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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947)
Scientific field: Physics
Known for: Planck’s constant, Quantum theory
Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist with many contributions to theoretical physics, but whose fame rests primarily on his role as originator of the quantum theory. This theory revolutionized our understanding of atomic and subatomic processes, just as Albert Einstein’s theory of [...]

Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
Scientific field: Physics
Known for: Atomic bomb development, Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit, Oppenheimer-Phillips process
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and science administrator, noted as director of the Los Alamos laboratory during development of the atomic bomb (1943–45) and as director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1947–66).
In the 1920s the new [...]

Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862)
Scientific field: Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Biot-Savart law
Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist who helped formulate the Biot-Savart law, which concerns magnetic fields, and laid the basis for saccharimetry, a useful technique of analyzing sugar solutions.
Educated at the École Polytechnique, Biot was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Beauvais in 1797, [...]

Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999)
Scientific field: Chemistry
Known for: Transuranium elements
Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American nuclear chemist best known for his work on isolating and identifying elements heavier than uranium. He was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with Edwin Mattison McMillan). Element 106, seaborgium, was named in his honour.
With his coworkers, Seaborg added (1940–55) [...]