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Physics

Branches of physics  acoustics, aerodynamics, aerostatics, applied physics, astrophysics, atomic physics, biophysics, condensed-matter physics or solid-state physics, cosmology, cryogenics or low-temperature physics, dynamics, electromagnetism, electronics, electrostatics, geophysics, harmonics, high-energy physics or particle physics, kinetics, macrophysics, magnetics or magnetism, magnetostatics, mechanics, mesoscopics, microphysics, nuclear physics, nucleonics, optics, photometry, pneumatics, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, rheology, solar physics, sonics, spectroscopy, statics, statistical mechanics, superaerodynamics, theoretical physics, thermodynamics, thermometry, thermostatics, ultrasonics

Physics terms  acceleration, alternating current, ampere, amplifier, angstrom, anion, antimatter, atom, baryon, becquerel, Boyle’s law, Brownian motion, cacion, calorie, capacitance, cathode ray, centre of gravity, centrifugal force, centripetal force, charge, Charles’ law, conductor, convection, cosmic ray, coulomb, current, cyclotron, decibel, density, diffraction, diffusion, diode, direct current, Doppler effect, earth, electricity, electromotive force, electron, energy, farad, field, fission, fluorescence, force, frequency, friction, fuse, fusion, gamma ray, generator, gravity, half-life, hertz, hyperon, impetus, inductance, inertia, infrared, joule, kelvin, kinetic energy, laser, lens, lepton, luminescence, mass, matter, meson, microwave, moment, momentum, muon, neutrino, neutron, newton, nucleon, nucleus, ohm, Ohm’s law, particle, pascal, Planck constant or Planck’s constant, potential difference, potential energy, proton, quantum, radiation, radioactivity, radio wave, red shift, reflection, refraction, relativity, resistance, rutherford, semiconductor, simple harmonic motion, spectrum, static electricity, subatomic particle, superconductivity, superfluidity, surface tension, tau particle, tension, terminal velocity, thermostat, transformer, transistor, ultraviolet, vacuum, velocity, viscosity, volt, watt, wave, wavelength, x-ray

