Famous Scientists
greatly contributed to "electro" science:
electricity, electromagnetism, electrical technology, electronics, electrical telegraphy, radio, electrochemistry, electromedicine, etc.

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Scientists born before 1751 (index page with portraits and summaries)
William Gilbert
1544-1603
Niccolo Cabeo
1586-1650
Athanasius Kircher
1602-1680
Otto van Guericke
1602-1686
Stephen Gray
1666-1736
Francis Hauksbee the Elder
1666-1713
Jean Theophile Desaguliers
1683-1744
Francis Hauksbee the Younger
1687-1763
Pieter van Musschenbroek
1692-1761
Charles-François de Du Fay
1698-1739
Ewald Jurgens von Kleist
1700-1748
Jean-Antoine Nollet
1700-1770
Johann Winkler
1703-1770
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
Georg Mathias Bose
1710-1761
Sir William Watson
1715-1787
Franz Maria Ulrich Aepinus
1724-1802
Jean de Luc
1727-1817
Henry Cavendish
1731-1810
Jesse Ramsden
1735-1800
Charles A. de Coulomb
1736-1806
Luigi Galvani
1737-1798
Horace Bénédict de Saussure
1740-1799
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1742-1799
John Cuthbertson
1743-1821
Alessandro G.A.A. Volta
1745-1827
William Cruickshank
1745-1800
Martinus Van Marum
1750-1837
George Adams, Jr.
1750-1795

 
Scientists born 1751-1800 (index page with portraits and summaries)
William Nicholson
1753-1815
Samuel Thomas Soemmering
1755-1830
Giovanni Aldini
1762-1834
Johann G. Friedrich Bohnenberger
1765-1831
William Hyde Wollaston
1766-1828
Thomas Johann Seebeck
1770-1831
André-Marie Ampère
1775-1836
Johann Wilhelm Ritter
1776-1810
Peter Barlow
1776-1862
Hans Christian Ørsted
1777-1851
Sir Humphry Davy
1778-1829
Jons Jacob Berzelius
1779-1848
Johann S.C. Schweigger
1779-1857
Robert Hare
1781-1858
William Sturgeon
1783-1850
Leopoldo Nobili
1784-1835
Dominique François Jean Arago
1786-1853
Antoine César Becquerel
1788-1878
Georg Simon Ohm
1789-1854
John Frederic Daniell
1790-1845
Claude-Servais-Mathias Pouillet
1790-1868
Michael Faraday
1791-1867
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1791-1872
Johann Christian Poggendorff
1796-1877
Joseph Henry
1797-1878
Francesco Zantedeschi
1797-1873
Nicholas Joseph Callan
1799-1864
Joseph Saxton
1799-1873

 
Scientists born 1801-1850 (index page with portraits and summaries)
Carl August von Steinheil
1801-1870
Auguste-Arthur de La Rive
1801-1873
Moritz Hermann Jacobi
1801-1874
Thomas Davenport
1802-1851
Charles Wheatstone
1802-1875
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
1803-1877
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
1804-1891
Louis-François-Clement Bréguet
1804-1883
Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz
1804-1865
William Fothergill Cooke
1806-1879
Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne
1806-1875
Antoine Masson
1806-1860
Antoine-Hippolyte Pixii
1808-1835
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci
1808-1889
Alexander Bain
1811-1877
Frederick Collier Bakewell
18??-18??
Sir William Robert Grove
1811-1896
Robert W. E. von Bunsen
1811-1899
Carlo Matteucci
1811-1868
Charles Grafton Page
1812-1868
Daniel Davis Jr.
1813-1887
Heinrich Geissler
1814-1879
Golding Bird
1814-1854
Giovanni Caselli
1815-1891
Ernst Werner von Siemens
1816-1892
Emil Du Bois-Reymond
1818-1896
James Prescott Joule
1818-1889
Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
1818-1884
Hermann L. von Helmholtz
1821-1894
Josiah Latimer Clark
1822-1898
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
1824-1887
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
1824-1914
Zénobe Theophile Gramme
1826-1901
Joseph Swan
1828-1914
Willoughby Smith
1828-1891
David Edward Hughes
1831-1900
Gaston Plante
1834-1889
Johann Philipp Reis
1834-1874
Elisha Gray
1835-1901
August Toepler
1836-1912
Isaak Adams, Jr.
1836-1911
William Grylls Adams
1836-1915
Julius Bernstein
1839-1917
Georges Leclanché
1839-1882
Carl Gassner
18??-1???
Ludwig Mond
1839-1909
Friedrich W.G. Kohlrausch
1840-1910
Antonio Pacinotti
1841-1912
Marcel Deprez
1843-1918
Eugène Édouard Désiré Branly
1844-1940
Tivadar Puskás
1844-1893
Gabriel Lippmann
1845-1921
Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot
1845-1903
Galileo Ferraris
1847-1897
Edwin James Houston
1847-1914
Henry Augustus Rowland
1848-1901
John Ambrose Fleming
1849-1945
Charles Francis Brush
1849-1929
John Hopkinson
1849-1898
Edward Weston
1850-1936
Karl Ferdinand Braun
1850-1918
Lucien Gaulard
1850-1888
Augusto Righi
1850-1920
Oliver W. Heaviside
1850-1925

