The Most Famous
Physicists from Pakistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Pakistani Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 4 of which were born in Pakistan. This makes Pakistan the birth place of the 27th most number of Physicists behind South Africa and Australia.
Top 4 Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Pakistani Physicists of all time. This list of famous Pakistani Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 - 1995
HPI 71.0686 langsSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who is most famous for his discovery of the Chandrasekhar limit. This limit...Read moreShow less
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who is most famous for his discovery of the Chandrasekhar limit. This limit states that a star's mass cannot exceed 1.4 solar masses before it collapses into a white dwarf.
- #2
Abdus Salam
1926 - 1996
HPI 69.5382 langsAbdus Salam is most famous for being the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.
Overlapping Lives
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
