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Born March 7, 1880 • London • England
Died May 18, 1949 (aged 69) • Nottingham • England
Subjects Of Study X-ray • ionization • measurement
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Barkla, Charles Glover
Charles Glover Barkla
British physicist
H.L. Callendar
British scientist
Sir Charles Vernon Boys
British physicist and inventor
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Arthur Holly Compton
Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist
Giacconi, Riccardo
Riccardo Giacconi
Italian physicist
Espagnat, Bernard d'
Bernard d’Espagnat
French physicist and philosopher
Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Mme du Châtelet, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist; in a private collection
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
German physicist
Albert Of Saxony
German philosopher
Henrik Steffens
German philosopher and physicist
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
Swedish physicist

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