3 lives in this collection worked in statistical physics, from 1853 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
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
French physicist who created the Langevin equation and the theory of para- and diamagnetism, framed the twin paradox, pioneered ultrasonic sonar, and led antifascist and educational causes.
statistical physics, magnetism, relativity
Creator of wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation, who named quantum entanglement and wrote What Is Life?
quantum mechanics, statistical physics, foundations of physics