1. Jacques Charles (1746)

French Physicist

French scientist, mathematician and inventor who launched the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon in 1783 and was the inspiration for Charles's law which describes how gases tend to expand when heated.

2. Léon Foucault (1819)

French Physicist

French physicist who demonstrated the Earth's rotation and measured the speed of light. For his breakthrough discoveries he was elected a member of the Royal Society of London, even though...

3. Henri Becquerel (1852)

French Physicist

French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize In Physics for helping to discover radioactivity. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq) is named in his honor.

4. Jean Dalibard (1958)

French Physicist

Jean Dalibard is a French physicist Professor at the École Polytechnique member of the French Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2009 Dalibard received...

5. Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927)

French Physicist

Hélène Langevin-Joliot is a French nuclear physicist. She was educated at the Institut de physique nucléaire at Orsay a laboratory which was set up by her parents Irène Joliot-Curie and...

6. Loup Verlet (Unknow)

French Physicist

Loup Verlet is a French physicist who pioneered the computer simulation of molecular dynamics models. In a famous 1967 paper he used what is now known as Verlet integration and...

7. Roger Balian (1933)

French Physicist

Roger Balian is a French-Armenian physicist who has worked on quantum thermodynamics and theory of measurement. Balian is a member of French Académie des sciences. His important work includes the...

8. Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900)

French Physicist

Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie born Jean Frédéric Joliot was a French physicist husband of Irène Joliot-Curie and Nobel laureate.

9. Édouard Brézin (1938)

French Physicist

Édouard Brézin is a French theoretical physicist. He is professor at Université Paris 6 working at the laboratory for theoretical physics of the École Normale Supérieure since 1986. Brézin studied...

10. Eugène Cremmer (1942)

French Physicist

Eugène Cremmer is a French physicist. He is directeur de recherche at the CNRS working at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1978 together with Bernard Julia and Joël Scherk he...

11. Jacques Lewiner (1943)

French Physicist

Jacques Lewiner born in 1943 is a French physicist and inventor. He is Professor and Honorary Scientific Director of École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville...

12. Claude Pouillet (1791)

French Physicist

Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet was a French physicist and a professor of physics at the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy of Science. Succeeding Dulong he became the fourth...

13. Jacques Prost (1946)

French Physicist

Jacques Prost born in 1946 in Bourg-en-Bresse is a French physicist General director of École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris member of the...

14. Catherine Bréchignac (1946)

French Physicist

Catherine Bréchignac is a French physicist. She is an Officer of the Légion d'honneur President of the International Council for Science and former president of the CNRS Europe's largest scientific...

15. André Neveu (1946)

French Physicist

André Neveu is a French physicist working on string theory and quantum field theory who coinvented the Neveu-Schwarz algebra and the Gross-Neveu model. Neveu studied in Paris at the École...

16. Adlène Hicheur (1976)

French Physicist

Adlène Hicheur is a particle physicist with dual Algerian and French citizenship. After his master of theoretical physics in Lyon he joined LAPP to work on the BaBar experiment located...

17. Gérald Bastard (1950)

French Physicist

Gérald Bastard is a highly cited French physicist known for his work on semiconductor heterostructures. As of 2011 he is a research director at the Department of Physics of the...

18. Ludwik Leibler (1951)

French Physicist

Ludwick Leibler is a French physicist. He is Professor at École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris Research Director at CNRS and a member...

19. Thibault Damour (Unknow)

French Physicist

Thibault Damour is a French physicist. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques since 1989. An expert in general relativity he has long...

20. Françoise Combes (1952)

French Physicist

çoise Combes is a French astrophysicist and a professor at the Paris Observatory. From 1971 to 1975 she studied at the École Normale Supérieure.

21. Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (1962)

French Physicist

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud is a French physicist born in 1962. He is founder and Chairman of Capital Fund Management and professor of physics at École polytechnique.

22. Louis Michel (physicist) (Unknow)

French Physicist

Louis Michel was a French mathematical physicist at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. He was born in Roanne near Loire on 4 May 1923 and died in Bures-sur-Yvette on...

23. Lucien Poincaré (1862)

French Physicist

Lucien Poincaré was a distinguished French physicist.

24. Alfred Kastler (1902)

French Physicist

Alfred Kastler was a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. Kastler was born in Guebwiller and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar Alsace and École Normale Supérieure in Paris...

25. Edmond Pourchot (Unknow)

French Physicist

Edmond Pourchot was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism in place of Aristotelianism.

26. Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond (1940)

French Physicist

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond is a physicist and essayist. After a doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the université d’Orsay in 1965 he was successively in charge of research at CNRS lecturer at...

27. Alain Aspect (1947)

French Physicist

Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.

28. Nicolas Grandjean (1967)

French Physicist

Nicolas Grandjean is a French professor of physics. His achievements include over 600 books and articles giving him an h-index of 53.

29. Philippe Bouyer (1969)

French Physicist

Philippe Bouyer is a famous French physicist, who was born on March 7, 1969 in France. According to Astrologers, Philippe Bouyer's zodiac sign is Pisces.
Philippe Bouyer (born 7 March 1969)...

30. Antoine Georges (1961)

French Physicist

Antoine Georges is a famous French physicist, who was born on April 14, 1961 in France. According to Astrologers, Antoine Georges's zodiac sign is Aries.
Antoine Georges (born 14 April 1961)...