PHYSICS FACES
| Ampere | Andre Marie Ampere made fundamental contributions to electricity and magnetism. |
| Anderson | Carl D. Anderson discovered the positron and the muon in 1932. |
| Angstrom | Anders Angstrom. Spectroscopy. |
| Balmer | Johann Balmer discovered the formula for the hydrogen spectrum. |
| Becquerel | Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896. |
| Bessel | Friedrich Bessel. Bessel functions. |
| Biot | Jean-Baptiste Biot. Co-discoverer of the Biot-Savart Law. |
| Bohr | Niels Bohr made fundamental contributions to quantum theory. |
| Boltzmann | Ludwig Boltzmann made fundamental contributions to statistical mechanics. |
| Born | Max Born made fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics. |
| Bose | Satyendranath Bose. Bose-Einstein statistics. Bosons! |
| Boyle | Robert Boyle. Boyle's Law. |
| Brewster | David Brewster. Brewster's angle. |
| Bunsen | Robert Bunsen. The Bunsen burner. |
| Carnot | Sadi Carnot: a pioneer in thermodynamics. |
| Cerenkov | Pavel Cerenkov discovered what is now called "Cerenkov radiation". |
| Chadwick | James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932. |
| Chladni | Ernst Chladni. Chladni plates. |
| Christoffel | Elwin Christoffel. Christoffel symbols. |
| Clebsch/Gordan | Rudolf Clebsch and Paul Gordan. Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. |
| Compton | Arthur Compton explained x-ray scattering from electrons in 1923. |
| Coriolis | Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis studied forces that exist in rotating reference frames. |
| Coulomb | Charles de Coulomb. Coulomb's Law! |
| Crookes | William Crookes. Crookes' tubes. |
| Curie | Marie and Pierre Curie. The ultimate scientific power couple. |
| Davisson/Germer | Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer verified de Broglie's wave theory of matter in 1927. |
| d'Alembert | Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. The d'Alembertian operator. |
| de Broglie | Louis de Broglie first proposed the wave nature of matter. |
| Descarte | Rene Descarte. Cartesian coordinates. |
| Dirac | Paul Dirac. A genius who made fundamental contributions to quantum theory. |
| Doppler | Christian Doppler. The Doppler effect. |
| Edison | Thomas Edison invented the electric light, the phonograph, and moving pictures. |
| Ehrenfest | Paul Ehrenfest. Einstein's important friend. |
| Einstein | Albert Einstein. A physics icon. |
| Euler | Leonard Euler, a mathematical pioneer. |
| Faraday | Michael Faraday was the pioneer of electromagnetic theory who discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction. |
| Fermi | Enrico Fermi made fundamental contributions to nuclear physics. |
| FitzGerald | George FitzGerald. Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction. |
| Fizeau | Armande Fizeau. Optics. |
| Fourier | Joseph Fourier. Fourier series. Fourier transform. |
| Fraunhofer | Joseph Fraunhofer. Spectroscopy. |
| Fresnel | Augustin Fresnel. Optics. |
| Friedmann | Aleksandr Friedmann discovered the homogeneous isotropic model of the universe still used in cosomology today. |
| Galileo | Galileo took giant first steps in kinematics and astronomy. |
| Galvani | Luigi Galvani. Electricity and frogs. |
| Gauss | Carl Gauss. Gauss' Law. The Gaussian probability function. |
| Gibbs | Josiah Willard Gibbs. King of statistical mechanics. |
| Goddard | Robert Goddard. Rocket pioneer. |
| Hamilton | William Rowan Hamilton is famous for his work in classical mechanics. |
| Heisenberg | Werner Heisenberg was one of the creators of quantum theory. |
| Helmholtz | Herman von Helmholtz. Helmholtz coils. |
| Henry | Joseph Henry. Electromagnetism. |
| Hermite | Charles Hermite. Hermitian operators. Hermitian adjoint. Hermite polynomials. |
| Hertz | Heinrich Hertz discovered invisible electromagnetic radiation in 1887. |
