With 717 biographies, Physicists are the 21st most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Noblemen, Biologists, and Mathematicians.
Pantheon has 774 people classified as physicists born between 965 and 2000. Of these 774, 148 (19.12%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living physicists include Roger Penrose, Barry Barish, and Peter Higgs. The most famous deceased physicists include Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Marie Curie. As of April 2022, 59 new physicists have been added to Pantheon including Syukuro Manabe, Giorgio Parisi, and Klaus Hasselmann.
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.71
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.66
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.25
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.76
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.31
1930 - Present
HPI: 64.23
1943 - Present
HPI: 63.37
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.26
1643 - 1726
HPI: 98.35
1879 - 1955
HPI: 93.06
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.71
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
1791 - 1867
HPI: 84.47
1845 - 1923
HPI: 83.44
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
1858 - 1947
HPI: 81.76
1635 - 1703
HPI: 81.43
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.34
1777 - 1851
HPI: 81.20
1818 - 1889
HPI: 80.86
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.31
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.26
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.23
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.88
1820 - 1893
HPI: 60.03
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.97
1927 - Present
HPI: 58.84
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.30
1908 - 2003
HPI: 55.39
1958 - 2020
HPI: 53.47
1683 - 1761
HPI: 52.28
1928 - 2011
HPI: 51.87
Most physicists were born in United States (180), Germany (97), and United Kingdom (88). By city, the most common birth places were New York City (29), Paris (19), and Vienna (13).The most common death places of physicists were United States (178), United Kingdom (86), and Germany (85). By city, these were Paris (39), Moscow (32), and London (19).
The earliest biographies classified as physicists in Pantheon are Christoph Scheiner, William Gilbert, and Ibn al-Haytham. The concentration of physicists was largest during the Radio & Film Era, which lasted from 1900 to 1949. Some birth or death locations for earlier physicists are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
Physicists are found within the Science & Technology domain which also includes Biologists, Mathematicians, Astronomers, Chemists, and Physicians.