Aage Niels Bohr

A Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Mottelson and James Rainwater

Abdus Salam

Pakistani theoretical physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

An Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age.

Adrien Marie Legendre

IQ 175

A French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.

Al-Kindi

A Muslim philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician who is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".

Alan Guth

An American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

Albert Einstein

IQ 160

Synonym for genius and one of humanity greatest scientific minds

Alessandro Volta

IQ 175

An Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery.

Alfred M. Mayer

IQ 150

An American physicist.

Ibn al-Haytham

IQ 175

A Muslim Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age who is referred to as the father of mod

André-Marie Ampère

IQ 180

A French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism.

Archimedes

IQ 190

A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Arnold Sommerfeld

IQ 175

A German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics

Arthur Compton

An American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

IQ 160

A French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

IQ 180

A French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory

Avicenna

IQ 180

A Medieval Persian polymath, physician and philosopher

Blaise Pascal

IQ 185

Pascal's law

Carl Friedrich Gauss

IQ 190

A German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science.

Carl David Anderson

An American physicist best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932.

C. V. Raman

An Indian physicist known mainly for his work in the field of light scattering.

Charles Glover Barkla

A British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

IQ 170

Coulomb's law

Charles H. Townes

IQ 165

An American physicist who worked on the theory and application of the maser and laser devices.

Yang Chen-Ning

A Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge t

Christian Doppler

IQ 170

An Austrian mathematician and physicist.

Daniel Bernoulli

A Swiss mathematician and physicist for pioneering work in probability and statistics

David Hilbert

A German mathematician and one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Democritus

IQ 185

An Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the univ

Denis Papin

IQ 180

a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forer

Ecphantus the Pythagorean

A shadowy Greek pre-Socratic philosopher who maintained that the Cosmos is made of atoms. His existence is disputed to t

Edmond Halley

IQ 175

An English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist whos observations helped to determine t

Edward Witten

An American mathematical and theoretical physicist who was awarded a Fields Medal for the proof of the positive energy t

Elon Musk

IQ 155

One in a lifetime entrepreneur, business giant, scientist & engineer. The man behind Tesla, Space-X and more.

Emmy Noether

A genius German mathematician who discovered Noether's theorem. Albert Einstein described her as the most important woma

Enrico Fermi

IQ 190

An Italian physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He is considered as the a

Ernest Lawrence

A pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclot

Ernest Rutherford

A genius New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. He is considered to be the greates

Ernest Walton

An Anglo-Irish physicist and Nobel laureate who became the first person in history to split the atom.

Ernst Mach

IQ 175

An Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the study of shock waves. He was a

Erwin Schrödinger

IQ 190

A Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist best known for his "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment.

Eudoxus of Cnidus

IQ 170

An ancient Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar, and student of Archytas and Plato. Some fragments of his work are p

Frederick Rossini

IQ 180

An American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

IQ 170

A German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile who coined the term "scrapbooks".

George Green

IQ 180

British mathematical physicist who was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism.

Georges Lemaître

A Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Georges-Louis Le Sage

IQ 150

A Genevan physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation

Gilbert N. Lewis

IQ 195

Covalent bondLewis dot structuresValence bond theoryElectronic theory of acids and basesChemical thermodynamicsFugacityH

Gustav Fechner

IQ 165

A German experimental psychologist, philosopher, and physicist who was an early pioneer in experimental psychology and f

Gustav Kirchhoff

IQ 175

A German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emissi

Hans Christian Ørsted

IQ 180

A Danish physicist and chemist discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields

Harold Urey

An American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the d

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

IQ 175

A Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate who liquefied helium for the first time in 1908.

Heinrich Hertz

IQ 180

A German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves

Hendrik Lorentz

IQ 180

A Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman

Henry Moseley

An English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics lead to the discovery of the X-Ray spectrum.

Henry Cavendish

An English natural philosopher who discovered nitrogen

Hermann von Helmholtz

IQ 195

A German physicist and physician known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perceptio

Hero of Alexandria

IQ 185

A Greco-Egyptian mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria

Ilya Prigogine

IQ 170

A physical chemist and Nobel laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility

Irène Joliot-Curie

A French chemist, physicist, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of

Isaac Newton

IQ 190

An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author

Jacob Barnett

IQ 170

A gifted American physics student and former child prodigy.

James Hutton

A Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician.

James Clerk Maxwell

IQ 185

AScottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiatio

James Prescott Joule

IQ 180

An English physicist, mathematician and brewer whose work led to the discovery of the first law of thermodynamics.

Léon Foucault

IQ 160

A French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the E

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

IQ 185

A French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist

John Cockcroft

A British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus

John Dalton

Фn English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist best known for his research into colour blindness.

John Michell

English scientist, geologist, and astronomer who was the first person known to have proposed the existence of black hole

John Philoponus

Philosopher, Theologist, Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Writer

John Napier

IQ 170

A Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer best known as the discoverer of logarithms

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

IQ 180

A British scientist who received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations of the densities of the most imp

John Bardeen

IQ 180

An American engineer and physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.

John von Neumann

IQ 190

Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.

Joseph John Thomson

IQ 180

A British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

IQ 175

A French chemist and physicist who discovered that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.

Henri Poincaré

IQ 190

French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science who made fundamental contributions to pure and app

Julius von Mayer

IQ 180

A German physician, chemist and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics