Search our database of handpicked sites
Looking for a great physics site? We've tracked down the very best and checked them for accuracy. Just pick a topic, tell us your age and knowledge level and we'll do the rest.
You searched for “biography”
We found 68 results in our database of sites
Treasure Trove of scientific Biography
A very detailed list, with biographies, of almost any physicist anyone can think of!
Roger Penrose biography
A biography of the mathematician with lots of links through to related topics.
Quick biography of Benjamin Franklin
A good biography with some interesting pictures.
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1901-1984)
Brief biography from Eric Weisstein's World of Biography with links to topics such as antiparticles and the Schrodinger equation.
The Babbage Pages: Biography
An interesting biography, written with a human interest slant, of Charles Babbage who played a key role in the invention of computers.
Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities
Brief biographies of 41 scientists connected with the study of electromagnetism. This site also contains links to a brief history of Optics and Electronics
The Manhattan Project
A set of sources for information on the Manhatten Project. Biographies of scientists, photographs of bomb blasts and victims, and audio clips.
Atomic Archive
Very comprehensive and fascinating site covering the history of the invention of the atomic bomb and its consequences with biographies, videos and animations of nuclear physics.
The Oppenheimer Affair
Information on nuclear weapons and war. Biographies of scientists, photographs of bomb blasts and victims, and audio clips. Specifically the Oppenheimer Affair is considered on this link
A Brief History of Cosmology
Outline description of the History of Cosmology. Includes biographies of key figures.




