Famous physicists
scientist who does research in physics
1,281 people
William Shockley
1910
– 1989
· Age 79
Deceased
Roger Bacon
1220
– 1292
· Age 72
Deceased
Lise Meitner
1878
– 1968
· Age 89
Deceased
Murray Gell-Mann
1929
– 2019
· Age 89
Deceased
William Lawrence Bragg
1890
– 1971
· Age 81
Deceased
Roger Penrose
1931
· Age 94
Alive
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1853
– 1926
· Age 72
Deceased
Ernst Mach
1838
– 1916
· Age 78
Deceased
Claudia Sheinbaum
1962
· Age 63
Alive
Joseph Priestley
1733
– 1804
· Age 70
Deceased
Sofia Kovalevskaya
1850
– 1891
· Age 41
Deceased
Henry Cavendish
1731
– 1810
· Age 78
Deceased
Pyotr Kapitsa
1894
– 1984
· Age 89
Deceased
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1869
– 1959
· Age 90
Deceased
Ludwig Boltzmann
1844
– 1906
· Age 62
Deceased
Brian May
1947
· Age 78
Alive
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910
– 1995
· Age 84
Deceased
Wilhelm Ostwald
1853
– 1932
· Age 78
Deceased
Thomas Young
1773
– 1829
· Age 55
Deceased
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1707
– 1788
· Age 80
Deceased
Otto Stern
1888
– 1969
· Age 81
Deceased
Alfred Wegener
1880
– 1930
· Age 50
Deceased
John Frederick William Herschel
1792
– 1871
· Age 79
Deceased
Daniel Bernoulli
1700
– 1782
· Age 82
Deceased
Arthur Holly Compton
1892
– 1962
· Age 69
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q169470