Physicists

The smartest humans in history are ranked.

Hint: It involves Larry Summers.

Videos and Images for Max Planck (German physicist)

Philip Ball revisits a book that crystallized key concepts in modern molecular biology.

Discussions of physics often give too much weight to individual "geniuses," but explainers and educators play a role that is just as essential.

American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. 1958. © Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos

James Clerk Maxwell's work on electromagnetism ranks him among Einstein and Newton as one of history's greatest physicists.

Richard Feynman. Portrait of the American atomic physicist Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988).

Jacques Charles, in full Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, (born November 12, 1746, Beaugency, France—died April 7, 1823, Paris), French mathematician, physicist, and inventor who, with Nicolas Robert, was the first to ascend in a hydrogen balloon (1783). About 1787 he developed Charles’s law concerning the thermal expansion of gases. From clerking in the finance ministry Charles turned to science and experimented with electricity. He developed several inventions, including a hydrometer and…

Atheism, Religion, God is Imaginary. People who think scientifically advance our knowledge of the world. The challenge is to understand as much as we can, and curiosity - unconstrained by dogma - is what is required.