3 lives in this collection worked in special relativity, from 1853 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: optics. All fields
Founder of the electron theory of matter, author of the Lorentz force and the Lorentz transformation, and 1902 Nobel laureate for the theory of the Zeeman effect.
theoretical physics, electromagnetism, electron theory
Creator of the geometry of numbers and of the four-dimensional spacetime formulation of special relativity.
number theory, geometry of numbers, convex geometry
Discoverer of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, author of the first relativity textbook, and a public defender of Einstein's physics in Nazi Germany.
x-ray diffraction, crystallography, special relativity