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Michelson, Albert Abraham
American physicist known for the invention of the Michelson interferometer and precision measurements of the speed of light.

Mobius, August Ferdinand
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.

Newton, Isaac
English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.

Oersted, Hans Christian
Hans Christian Oersted (Ørsted in Danish) was born on 14 August 1777 and he was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. Oersted's law and the oersted unit (Oe) are named after him.

Ohm, Georg Simon
A German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm began his research with the recently invented electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm determined that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. This relationship is now known as Ohm's law.

Pascal, Blaise
A French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

Rogowski, Walter
A German physicist who bridged the gap between theoretical physics and applied technology in numerous areas of electronics.

Ruska, Ernst August Friedrich
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska, the scientist who created the electron microscope, was born on December 25, 1906 in Berlin, Germany...

Shockley, William
William Bradford Shockley Jr. was born on February 13, 1910. He was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for "their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".

Stibitz, George
American mathematician, creator of one of the first electromechanical computing devices.


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