Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.
Joseph Fourier (21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. The Fourier transform and Fourier’s law are also named in his honour.
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian-born Swiss and American theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics…
Sir Isaac Newton,(died March 31, 1727) was English physicist and mathematician. In optics, he discovered the composition of white light. In mechanics, his three laws of motion, the basic principles of modern physics, resulted in the formulation of the law of universal gravitation.