 
Scientists born 1851-1900 (index page with portraits and summaries)
Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval
1851-1940
Emile Berliner
1851-1929
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
1851-1940
Francis R. Upton
1852-1921
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald
1853-1932
Temistocle Calzecchi Onesti
1853-1922
Elihu Thomson
1853-1937
Károly Zipernowsky
1853-1942
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1853-1926
Miksa Déri
1854-1938
Edwin Herbert Hall
1855-1938
William W. Jacques
1855-1932
Augustus Desiré Waller
1856-1922
Nikola Tesla
1856-1943
Leo Grätz
1856-1941
Edward Goodrich Acheson
1856-1931
James J. Wood
1856-1928
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
1857-1894
William Stanley, Jr.
1858-1916
William Joseph Hammer
1858-1934
Michael Idvorsky Pupin
1858-1935
Charles Ezra Scribner
1858-1926
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
1859-1906
Svante August Arrhenius
1859–1927
William Le Roy Emmet
1859-1941
Willem Einthoven
1860-1927
John William Lieb
1860-1929
Ottó Titusz Bláthy
1860-1939
Peter Cooper Hewitt
1861-1921
John Joseph Carty
1861-1932
Arthur Edwin Kennelly
1861-1939
Julius Tafel
1862-1918
Paul-L.-T. Héroult
1863-1914
Charles Martin Hall
1863-1914
André-Eugène Blondel
1863-1938
Cummings Colineer Chesney
1863-1947
William Bancroft Potter
1863-1934
Hermann Walther Nernst
1864-1941
Benjamin Garver Lamme
1864-1924
Max Julius Louis Le Blanc
1865-1943
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1865-1923
Herbert Henry Dow
1866-1930
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
1866-1932
Søren Peter L. Sørensen
1868-1939
Fritz Haber
1868-1934
Robert Andrews Millikan
1868-1953
Willis Rodney Whitney
1868-1958
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié
1868-1932
Kálmán Kandó
1869-1931
Valdemar Poulsen
1869-1942
Frederick George Donnan
1870-1956
George Washington Pierce
1872-1956
William du Bois Duddell
1872-1917
Friedrich Dolezalek
1873-1920
Lee de Forest
1873-1961
Hans Berger
1873-1941
William David Coolidge
1873-1975
Thomas Martin Lowry
1874-1936
Frederick Gardner Cottrell
1877-1948
Ernst F.W. Alexanderson
1878-1975
Robert von Lieben
1878-1913
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
1879-1947
Irving Langmuir
1881-1957
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
1881-1963
Heinrich Georg Barkhausen
1881-1956
Alexander Meissner
1883-1958
Peter Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
1884-1966
Duncan A. MacInnes
1885-1965
Max Volmer
1885-1965
Walter Schottky
1886-1976
William Bennett Kouwenhoven
1886-1975
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley
1888-1970
John Logie Baird
1888-1946
Harry Nyquist
1889-1976
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
1889-1982
Jaroslav Heyrovský
1890-1967
Edwin Howard Armstrong
1890-1954
David Sarnoff
1891-1971
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
1892-1973
Izaak Maurits Kolthoff
1894-1993
Masuzo Shikata
1895-1964
Alexander N. Frumkin
1895-1976
Erich Armand A.J. Hückel
1896-1980
James J. Drumm
1897-1974
Kálmán Tihanyi
1897-1947
Katharine Burr Blodgett
1898-1979
Russell H. Varian
1898-1959
John Alfred Valentine Butler
1899-1977
Arnold Orville Beckman
1900-2004
Samuel Ruben
1900-1988
Dennis Gabor
1900-1979

 
Scientists born after 1901 (index page with portraits and summaries)
Allen Balcom Du Mont
1901-1965
Sigurd F. Varian
1901-1961
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
1901-1967
Arne Wilhelm K. Tiselius
1902-1971
Walter Houser Brattain
1902-1987
Wiktor Kemula
1902-1985
Francis Thomas Bacon
1904-1992
Marcel Pourbaix
1904-1098
Hendrik Wade Bode
1905-1982
Rudolf Brdicka
1906-1970
Dionýz Ilkovic
1907-1980
Charles Concordia
born 1908
John Bardeen
1908-1991
William Webster Hansen
1909-1949
William Bradford Shockley
1910-1989
J.E.B. Randles
1912-1998
Robert Adler
born 1913
Edward Leonard Ginzton
1915-1998
Klaus-Jürgen Vetter
1916-1974
Veniamin G. Levich
1917-1987
Leland C. Clark
born 1918
Heinz Gerischer
1919-1994
Peter Dennis Mitchell
1920-1998
Otis Boykin
1920-1982
Paul Delahay
born 19??
Karl Kordesch
born 1922
Rudolph A. Marcus
born 1923
Hans Wenking
born 1923
Earl E. Bakken
born 1924
Alan G. MacDiarmid
born 1927
Revaz (Rezo) R. Dogonadze
1931-1985
John Robert Schrieffer
born 1931
Yuri Aleksandrovich Chizmadzhev
born 1931
Alan J. Heeger
born 1936
Hideki Shirakawa
born 1936
Janet G. Osteryoung
born 1939