Physicist computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Physicist. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
 | Albert Einstein Respected theoretical physicist. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Alessandro Volta Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Booth Inventor of Booth's multiplication algorithm that led to the invention of drum memory. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Blaise Pascal Mathematician, writer, child prodigy, and inventor of the Pascaline. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Carl Sagan Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. Category: Editor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Chester Carlson Inventor of electrophotography. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | David Deutsch British physicist who is known for the Quantum Turing machine. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Emanuel Goldberg Inventor of such inventions as microdots, the kinamo movie camera, and the Contax 35mm camera. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Enrico Fermi Father of the atomic bomb. Category: Father, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Federico Faggin Italian physicist and engineer who helped design the first commercial microprocessor. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Georg Ohm German physicist and mathematician best known for Ohm's law. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | George Pake Physicist and research executive that help found Xerox. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Giovanni Caselli Inventor of the pantelegraph, the predecessor to the modern fax machine. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Guglielmo Marconi Father of long distance radio transmission. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Heinrich Hertz German physicist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Hugh Herr American biophysicist and designer of specialized prostheses. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Professor, Writer, and X |
 | Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist known for Universal gravitation and Calculus. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jagadish Bose Indian pioneer who investigated the radio and microwave optics and made a significant contribution to plant science. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Jean Fourier Known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications of heat transfers and vibrations. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Bardeen Co-inventor of the transistor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Fleming Inventor of the first vacuum tube and diode. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Mauchly American physicist who helped develop the ENIAC, EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Napier Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and inventor of Napier's bones. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Pasta American computer scientist known for co-originating the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Karl Braun German inventor, physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who helped develop radio and television. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Karl Ganzhorn German physicist who dealt with applied physics and computer development. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Klaus Samelson German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Larry Smarr Physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, Writer, and X |
 | Louis Ridenour American physicist instrumental in U.S. development of radar. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Neil Tyson American astrophysicist and science communicator and former host of NOVA ScienceNow. Category: African American, Director, Manager, Personality, Physicist, Writer, and X |
 | Nicholas Metropolis Greek American physicist and one of the scientists during the Manhattan Project. Category: Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Norman Margolus Canadian-American computer scientist and physicist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Grunberg German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Ralph Slutz Physicist and computer pioneer and one of the first to build a computer with a central memory to store and modify data. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Richard Crandall Chief Scientist at NeXT and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. Category: Manager, Physicist, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. Category: Manager, Physicist, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Theodore Maiman Inventor of the first laser. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Vilhelm Bjerknes Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who helped found the modern practice of weather forecasting. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Walter Brattain Inventor that helped invent the transistor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Wietse Venema Dutch programmer, physicist, and Google software engineer. Category: Engineer, Manager, Personality, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Wilhelm Rontgen German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Coolidge American physicist known for his work with incandescent electric lighting. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | William Eccles British physicist and inventor of the term diode and the flip-flop circuit. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Higinbotham American physicist credited with creating one of the first computer games. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Shockley Physicist and co-inventor of the transistor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Sturgeon Physicist and inventor who was first to make electromagnets and inventor of the first practical English electric motor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |