This category is dedicated to those men and women who made decisive contributions to the advance of physics during the time they lived in. They were specialists who studied a wide range of physical phenomena spanning all length scales: from the sub-atomic particles, from which all ordinary matter is made (particle physics) to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole (cosmology).
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- Niels Bohr Information about his life, contributions to physics, and theories. Reference books and links to websites of interest.
- Enrico Fermi Biography of the physicist who built the first experimental nuclear reactor, the Atomic Pile of the University of Chicago, USA.
- Erwin Schrödinger Personal life, works, and achievements of the physicist who developed the quantum mechanics, by the Nobel Prize Organization.
- Louis de Broglie A biography of the French scientist who postulated the wave nature of electrons, one of the basis of the quantum physics.
- Robert A. Millikan Personal life, fields of work, and achievements of the scientist who measured the charge of an electron, by the Nobel Prize Organization.
- Niels Bohr A biography by the Nobel Price Organization including personal life, topics of study, achievements, and awards.
- Max Planck Personal life, works, and achievements of the man who was the father of the quantum physics, by the Nobel Prize Organization.
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes A biography of the father of superconductivity by the Nobel Prize Organization.
- Albert A. Michelson A biography of the physicist whose optical experiments served as a foundation to the theory of relativity.
- List of Physicists A Wikipedia page which displays in alphabetical order links to biographies of the most famous physicists in history.