4 lives in this collection worked in electrostatics, from 1602 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: elasticity. All fields
Magdeburg engineer and burgomaster who invented the air pump and demonstrated atmospheric pressure with the Magdeburg hemispheres.
pneumatics, vacuum physics, electrostatics
English natural philosopher who isolated hydrogen, showed the composition of water, tested the inverse-square law of electricity, and weighed the Earth with a torsion balance.
experimental physics, electrostatics, gravitation
French military engineer and physicist who measured the inverse-square law of electric force with his torsion balance and founded the classical laws of friction and earth pressure.
electrostatics, magnetism, applied mechanics
Self-taught Nottingham miller who introduced the potential function, Green's theorem and Green's functions in his 1828 Essay.
potential theory, mathematical physics, electrostatics