Physicists

Physicists

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made (particle physics) to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole (cosmology).

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Karl Ernst von Baer

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Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn, also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer, was an Estonian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a founding father of ...

Ralph H. Baer

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Ralph H. Baer is a German-born American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer, known as "The Father of Video Games", who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry. In ...

Spanman Hungermann

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Spanman Hungermann was a German physisist. He was born in 1900 in Breslau and moved to Berlin in his early twenties. He invented a lot of machines, e.g. the egg machine and the foot mover.He won many ...

Stephen Hawking

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Prominent scientist, professor and author of multiple popular science books, including ‘A Brief History of Time’. Particularly famous for his theorems related to gravitational singularities, the ...

Benjamin Carson

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Benjamin Solomon Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 18, 1951. He is the second son of Sonya and Robert Solomon Carson. Ben grew up in a tough environment of inner-city Detroit. When ...

Albert Einstein

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Developer of the theories of special and general relativity, which changed the way scientists see our world. In 1950 he published five landmark scientific papers, any one of which would have been ...

Isaac Newton

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Scientist who summarized all of the findings of all great scientists before him, such as Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Tyco Brahe. The author of the revolutionary work, Principia, he is also ...