The Most Famous
Physicists from Ireland
This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 7 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 19th most number of Physicists behind Denmark and China.
Top 7 Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Physicists of all time. This list of famous Irish Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
William Rowan Hamilton
1805 - 1865
HPI 74.7876 langsWilliam Rowan Hamilton is most famous for his work in mathematics. He is credited with inventing quaternions, a four-dimensional number...Read moreShow less
William Rowan Hamilton is most famous for his work in mathematics. He is credited with inventing quaternions, a four-dimensional number system.
- #3
Ernest Walton
1903 - 1995
HPI 68.1778 langsErnest Walton is most famous for splitting the atom and being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951.
Overlapping Lives
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 7 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