Physicists  Ernst Abbe (German), Jean Le Rond Alembert (French), Hannes Olaf Gösta Alfvén (Swedish), Luis Walter Alvarez (U.S.), André Marie Ampère (French), Carl David Anderson (U.S.), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (English), Philip Warren Anderson (U.S.), Anders Jonas Ångström (Swedish), Edward Appleton (English), Archimedes (Greek), Svante August Arrhenius (Swedish), Francis William Aston (English), Pierre Auger (French), Amedeo Avogadro (Italian), Jacques Babinet (French), John Bardeen (U.S.), Heinrich Georg Barkhausen (German), Charles Glover Barkla (English), Nikolai Basov (Russian), Antoine Henri Becquerel (French), Georg von Békésy (U.S.), Daniel Bernoulli (Swiss), Hans Albrecht Bethe (U.S.), Gerd Binnig (German), Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (English), Felix Bloch (U.S.), Aage Niels Bohr (Danish), Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (Danish), Ludwig Boltzmann (Austrian), Max Born (British), Jagadis Chandra Bose (Indian), Satyendra Nath Bose (Indian), Walter Bothe (German), Robert Boyle (Irish), Walter Houser Brattain (U.S.), Karl Ferdinand Braun (German), Auguste Bravais (French), David Brewster (Scottish), Percy Bridgman (U.S.), Maurice Broglie (French), Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot (French), Henry Cavendish (English), James Chadwick (English), Owen Chamberlain (U.S.), Jacques Charles (French), Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Soviet), Frederick Alexander Lindemann Cherwell (English), Rudolf Clausius (German), John Douglas Cockcroft (English), Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.), Leon Cooper (U.S.), Charles Augustin de Coulomb (French), James Watson Cronin (U.S.), William Crookes (English), Marie Curie (French), Pierre Curie (French), John Dalton (English), Clinton Joseph Davisson (U.S.), Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye (Dutch), James Dewar (Scottish), Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (British), C.J. Doppler (Austrian), Arthur Stanley Eddington (English), Albert Einstein (German-U.S.), Roland von Eötvös (Hungarian), Charles Fabry (French), Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (German), Michael Faraday (British), Gustav Fechner (German), Enrico Fermi (Italian), Richard Feynman (U.S.), Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (French), William Henry Fox Talbot (English), James Franck (U.S.), Joseph von Fraunhofer (German), Augustin Fresnel (French), Otto Frisch (Austrian-British), Klaus Fuchs (German-British), Galileo (Galilei) (Italian), William Gilbert (English), Donald Arthur Glaser (U.S.), Robert Hutchings Goddard (U.S.), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (French), Hans Geiger (German), Murray Gell-Man (U.S.), Josiah Willard Gibbs (U.S.), Pierre Gassendi (French), Thomas Graham (English), Otto von Guericke (German), Otto Hahn (German), Stephen William Hawking (English), Oliver Heaviside (English), Werner Karl Heisenburg (German), Walter Heitler (German), Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (German), Joseph Henry (U.S.), Gustav Hertz (German), Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (German), Victor Francis Hess (U.S.), Robert Hooke (English), Christiaan Huygens (Dutch), Vladimir Nikolaievich Ipatieff (U.S.), James Hopwood Jeans (English), Brian David Josephson (English), James Prescott Joule (English), Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes (Dutch), Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (Russian), William Thomson Kelvin (English), John Kerr (Scottish), Gustav Kirchhoff (German), Willis Eugene Lamb (U.S.), Lev Davidovich Landau (Soviet), Samuel Pierpont Langley (U.S.), Pierre Simon Laplace (French), Max Theodor Felix von Laue (German), Ernest Orlando Lawrence (U.S.), Tsung-Dao Lee (U.S.), Frederick Lindemann (German-British), Gabriel Lippman (French), Oliver Lodge (English), Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Dutch), Edwin McMillan (U.S.), Guglielmo Marconi (Italian), Ernst Mach (Austrian), James Clerk Maxwell (Scottish), Julius Robert von Mayer (German), Lise Meitner (Austrian), Albert Michelson (U.S.), Robert Milikin (U.S.), Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Moseley (English), Robert Sanderson Mullikin (U.S.), Louis Néel (French), Isaac Newton (English), Georg Simon Ohm (German), Mark Laurence Elwin Oliphant (Australian-British), J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer (U.S.), Blaise Pascal (French), Wolfgang Pauli (U.S.), Roger Penrose (English), Jean Baptiste Perrin (French), Auguste Piccard (Swiss), Max (Karl Ernst Ludwig) Planck (German), Jules Henri Poincaré (French), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (Russian), Celic Powell (English), Ludwig Prandtl (German), Edward Mill Purcell (U.S.), Isidor Isaac Rabi (U.S.), John William Strutt Rayleigh (English), Owen Willans Richardson (English), Burton Richter (U.S.), Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen (German), Ernest Rutherford (British), Andrei Sakharov (Soviet), Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian), Glenn Seaborg (U.S.), Emilio Sègre (U.S.), William Bradfield Shockley (U.S.), Kai Siegbahn (Swedish), C.P. Snow (English), Johannes Stark (German), Joseph Wilson Swan (English), Leo Szilard (U.S.), Edward Teller (U.S.), Benjamin Thomson (Anglo-American), George Paget Thomson (English), Joseph John Thomson (English), Samuel Chao Chung Ting (U.S.), Evangelista Torricelli (Italian), Charles Hard Townes (U.S.), John Tyndall (Irish), James Van Allen (U.S.), R.J. Van de Graaff (U.S.), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Dutch), Alessandro Volta (Italian), Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (Irish), Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (Scottish), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (German), Steven Weinberg (U.S.), John Archibald Wheeler (U.S.), Wilhelm Wien (German), Eugene Paul Wigner (U.S.), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Scottish), Chen Ning Yang (U.S.), Thomas Young (English), Hideki Yukawa (Japanese), Fritz Zwicky (Swiss), Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (U.S.)

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