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Born December 13, 1724 • Rostock • Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Died August 10, 1802 (aged 77) • Russia
Subjects Of Study electricity • magnetism
Siméon-Denis Poisson
Siméon-Denis Poisson
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Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
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John H. Van Vleck
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John Canton
British physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
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German physicist and philosopher
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
Kirchhoff, Gustav
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
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Georg Simon Ohm
Georg Ohm
German physicist
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
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Galileo
Galileo
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
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James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
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Mileva Marić-Einstein
mathematician and physicist
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician

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