Lisp language (1958), founder of functional programming, winner of the Turing Award (1971) for his enormous contribution to the field of artificial intelligence research.
Edwin Mattison McMillan was born on September 18, 1907. He was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg.
American physicist known for the invention of the Michelson interferometer and precision measurements of the speed of light.
August Ferdinand Möbius was born on November 17, 1790 in Schulpforta, Electorate of Saxony.
He is best known for his discovery of the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
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