Scientists
Short profiles of noteworthy scientists — people whose work was significant enough that a law, unit, particle, constant, or effect now carries their name. Fed the same way as Visuals and Field Notes: built from real posts and articles worth a durable home, each with the original source plus a standalone writeup of what the person actually discovered and why it mattered. See the Catalog for how the underlying science in each entry is classified.
- Archimedes
- Emmy Noether — the Theorem That Explains Why Conservation Laws Exist at All
- Albert Einstein
- Isaac Newton
- Max Planck
- Niels Bohr
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Paul Dirac
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Julian Schwinger
- Enrico Fermi
- Murray Gell-Mann
- John Stewart Bell
- Boris Tsirelson
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Alexander Friedmann
- Edwin Hubble
- Albert Michelson & Edward Morley
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Georges-Louis Le Sage
- Blaise Pascal
- Hendrik Casimir
- Christian Otto Mohr
- David Hilbert
- John Archibald Wheeler
- Ted Jacobson & David Mattingly
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker & Hans Bethe