Most Famous Physicists with Hints

These are the 111 most well-known physicists according to the Pantheon's (a database objectively ranking historical figures) 2022 HPI score. For each person, their nationality at birth (heritage), years of birth & death as well as a one-word hint are provided.

Includes astronomers and astrophysicists

Grey indicates physicists who are more well-known for contributions to other fields (maths, chemistry, engineering) or science communication

Excludes "scientists" from before the scientific revolution

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Nationality at birth	Hint	born–died	Physicist
English	Gravity	1643–1726	Isaac Newton
Italian	Telescope	1564–1642	Galileo Galilei
German	Relativity	1879–1955	Albert Einstein
German / Polish	Heliocentric	1473–1543	Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish	Radium	1867–1934	Marie Curie
French	Pressure	1623–1662	Blaise Pascal
German	Distribution	1777–1855	Carl Friedrich Gauß
German	Ellipses	1571–1630	Johannes Kepler
English	Wheelchair	1942–2018	Stephen Hawking
German	Calculus	1646–1716	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Swiss	e	1707–1783	Leonhard Euler
English	Induction	1791–1867	Michael Faraday
German	X-ray	1845–1923	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Italian	Battery	1745–1827	Alessandro Volta
German	Quantum	1858–1947	Max Planck
English	Spring	1635–1703	Robert Hooke
French	Paramagnetic	1859–1906	Pierre Curie
Danish	Electromagnetism	1777–1851	Hans Christian Ørsted
English	Chemistry	1766–1844	John Dalton
Scottish	Energy	1818–1889	James Prescott Joule
French	Current	1775–1836	André-Marie Ampère
New Zealand	Nucleus	1871–1937	Ernest Rutherford
Danish	Model	1885–1962	Niels Bohr
Scottish	Electromagnetism	1831–1879	James Clerk Maxwell
Danish	Astronomer	1546–1601	Tycho Brahe
Italian	Barometer	1608–1647	Evangelista Torricelli
German	Resistance	1789–1854	Georg Simon Ohm
Swedish	Degrees	1701–1744	Anders Celsius
Italian	Radio	1874–1937	Guglielmo Marconi
German	Uncertainty	1901–1976	Werner Heisenberg
French	Radioactivity	1852–1908	Henri Becquerel
Austrian	Cat	1887–1961	Erwin Schrödinger
Irish / English	Gas	1627–1691	Robert Boyle
French	Induced	1897–1956	Irène Joliot-Curie
Dutch	Titan	1629–1695	Christiaan Huygens
Italian	Paradox	1901–1954	Enrico Fermi
German	Frequency	1857–1894	Heinrich Hertz
French	Charge	1736–1806	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French	Statistics	1749–1827	Pierre-Simon Laplace
Hungarian	Computing	1903–1957	John von Neumann
Italian	Mole	1776–1856	Amedeo Avogadro
French	Mechanics	1736–1813	Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Italian	Bioelectricity	1737–1798	Luigi Galvani
Swedish	Climate	1859–1927	Svante Arrhenius
German	Uranus	1738–1822	William Herschel
French	Conjecture	1854–1912	Henri Poincaré
French	Encyclopédie	1717–1783	Jean le Rond d'Alembert
French	Series	1768–1830	Joseph Fourier
Swiss	Probability	1700–1782	Daniel Bernoulli
American	Diagram	1918–1988	Richard Feynman
American	Telescope	1889–1953	Edwin Hubble
Dutch	Transformation	1853–1928	Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
English	Hydrogen	1731–1810	Henry Cavendish
German	Black-body	1824–1887	Gustav Kirchhoff
French	Duality	1892–1987	Louis de Broglie
French	Analysis	1789–1857	Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Danish	c	1644–1710	Ole Rømer
German	Degrees	1686–1736	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
English	Magnetism	1544–1603	William Gilbert
English	QM	1902–1984	Paul Dirac
French	Pendulum	1819–1868	Léon Foucault
Austrian	Fission	1878–1968	Lise Meitner
Dutch	Effect	1865–1943	Pieter Zeeman
English	Electron	1856–1940	Joseph J. Thomson
Austrian	Exclusion	1900–1958	Wolfgang Pauli
French	Induced	1900–1958	Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Austrian	Sound	1838–1916	Ernst Mach
Soviet	Peace	1921–1989	Andrei Sakharov
English	Wave	1773–1829	Thomas Young
English	Neutron	1891–1974	James Chadwick
Dutch	Molecular	1837–1923	Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Austrian	Entropy	1844–1906	Ludwig Boltzmann
German	Radio	1850–1918	Karl Ferdinand Braun
German	Trichromatic	1821–1894	Hermann von Helmholtz
German	Fission	1879–1968	Otto Hahn
French	Volume	1778–1850	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Austrian	Effect	1803–1853	Christian Doppler
American	Cosmos	1934–1996	Carl Sagan
German	Displacement	1864–1928	Wilhelm Wien
Belgian	Expansion	1894–1966	Georges Lemaître
German	Cathode	1862–1947	Philipp Lenard
Dutch	Superconductivity	1853–1926	Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
German	QM	1882–1970	Max Born
German	Conservation	1882–1935	Emmy Noether
American	Bomb	1904–1967	J. Robert Oppenheimer
American	Neptunium	1907–1991	Edwin McMillan
German	Vacuum	1602–1686	Otto von Guericke
French	Photography	1845–1921	Gabriel Lippmann
Italian	Saturn	1625–1712	Giovanni Domenico Cassini
German	Thermodynamics	1822–1888	Rudolf Clausius
Scottish	Cloud	1869–1959	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Russian	Geology	1711–1765	Mikhail Lomonosov
French	Elasticity	1776–1831	Sophie Germain
Dutch	Phonons	1884–1966	Peter Debye
German	Shell	1906–1972	Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Soviet	Superfluidity	1908–1968	Lev Landau
French	Clockwise	1792–1843	Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
German	Spin	1888–1969	Otto Stern
American	e	1868–1953	Robert Andrews Millikan
German / Bal- tic / Russian	Electrodynamics	1804–1865	Emil Lenz
English	BH	1931–	Roger Penrose
British	Temperature	1824–1907	Lord Kelvin
English	Scattering	1842–1907	Baron Rayleigh
German	Crystallography	1879–1960	Max von Laue
Irish	Operator	1805–1865	William Rowan Hamilton
German	Microscopes	1816–1888	Carl Zeiss
Irish	Fluid	1819–1903	George Stokes
American	Hayden	1958–	Neil deGrasse Tyson
French	Brownian	1870–1942	Jean Baptiste Perrin
English	Diffraction	1890–1971	Lawrence Bragg
German	Flux	1804–1891	Wilhelm Eduard Weber

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