The Most Famous

Physicists from Austria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Austrians Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 21 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 8th most number of Physicists behind Italy and Netherlands.

Top 10 Physicists

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Austrians Physicists of all time. This list of famous Austrians Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Austrians Physicists.

  1. #1
    Photo of Erwin Schrödinger

    Erwin Schrödinger

    1887 - 1961

    HPI 84.23137 langs

    Erwin Schrödinger was a physicist who formulated the Schrödinger equation, which is used to describe the behavior of quantum particles.

  2. #2
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    Lise Meitner

    1878 - 1968

    HPI 80.9284 langs
    Lise Meitner is most famous for her work in nuclear physics. She was the first person to realize that Otto Hahn's experiments with uranium...Read moreShow less

    Lise Meitner is most famous for her work in nuclear physics. She was the first person to realize that Otto Hahn's experiments with uranium were producing nuclear fission.

  3. #3
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    Wolfgang Pauli

    1900 - 1958

    HPI 78.1293 langs

    Wolfgang Pauli is most famous for his exclusion principle, which states that no two electrons in an atom can occupy the same quantum state.

  4. #4
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    Ludwig Boltzmann

    1844 - 1906

    HPI 77.5777 langs
    Ludwig Boltzmann is most famous for his kinetic theory of gases, which states that the kinetic energy of a gas is proportional to the number...Read moreShow less

    Ludwig Boltzmann is most famous for his kinetic theory of gases, which states that the kinetic energy of a gas is proportional to the number of molecules in the gas.

  5. #5
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    Christian Doppler

    1803 - 1853

    HPI 77.2775 langs
    Christian Doppler is most famous for his discovery of the Doppler effect. The Doppler effect is the change in frequency and wavelength of a...Read moreShow less

    Christian Doppler is most famous for his discovery of the Doppler effect. The Doppler effect is the change in frequency and wavelength of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave.

  6. #6
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    Victor Francis Hess

    1883 - 1964

    HPI 76.9780 langs

    Victor Francis Hess is most famous for his discovery of cosmic rays.

People by Birth Decade

Browse notable Austrians Physicists grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.

Overlapping Lives

Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 18 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.

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