Biographies

Alphabetical index of names

The following individuals are mentioned in FLAP, either explicitly, or implicitly (through the use of units, devices, equations, etc. that involve their names or are derived from them).

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892)

Airy, George Biddell (1801-1892)

Amontons, Guillaume (1663-1705)

Ampère, André (1775-1836)

Archimedes (c. 287 BC-212 BC)

Argand, Jean Robert (1768-1822)

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

Aston, Francis (1877-1945)

Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856)

Balmer, Johann Jakob (1825-1898)

Becquerel, Henri (1852-1908)

Bednorz, George (1950- )

Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)

Bethe, Hans (1906-)

Biot, Jean Baptiste (1774-1862)

Bohr, Niels (1885-1962)

Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844-1906)

Born, Max (1882-1970)

Bothe, Walther (1891-1957)

Boulton, Matthew (1728-1809)

Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)

Bragg, Lawrence (1890-1971)

Bragg, William (1862-1942)

Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)

Brown, Robert (1773-1858)

Bunsen, Robert (1811-1899)

Cardano, Gerolamo (1501-1576)

Carnot, Nicholas Leonard Sadi (1796-1832)

Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)

Celsius, Anders (1701-1744)

Chadwick, James (1891-1974)

Charles, Jacques Alexandre César (1746-1823)

Chu, Ching-Wu (1941- )

Clapeyron, Emile (1799-1864)

Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel (1822-1888)

Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806)

Crookes, William (1832-1919)

Curie, Marie (1867-1934),

Curie, Pierre (1859-1906)

d'Alembert, Jean le Rond (1717-1783)

Dalton, John (1766-1844)

Davisson, Clinton (1881-1958)

Davey, Humphrey (1778-1829)

de Broglie, Louis (1892-1987)

Debye, Peter (1884-1966)

Democritus (c. 460 BC-c. 380 BC)

Demoivre, Abraham (1667-1754)

Dempster, Arthur (1886-1950)

Descartes René (1596-1650)

Dirac, Paul (1902-1984)

Doppler, Christian (1803-1853)

Edison, Thomas (1847-1931)

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)

Euclid (fl. c. 300 BC-260 BC)

Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)

Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel (1686-1736)

Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)

Fermat, Pierre de (1601-1665)

Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954)

Feynman, Richard Phillips (1918-1988)

Fizeau, Armand (1819-1896)

Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830)

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)

Fraunhofer, Josef von (1787-1826)

Fresnel, Augustin Jean (1788-1827)

Friedrich, W. (1883-1968)

Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798)

Gauss, Friedrich Karl (1777-1855)

Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis (1778-1850)

Geiger, Hans Wilhelm (1882-1945)

Gerlach, Walther (1899-1979)

Germer, Lester (1896-1971)

Goudsmit, Samuel (1902-1978)

Gray, Louis Harold (1905-1965)

Hall, Edwin Herbert (1855-1938)

Halley, Edmund (1656-1742)

Hamilton, William Rowan (1805-1865)

Hawking, Stephen (1942- )

Heisenberg, Werner (1901-1976)

Helmholtz, Hermann von (1821-1894)

Henry, Joseph (1797-1878)

Herschel, William (1738-1822)

Hertz, Heinrich (1857-1894)

Hittorf, Johann (1824-1914)

Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)

Huggins, Sir William (1824-1910)

Hund, Friedrich (1896-1997)

Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695)

Josephson, Brian (1940- )

Joule, James Prescott (1818-1889)

Kelvin, Lord [William Thomson] (1824-1907)

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)

Kirchhoff, Gustav (1824-1887)

Knipping, P (1883-1935)

Kohlrausch, Friedrich (1840-1910)

Laplace, Pierre Simon de (1749-1827)

Laue, Max von (1879-1960)

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794)

Lawrence, Ernest Orlando (1901-1958)

Lawson, John (1923- )

Leclanché, Georges (1839-1882)

Leibniz, Gottfried (1646-1716)

Lenard Philipp (1862-1947)

Lennard-Jones, John (1894-1954)

Lenz, Heinrich (1804-1865)

Leucippus (fl. 500 BC-450 BC)

Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (1811-1877)

Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875-1946)

Lissajous, Jules Antoine (1822-1880)

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)

Lucretius (c. 95 BC-c. 55 BC)

Lyman, Theodore (1874-1954)

Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)

Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)

Magdeberg, Otto von Guericke of (1602-1686)

Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937)

Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879)

Mendeleev, Dmitri (1834-1907)

Michell, John (1724-1793)

Michelson, Albert Abraham (1852-1931)

Millikan, Robert Andrews (1868-1953)

Morley, Edward Williams (1838-1923)

Mosley, Henry (1887-1915)

Muller, Alex (1927- )

Napier, John (1550-1617)

Newcomen, Thomas (1663-1729)

Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)

Oersted, Hans Christian (1777-1851)

Ohm, Georg (1787-1854)

Onnes, Heike Kammerlingh (1853-1926)

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967)

Ostwald, Friedrich (1853-1932)

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

Paschen, Friedrich (1865-1947)

Pauli, Wolfgang (1900-1958)

Penrose, Roger (1931- )

Perrin, Jean (1870-1942)

Piazzi, Giuseppe (1746-1826)

Planck, Max (1858-1947)

Proust, Joseph Louis (1754-1826)

Prout, William (1785-1850)

Pythagoras (c. 580 BC-c. 500 BC)

Raphson, Joseph (c. 1650-c. 1715)

Rayleigh, Lord [John William Strutt] (1842-1919)

Regnault, Henri (1800-1878)

Riemann, Bernhard (1826-1866)

Röntgen, Wilhelm (1845-1923)

Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937)

Rydberg, Johannes Robert (1854-1919)

Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1961)

Schwinger, Julian (1918-1994)

Seaborg, Glenn (1912- )

Siemens, Charles William (1823-1883)

Sievert, Rolf M. (1896-1966)

Snell, Willebrord (1591-1626)

Soddy, Frederick (1877-1966)

Stefan, Josef (1835-1893)

Stern Otto (1888-1969)

Stokes, George Gabriel (1819-1903)

Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)

Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)

Thévenin, Leon (1857-1926)

Thompson, Bejamin [Count Rumford] (1753-1814)

Thomson, George Paget (1892-1975)

Thomson, Joseph John (1856-1940)

Thomson, William [Lord Kelvin] (1824-1907)

Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro (1906-1979)

Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647)

Uhlenbeck, George (1900-1988)

van der Waals, Johannes Diderik (1837-1923)

Volta, Alessandro (1745-1827)

Watt, James (1736-1819)

Weber, Wilhelm (1804-1891)

Wheatstone, Charles (1802-1875)

Whewell, William (1794-1866)

Wilson, Charles (1869-1959)

Young, Thomas (1773-1829)

Zeeman, Pieter (1865-1943)