Prominent Experimental Physicists
Famous experimental physicists include:
- Alhacen (965–1039)
- Carl David Anderson (1905–1991)
- John Bardeen (1908–1991)
- Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)
- Gerd Binnig (1947–Present)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973–1043)
- Patrick Blackett (Baron Blackett) (1897–1974)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–Present)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
- William Henry Bragg (1862–1942)
- William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971)
- Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918)
- James Chadwick (1891–1974)
- Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904–1990)
- Steven Chu (1948–Present)
- John Cockcroft (1897–1967)
- Marie Curie (1867–1934)
- Clinton Davisson (1881–1958)
- Charles Drummond Ellis (1895–1980)
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867)
- Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- Al-Khazini (fl. 1115-1130)
- Max von Laue (1879–1960)
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958)
- Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
- Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931)
- Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953)
- Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962)
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970)
- John William Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh) (1842–1919)
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923)
- Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
- William Bradford Shockley (1910–1989)
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
- Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940)
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Famous quotes containing the words prominent, experimental and/or physicists:
“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because ‘experimental method’ used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.”
—Ian Hacking (b. 1936)
“We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)