History

Physics 303
Fall 1997

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) British mathematician and astronomer.
Archimedes Greek mathematician and inventor 3rd c. BC
Bohr, Niels (1885-1962) Danish physicist
Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601) Danish astronomer
Coriolis, Gustave-Gaspard(1792-1843) French engineer and mathematician
Doppler, Christian(1803-1853) Austrian physicist
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) American physicist
Eötvös, Roland, Baron von(1848-1919) Hungarian physicist
Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783) Swiss mathematician and physicist
Foucault, Jean-Bernard-Léon (1819-1868) French physicist
Fourier, (Jean-Baptiste-)Joseph, Baron (1768-1830) French mathematician
Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) German mathematician
Green, George (1793-1841) English mathematician
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865) Irish mathematician and astronomer
Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976) German physicist and philosopher
Hooke, Robert (1635-1703 English physicist
Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob (1804-1851) German mathematician
Joule, James Prescott (1818-1889) English physicist
Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) German physicist
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928) Dutch physicist
Mach, Ernst (1838-1916) Austrian physicist and philosopher


Bernoulli, Jakob (1655-1705) Swiss mathematician.
Galileo
John Harrison
Isaac Newton