Erwin Schrödinger
1887 - 1961
HPI 84.23137 languages
Erwin Schrödinger was a physicist who formulated the Schrödinger equation, which is used to describe the behavior of quantum particles.
The Most Famous
Physicists from Austria
21 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrians Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 863 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 Austrian Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Austrian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Austrian 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 Austrian Physicists.
#1 #2 
Lise Meitner
1878 - 1968
HPI 80.9284 languagesLise 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 
Wolfgang Pauli
1900 - 1958
HPI 78.1293 languagesWolfgang Pauli is most famous for his exclusion principle, which states that no two electrons in an atom can occupy the same quantum state.
#4 
Ludwig Boltzmann
1844 - 1906
HPI 77.5777 languagesLudwig 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 
Christian Doppler
1803 - 1853
HPI 77.2775 languagesChristian 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 
Victor Francis Hess
1883 - 1964
HPI 76.9780 languagesVictor Francis Hess is most famous for his discovery of cosmic rays.
#7 
Victor Weisskopf
1908 - 2002
HPI 70.5833 languagesAustrian American theoretical physicist (1908–2002)
#8 
Anton Zeilinger
b. 1945
HPI 69.7652 languagesAustrian quantum physicist
#9 
Walter Kohn
1923 - 2016
HPI 67.7156 languagesAmerican physicist (1923–2016)
#10 
Otto Robert Frisch
1904 - 1979
HPI 67.2543 languagesAustrian-born British nuclear physicist
People by Birth Decade
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Overlapping Lives
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 21 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
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