Physicist computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Physicist. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
Albert Einstein Respected theoretical physicist. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Alessandro Volta Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Andrew Booth Inventor of Booth's multiplication algorithm that led to the invention of drum memory. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer | |
Blaise Pascal Mathematician, writer, child prodigy, and inventor of the Pascaline. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer | |
Carl Sagan Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. Category: Editor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Chester Carlson Inventor of electrophotography. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
David Deutsch British physicist who is known for the Quantum Turing machine. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Emanuel Goldberg Inventor of such inventions as microdots, the kinamo movie camera, and the Contax 35mm camera. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Enrico Fermi Father of the atomic bomb. Category: Father, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Federico Faggin Italian physicist and engineer who helped design the first commercial microprocessor. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer | |
Georg Ohm German physicist and mathematician best known for Ohm's law. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer | |
George Pake Physicist and research executive that help found Xerox. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Giovanni Caselli Inventor of the pantelegraph, the predecessor to the modern fax machine. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Guglielmo Marconi Father of long distance radio transmission. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Heinrich Hertz German physicist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Hugh Herr American biophysicist and designer of specialized prostheses. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Professor, Twitter, and Writer | |
Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist known for Universal gravitation and Calculus. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer | |
Jagadish Bose Indian pioneer who investigated the radio and microwave optics and made a significant contribution to plant science. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Jean Fourier Known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications of heat transfers and vibrations. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer | |
John Bardeen Co-inventor of the transistor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
John Fleming Inventor of the first vacuum tube and diode. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
John Mauchly American physicist who helped develop the ENIAC, EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer | |
John Napier Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and inventor of Napier's bones. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer | |
John Pasta American computer scientist known for co-originating the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer | |
Karl Braun German inventor, physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who helped develop radio and television. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Karl Ganzhorn German physicist who dealt with applied physics and computer development. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Klaus Samelson German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer | |
Larry Smarr Physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, Twitter, and Writer | |
Louis Ridenour American physicist instrumental in U.S. development of radar. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer | |
Neil Tyson American astrophysicist and science communicator and former host of NOVA ScienceNow. Category: African American, Director, Manager, Personality, Physicist, Twitter, and Writer | |
Nicholas Metropolis Greek American physicist and one of the scientists during the Manhattan Project. Category: Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer | |
Norman Margolus Canadian-American computer scientist and physicist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer | |
Peter Grunberg German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Ralph Slutz Physicist and computer pioneer and one of the first to build a computer with a central memory to store and modify data. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Richard Crandall Chief Scientist at NeXT and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. Category: Manager, Physicist, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer | |
Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. Category: Manager, Physicist, Professor, Scientist, and Writer | |
Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer | |
Theodore Maiman Inventor of the first laser. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Vilhelm Bjerknes Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who helped found the modern practice of weather forecasting. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Walter Brattain Inventor that helped invent the transistor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
Wietse Venema Dutch programmer, physicist, and Google software engineer. Category: Engineer, Manager, Personality, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer | |
Wilhelm Rontgen German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
William Coolidge American physicist known for his work with incandescent electric lighting. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer | |
William Eccles British physicist and inventor of the term diode and the flip-flop circuit. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
William Higinbotham American physicist credited with creating one of the first computer games. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
William Shockley Physicist and co-inventor of the transistor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer | |
William Sturgeon Physicist and inventor who was first to make electromagnets and inventor of the first practical English electric motor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |