James Clerk Maxwell

Made great strides in understanding electro-magnetism. His research in electricity and kinetics,
laid foundation for quantum physics. Einstein said of Maxwell, The work of James Clerk
Maxwell changed the world forever.
Maxwell is the physicists physicist..Stephen Hawking
He achieved greatness unequaled.. Max Planck

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam ( i/bdl klm/; born 15 October 1931) is an Indian
scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. Kalam
 was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, studied physics at the St. Joseph's College,
Tiruchirappalli, and aerospace engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Before his term as President, he worked as an Aerospace engineer with Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).[1] Kalam
is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic
missile and launch vehicle technology.[2] He played a pivotal organisational, technical and
political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by
India in 1974.[3]

Satyendra Nath Bose

Mathematician and physicist; best known for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in
formulating a theory related to the gas like qualities of electromagnetic radiation.

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (b. Konigsberg, Germany, 12th March 1824, d. Berlin, Germany, 17th
October 1887) was a physicist. His father was a law councilor. Kirchhoff easily derived
Kirchhoff's voltage law for electrical network analysis between 1845-1846, while he was still a
student at Konigsberg. In 1849, following the experiments of Kohlrausch, he introduced
Kirchhoff's current law for electrical network analysis. He graduated in 1847 and married Clara
Richelot

MORSE, SAMUEL F. B.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an American inventor and
painter. After a successful career painting in oils (first painting historical scenes
and then portraits), Morse built the first American telegraph around 1835 (the
telegraph was also being developed independently in Europe)

Georg Ohm

Georg Simon Ohm, more commonly known as Georg Ohm, was a German physicist, best known
for his Ohms Law, which implies that the current flow through a conductor is directly
proportional to the potential difference (voltage) and inversely proportional to the resistance. The
physical unit of electrical resistance, the Ohm, also was named after him.

Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer and inventor who is highly regarded in energy
history for his development of alternating current (AC) electrical systems. He also made
extraordinary contributions in the fields of electromagnetism and wireless radio communications.

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Physicist, biologist and archaeologist who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave
optics.

William Gilbert
 William Gilbert, also known as Gilbert, was an
English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both
the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university
teaching

Frank Wilfred Jordan

Frank Wilfred Jordan was a British physicist who together with William Henry Eccles
invented the so-called "flip-flop" circuit in 1918. This circuit became the basis of
electronic memory in computers

Jack Kilby
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the
realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on December 10, 2000

Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist. He is considered the father of India's space
programme.

Charles-Augustin Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was an eminent French physicist. He formulated the
Coulombs law, which deals with the electrostatic interaction between electrically
charged particles. The coulomb, SI unit of electric charge, was named after him.

Michael Faraday

English scientist and physicist, Michael Faraday is known for his brilliant discoveries of electro-
magnetic induction, electro-magnetic rotations, the magneto-optical effect, diamagnetism, field
theory and much more. Many famous historians regard him as the most influential and
exemplary experimentalist in the history of science. The incredible scope and profundity of
Faradays work spanned a time of 60 years. He is considered as one of the top figures of the 19th
century for his remarkable contribution in the field of electricity.
John Bardeen

John Bardeen was an eminent American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize twice. In 1956, with
fellow scientists William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattainhe, Bardeen shared the award for
the invention of the transistor. He received the award for the second time in 1972, with Leon N.
Cooper and John R. Schrieffer, for formulating the theory of superconductivity. Bardeen thus
revolutionized the fields of electronics and magnetic resonance imaging.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin lived his life in the spirit of a renaissance man: he was deeply interested in
the world around him, and he excelled in several widely differing fields of human endeavor.
He had a profound effect on our understanding of electricity and shaped the language we use
when we talk about it, even today.

Here we shall concentrate on his life as a scientist and an inventor, only briefly touching on his
other achievements.

George Boole

George Boole was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields
of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is now best known as the author of The Laws of
Thought

Walter Schottky
Walter Schottky is a famous name in the fields of electronics and physics. Today, a lot of devices
used in these fields bear his name, and some scientific phenomena are also named after him. Two
of the most famous are the Schottky effect, where there is an irregularity in thermion emissions
when inside a vacuum tube, and the Schottky defect which describes a certain crystal lattice
vacancy that results from the displacement of an ion to the surface of a crystal. He has made a
significant number of contributions for solid-state physics and electronics and is also known as
an inventor

Augustus De Morgan

Mathematician
Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's
laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.

Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist, is well-known for his achievements in both theoretical and
experimental physics. This is an exceptional achievement in a period where scientific
accomplishments have focused on one aspect or the other. He is mainly remembered for his work
on the advancement of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of
quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his discovery of new radioactive elements produced by
neutron irradiation, and for the discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz

There are many important and notable names in the world of physics that have done a lot to
improve the way people view and understand the world. There are times when they make
contributions so significant that they get the highly sought after Nobel Prize. One man who
belongs to the field of physics who also nabbed a Nobel Prize is the experimental physicist
Gustav Ludwig Hertz from Germany. His uncle was Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, another famous
German physicist.

Nicolay Basov
 Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in
the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the
1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.[1]

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (b. Hamburg, Germany, 22nd Feb. 1857, d. Bonn, Germany, 1st January
1894), a physicist, whose research has come to be regarded as the starting point of radio - it was
he who first detected and measured electromagnetic waves in space. The SI unit of frequency
was named after him as the Hertz (Hz). His grandfather, Heinrich David Hertz, the youngest son
of a wealthy Jewish family was converted to the Lutheran faith along with his wife and children.
David Heinrich Hertz's son, Gustav, became a Minister of Justice and was the first to attend a
university in the family. .
Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Bhabha (19091966)

Homi Jahangir Bhabha, 30 October 1909 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist,
founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.[2][3]
Colloquially known as "father of Indian nuclear programme",[4] Bhabha was the founding
director of two well-known research institutions, namely the Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research (TIFR) and the Trombay Atomic Energy Establishment (now named after him); both
sites were the cornerstone of Indian development of nuclear weapons which Bhabha also
supervised as its director.[2][4]

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, who contributed
significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential
geometry, geodesy, geophysics, ...