5 lives in this collection worked in electricity, from 1544 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Elizabethan physician whose De Magnete (1600) showed that the Earth is a great magnet and first distinguished electrical from magnetic attraction.
magnetism, electricity, geomagnetism
Printer and statesman whose one-fluid theory of electricity introduced conservation of charge and positive and negative, and who proved lightning electrical and invented the lightning rod.
electricity, atmospheric physics, oceanography
Dissenting minister and experimenter who isolated oxygen and many other gases, discovered that plants restore air, and inferred the inverse-square law of electric force.
chemistry, electricity, natural philosophy
Lombard physicist who invented the electrophorus, the condenser and the voltaic pile, the first source of continuous electric current.
electricity, electrochemistry, pneumatic chemistry
German physicist who established by experiment and theory that the current in a circuit is proportional to its driving tension and inversely proportional to its resistance.
electricity, mathematical physics, acoustics