Physicists

Physicists

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made (particle physics) to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole (cosmology).

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Marconi

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An Italian inventor, known for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor ...

Spanman Hungermann

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Spanman Hungermann was a German physisist. He was born in 1900 in Breslau and moved to Berlin in his early twenties. He invented a lot of machines, e.g. the egg machine and the foot mover.He won many ...

Manfred von Ardenne

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Manfred von Ardenne was a German research and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, ...

Max Abraham

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Max Abraham was a German physicist. Abraham was born in Danzig, Imperial Germany to a family of Jewish merchants. His father was Moritz Abraham and his mother was Selma Moritzsohn. Attending the ...

Karl Ernst von Baer

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Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn, also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer, was an Estonian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a founding father of ...

Ernst Karl Abbe

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Ernst Karl Abbe was a German physicist, optometrist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he laid the foundation of modern optics. Abbe developed numerous ...

Konrad Adenauer

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Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. As Chancellor of Germany from 1949 to 1963, he led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that forged ...