Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Francis Robbins Upton: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born 1852 • Peabody • Massachusetts
Died March 10, 1921 (aged 69) • Orange • New Jersey
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician
default image
John Hopkinson
British physicist
default image
Silvanus Phillips Thompson
British physicist and historian
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
default image
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
Edwin H. Land
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
default image
Stanislaw Ulam
American scientist
default image
William Webster Hansen
American physicist
default image
John Vincent Atanasoff
American physicist

Related Quizzes

Equations written on blackboard
Numbers and Mathematics
Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
Physics and Natural Law
Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science