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Born October 24, 1804 • Wittenberg • Germany
Died June 23, 1891 (aged 86) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1859)
Subjects Of Study electromagnetism
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Wolfgang Paul
German physicist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry
American physicist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian scientist
Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Abdus Salam
Pakistani physicist
Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.
Sir Nevill F. Mott
British physicist
British chemist and physicist James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British scientist
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist
John Canton
British physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher

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