Famous physicists through history

Question 1 of 10

Born 15 February 1564, an Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution.

Michael FaradayMichael Faraday
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei
Paul DiracPaul Dirac

Question 2 of 10

Born 1 December 1882 this German born Jewish physicist emigrated to Britain in 1933 and was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics.

Ernest RutherfordErnest Rutherford
Max BornMax Born
Niels Henrik David BohrNiels Henrik David Bohr

Question 3 of 10

Born 8 January 1942 this English theoretical physicist is also an author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

Stephen HawkingStephen Hawking
Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman
Robert GravesRobert Graves

Question 4 of 10

Born 22 September 1791 this English scientist established the basis for the concept of the electromagnetic fields.

Niels Henrik David BohrNiels Henrik David Bohr
Michael FaradayMichael Faraday
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell

Question 5 of 10

Born April 23, 1858 this German theoretical physicist originated quantum theory and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

Max PlanckMax Planck
Erwin SchrödingerErwin Schrödinger
Max BornMax Born

Question 6 of 10

Born August 30, 1871 in New Zealand, this British physicist became known as the father of nuclear physics.

Julius Robert OppenheimerJulius Robert Oppenheimer
Leslie GrovesLeslie Groves
Ernest RutherfordErnest Rutherford

Question 7 of 10

Born 12 August 1887 this Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist developed the basis of wave mechanics.

Erwin SchrödingerErwin Schrödinger
Arnold SommerfeldArnold Sommerfeld
Max PlanckMax Planck

Question 8 of 10

Born 14 March 1879 was a German-born theoretical physicist - can you name him?

Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman
Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein
Max BornMax Born

Question 9 of 10

Born 7 November 1867 she was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

Gabriel LippmannGabriel Lippmann
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin
Marie CurieMarie Curie

Question 10 of 10

Born 25 December 1642 this English physicist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.

Michael FaradayMichael Faraday
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton