2. Johannes Kepler
Date and place of birth 27 December 1571 Weil der Stadt,
Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)
Date and place of death 15 November 1630 Regensburg,
Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)
Nationality German
Area in which he worked Mathematician, Astronomer and
Astrologer
Education University of Tübingen
Worked in University of Graz
University of Linz
Known for Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Kepler conjecture
Optics
Awards Crater on Mars
Lunar Crater
3. James Prescott Joule
Date and place of birth 24 December 1818 Salford, England
Date and place of death 11 October 1889 Sale, England
Nationality British
Area in which he worked Physics
Education Private Student
Worked in ------------------------------------------------
Known for First law of thermodynamics
Disproving Caloric Theory
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society (1850)
Royal Medal (1852)
Copley Medal (1870)
Albert Medal (1880)
4. Date and place of birth 20 October 1891 Bollington, Cheshire,
England
Date and place of death 24 July 1974 Cambridge, England
Nationality English
Area in which he worked Physics
Education University of Manchester, University of
Cambridge
Worked in Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt
University of Liverpool
Known for Discovery of the neutron, MAUD
Committee Report, Manhattan Project
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society, Hughes
Medal, Mackenzie-Davidson Medal,
Nobel Prize in Physics, Knight Bachelor,
Melchett Medal, Copley Medal, Faraday
Medal, Franklin Medal, Guthrie Medal
and Prize, Companion of Honour
James Chadwick
5. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Date and place of birth 18 July 1853 Arnhem, Netherlands
Date and place of death 4 February 1928 Haarlem, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Area in which he worked Physics
Education School of Arnhem
University of Leyden
Worked in University of Leyden
Known for Lorentz Force
Lorentz Transformation
Zeeman Effect
Awards Nobel Prize for Physics (1902)
Rumford Medal (1908)
Copley Medal (1918)
Lunar Crater
6. Date and place of birth 16 March 1789 Erlangen, Germany
Date and place of death 6 July 1854 Munich, Germany
Nationality German
Area in which he worked Physichs, Phonetics
Education Erlangen Gymnasium
University of Erlangen
University Nuremberg
Worked in Jesuit Gymnasium of Cologne
Polytechnic School of Nuremberg
University of Munich
Known for Ohm’s law
Ohm’s phase law
Ohm’s acoustic law
Awards Copley Medal (1841)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1842)
Lunar Crater
Georg Simon Ohm
7. Date and place of birth 15 October 1608 Faenza, Italy
Date and place of death 25 October 1647 Firenze, Italy
Nationality Italian
Area in which he worked Physicist, Mathematician
Education Jesuit College
University of Sapienza in Rome
Worked in Professor of Florence Academy of
Mathematics
Known for free fall and throw laws
differential calculus
microscope
barometer
Awards Lunar Crater
Evangelista Torricelli
8. Aristotle
Date and place of birth 384 BC Stagira, Greece
Date and place of death 322 BC Chalcis, Greece
Nationality Greek
Area in which he worked Metaphysics, Logic, Physics, Biology
Education Plato’s Academy
Worked in Lyceum, Peripatetic School
Known for Golden mean, Aristotelian logic,
Syllogism, Hexis, Hylomorphism, Theory
of the soul
Awards Lunar Crater
9. Date and place of birth 27 November 1701 Uppsala, Sweden
Date and place of death 25 April 1744 Uppsala, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Area in which he worked Physics, Mathematics, Astrology
Education Uppsala University
Worked in Uppsala University
Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Known for Celsius thermometer scale
Aurora phenomenon
Lapland expedition
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society
Anders Celsius
10. Alan Turing
Date and place of birth 23 June 1912 London, England
Date and place of death 7 June 1954 Wilmslow, England
Nationality British
Area in which he worked Mathematics, cryptanalysis, logic,
computer science, mathematical and
theoretical biology
Education Sherborne School
King’s College, Cambridge
Princeton University, USA
Worked in Government Code and Cypher School
National Physical Laboratory
Victoria University of Manchester
Known for Cryptanalysis of the Enigma
Turing machine
Turing test
LU decomposition
Awards Smith's Prize(1936)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1951)
11. Pierre de Fermat
Date and place of birth 17 August 1601 Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France
Date and place of death 12 January 1665 Castres, France
Nationality French
Area in which he worked Mathematics and Law
Education University of Orléans
Worked in High Court of Toulouse
Known for Number theory
Analytic geometry
Fermat's principle
Fermat prime
Fermat's Last Theorem
Differential Calculus
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