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Wolfgang Pauli was born in Vienna, Austria in 1900 and was a physicist known as one of the creators of quantum mechanics. He particularly become known for the “Pauli Exclusion Principle” which states that no two electrons can be in the same quantum state at the same time.
PRECURSOR:
1831 - Maxwell
1838 - Mach
1853 - Lorentz
1858 [...]

Max Planck was born in 1858 in Kiel, Germany and was the physicist responsible for creating the beginnings of quantum theory. Planck was working on a description of electromagnetic radiation when he discovered that energy is only radiated in discrete bundles, or quanta. A constant derived from the equation he produced is now [...]

Hermann Minkowski was born in Lithuania in 1864 and was a mathematician who also did work in mathematical physics and relativity. “Minkowski Space” is a manifold constructed with three space-like dimensions and one time-like dimension to create the four dimensional spacetime continuum associated with relativity theory. When he taught at a science and [...]

Henri Poincare was born in Nancy, France in 1854 and was a mathematician, physicist and philosopher. He may be best known for posing a theoretical problem in topology called “the Poincare Conjecture” which is a problem in topology about how a sphere can be defined by dealing with the characteristics of a three dimensional manifold. [...]

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born in 1853 in Arnhem, The Netherlands. He was a physicist who collaborated with Pieter Zeeman to describe the Zeeman effect, for which both men were awarded the nobel prize for physics in 1902. The Zeeman effect describes how a magnetic field causes light to be split across spectral [...]

Albert Einstein was born in Wurttemburg, Germany in 1879 and become known as one of the greatest physicists and thinkers.
PRECURSOR:
-0300 - Euclid
Galileo
Newton
1777 - Gauss
Maxwell
Poincare
Mach
1826 - Riemann
CONCURRENT:
Minkowski
Schroedinger
Planck
de Broglie
Bose
Hilbert
1849 - Klein
1853 - Lorentz
1885 - Bohr
1885 - Kaluza
1901 - Heisenberg
1902 - Dirac
1906 - Godel
SUBSEQUENT:
Hawking
SEE ALSO:
Albert Einstein Online - [westegg.com]
Einstein’s Big Idea - [pbs.org]
Einstein - [amnh.org]

Michael Faraday was born in 1791 in South London, England. Faraday studied electromagnetic fields and was also a chemist. He proposed that magnetism is a circular force and used that idea to build the first simple electric motor. He discovered electromagnetic induction and built the first generator and transformer. He discovered [...]