Lawrence Bragg
1890 - 1971
HPI 82.0787 languages
Lawrence Bragg is most famous for his research with his father, William Bragg, that led to the discovery of X-rays.
The Most Famous
Physicists from Australia
4 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Australians Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 863 Physicists, 4 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 26th most number of Physicists behind Israel and South Africa.
Top 4 Australian Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Australian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
#1 #2 
Alexander Prokhorov
1916 - 2002
HPI 70.8076 languagesAlexandr Prokhorov is most famous for being the owner of the Brooklyn Nets.
#3 
Mark Oliphant
1901 - 2000
HPI 58.0228 languages27th Governor of South Australia
#4 
Helen Quinn
b. 1943
HPI 55.9423 languagesAustralian physicist
Overlapping Lives
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
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