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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist
Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry
American physicist
George Green
British mathematician
Steven Weinberg
American physicist
Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist
Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot
French physicist
Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.
Sir Nevill F. Mott
British physicist
Abdus Salam
Pakistani physicist
Sir Alfred Ewing
British physicist
Henry Augustus Rowland
American physicist
Sheldon Glashow
American physicist
Wolfgang Paul
German physicist
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
German physicist
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist

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