Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Enrico Fermi
Read about the work of Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and learn how he showed the world the power of the atom.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Tsung Dao Lee
Wikipedia provides biographical information on Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist who recieved the Nobel Prize at the age of thirty-one.
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: What Is the Definition of Energy?
Use this illustrated guide to understand the definition of energy. Includes some facinating quotes from famous physicists.
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Wikipedia: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
Spanish-language site lets students discover the life and work of this physicist and engineer, who is known for his studies of electric charges.
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Wikipedia: Henri Poincare
Mathematics and Science often go together in physics and other studies. This site explores a physicist who utilized both fields to advance the ideas of relativity and other concepts.
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Wikipedia: Werner Heisenberg
In this Spanish-language entry, trace the life and accomplishments of Werner Heisenberg, the great physicist whose work with quantum mechanics resulted in earning the Nobel Prize.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Science, Optics & You: Albert Einstein
Biography of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), one of the most famous physicists of the last century, best known for his theory of relativity.
Other
Biography of Richard Feynman
This biography of the physicist Richard Feynman surveys his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb as well as his work on quantum electrostatics.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Heinrich Hertz
The discovery of radio waves, which was widely seen as confirmation of James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and paved the way for numerous advances in communication technology, was made by German physicist Heinrich Hertz. In the...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Murray Gell Mann
Murray Gell-Mann is a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969 for his contributions to elementary particle physics. He is particularly well known for his role in bringing organization into the world of subatomic...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz
At the turn of the 19th century, scientists were beginning to gain a rudimentary understanding of electricity and magnetism, but they knew almost nothing about the relationship between the two. Baltic German physicist Heinrich Lenz took...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Klaus Von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing is a Nobel laureate who won the award in 1985 for his discovery of the quantized Hall effect, sometimes referred to as the quantum Hall effect. Von Klitzing's discovery resulted from his work exploring a phenomenon...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist who first observed the phenomenon of superconductivity while carrying out pioneering work in the field of cryogenics. An important step on the way to this discovery was his success in...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Isidor Isaac Rabi
Isidor Isaac Rabi won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his development of a technique for measuring the magnetic characteristics of atomic nuclei. Rabi's technique was based on the resonance principle first described by Irish...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Joseph John Thomson
Joseph John Thomson, better known as J. J. Thomson, was a British physicist who first theorized and offered experimental evidence that the atom was a divisible entity rather than the basic unit of matter, as was widely believed at the...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Sin Itiro Tomonaga
Japanese theoretical physicist Sin-Itiro Tomonaga resolved key problems with the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) developed by Paul Dirac in the late 1920s through the use of a mathematical technique he referred to as...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Arthur Eddington
Learn about English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, Arthur Eddington. He is noted for his groundbreaking research work in astrophysics.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: David Bohm
Learn about the life and work of quantum physicist, David Bohm, who was a leading expert in the fields of theoretical physics, neuropsychology, and philosophy.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Ernst Mach
Read about the life and work of this Austrian physicist and philosopher, known for his contributions to physics with the Mach number and the study of shock waves.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Stephen Hawking
Learn about the life and work of the famous Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, and cosmologist.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Walter Schottky
Learna about the life and work of the German physicist who played a major role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Werner Heisenberg
Find out about German scientist, Werner Heisenberg, a theoretical physicist who was one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Otto Stern Biographical
This is a brief biography on the life and scientific work of Otto Stern, a physicist honored with the Nobel Prize in physics for his "development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Max Planck
This site is a mixture of a short biography and quotes on German physicist Max Planck.