| Hilbert | David Hilbert. Hilbert space. |
| Huygens | Christiaan Huygens. Scientific pioneer. |
| Jacobi | Carl Jacobi. The Jacobian. |
| Joule | James Joule. Contributed to the understanding of energy and thermodynamics. |
| Kelvin | Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) made fundamental contributions to thermodynamics. |
| Killing | Wilhelm Killing. The Killing vector. |
| Kirchhoff | Gustav Kirchhoff. Spectroscopy pioneer. The laws of circuit analysis. |
| Kronecker | Leopold Kronecker. The Kronecker delta. |
| Lagrange | Joseph-Louis Lagrange's mathematical work is found throughout physics. |
| Laguerre | Edmond Laguerre. Laguerre polynomials. |
| Laplace | Pierre-Simon Laplace. Laplace's equation. |
| Larmor | Joseph Larmor. Larmor precession. |
| Legendre | Adrien-Marie Legendre. Legendre polynomials. |
| Levi-Civita | Tullio Levi-Civita. The Levi-Civita permutation symbol. |
| L'Hopital | Guillaume De l'Hopital. He rules. |
| Lorentz | Hedrick Lorentz is known for his important work in electromagnetic theory. |
| Lyman | Theodore Lyman. Spectroscopy. |
| Mach | Ernst Mach. Influential physicist/philosopher. |
| Maxwell | James Clerk Maxwell. Electromagnetic theory. |
| Meitner | Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission. |
| Michelson | Albert Michelson's famous experiment showed the invariance of light speed. |
| Millikan | Robert Millikan measured the charge of an electron. |
| Minkowski | Hermann Minkowski proposed that spacetime is four-dimensional. |
| Newton | Isaac Newton. Mister classical physics! |
| Oberth | Hermann Oberth. Rocket pioneer. |
| Ohm | Georg Ohm. Ohm's law. |
| Orsted | Hans Christian Orsted. Magnetism. |
| Pascal | Blaise Pascal. |
| Paschen | Louis Paschen. Spectroscopy. |
| Pauli | Wolfgang Pauli proposed the existence of the neutrino and the famous exclusion principle. |
| Planck | Max Planck began quantum theory with the quantization of light. |
| Poisson | Simeon Poisson. Poisson's equation. |
| Ricci | Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. The Ricci tensor. |
| Riemann | Georg Riemann worked out the mathematics of non-Euclidean geometry. |
| Roentgen | Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895. |
| Rowland | Henry Rowland. Fine diffraction gratings. |
| Rumford | Count Rumford (Benjamin Thomson). The mechanical equivalent of heat. |
| Rutherford | Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus. |
| Rydberg | Johannes Rydberg discovered the "Balmer formula" independently of Balmer. |
| Schroedinger | Erwin Schroedinger invented the wavefunction formulation of quantum mechanics. |
| Schwarzschild | Karl Schwarzschild first described the gravitational field of non-rotating black holes. |
| Snell | Willebrord Snell discovered the law of refraction. |
| Stefan | Joseph Stefan. The Stefan-Boltzmann law. |
| Stokes | George Stokes. Stokes' theorem. |
| Taylor | Brook Taylor of Taylor series fame. |
| Tesla | Nikola Tesla, the magnificent electrical inventor. |
| Thomson | Joseph J. Thomson discovered the electron. |
| Tsiolkovsky | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Rocket pioneer. |
| Uhlenbeck | George Uhlenbeck proposed the existence of electron spin. |
| van der Waals | Johannes van der Waals. Van der Waals forces. |
| Venturi | Giovanni Venturi. The Venturi Effect. |
| Volta | Alessandro Volta. Volts! |
| Von Braun | Wernher Von Braun. Rocket pioneer. |
| Watt | James Watt. The steam engine. |
| Weber | Wilhelm Weber. Electromagnetism. |
| Weyl | Hermann weyl. The man even Dirac couldn't understand. |
| Wheatstone | Charles Wheatstone. The Wheatstone bridge. |
| Yukawa | Hideki Yukawa predicted the existence of the pion. |
| Zeeman | Pieter Zeeman discovered the splitting of spectral lines caused by magnetism. |