4 lives in this collection worked in hydrodynamics, from 1608 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: mathematical physics. All fields
Galileo's successor at the Medici court who invented the mercury barometer, found the law of efflux, and showed that an infinitely long solid can have finite volume.
geometry, mechanics, hydrodynamics
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
Theoretical physicist who extended Bohr's atom to elliptic and relativistic orbits, introduced the fine-structure constant, founded the quantum free-electron theory of metals, and trained the leading Munich school of theoretical physics.
theoretical physics, mathematical physics, atomic physics
Italian mathematician who co-founded tensor calculus with Ricci-Curbastro, introduced parallel transport in Riemannian geometry, regularized binary collisions in the three-body problem, and was dismissed under the 1938 racial laws.
differential geometry, tensor calculus, rational mechanics