Physicist Teacher Resources

Biography of Anders Jonas Angstrom (1814-1874), a Swedish physicist who pioneered the field of spectroscopy. He was also well known for his work in mathematics and astronomy.

Learn about the life and work of English pop star-turned-physicist, Brian Cox.

This is biographical information, uuotes, a bibliography and links to other resources on the popular American physicist Carl Sagan.

Read about the work of Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and learn how he showed the world the power of the atom.

Wikipedia provides biographical information on Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist who recieved the Nobel Prize at the age of thirty-one.

Ira talks with Rush Holt, plasma physicist and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, about how the troubled economic times may affect the outlook for science and technology in the US. [9:12]

Science Friday talks with one of the co-creators of the graphic novel Watchmen, and with a physicist who was a consultant to the feature film.

Use this illustrated guide to understand the definition of energy. Includes some facinating quotes from famous physicists.

Spanish-language site lets students discover the life and work of this physicist and engineer, who is known for his studies of electric charges.

Mathematics and Science often go together in physics and other studies. This site explores a physicist who utilized both fields to advance the ideas of relativity and other concepts.

In this Spanish-language entry, trace the life and accomplishments of Werner Heisenberg, the great physicist whose work with quantum mechanics resulted in earning the Nobel Prize.

Biography of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), one of the most famous physicists of the last century, best known for his theory of relativity.

This biography of the physicist Richard Feynman surveys his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb as well as his work on quantum electrostatics.

The discovery of radio waves, which was widely seen as confirmation of James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and paved the way for numerous advances in communication technology, was made by German physicist Heinrich Hertz. In the...

Murray Gell-Mann is a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969 for his contributions to elementary particle physics. He is particularly well known for his role in bringing organization into the world of subatomic...

At the turn of the 19th century, scientists were beginning to gain a rudimentary understanding of electricity and magnetism, but they knew almost nothing about the relationship between the two. Baltic German physicist Heinrich Lenz took...

Klaus von Klitzing is a Nobel laureate who won the award in 1985 for his discovery of the quantized Hall effect, sometimes referred to as the quantum Hall effect. Von Klitzing's discovery resulted from his work exploring a phenomenon...

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist who first observed the phenomenon of superconductivity while carrying out pioneering work in the field of cryogenics. An important step on the way to this discovery was his success in...

Isidor Isaac Rabi won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his development of a technique for measuring the magnetic characteristics of atomic nuclei. Rabi's technique was based on the resonance principle first described by Irish...

Joseph John Thomson, better known as J. J. Thomson, was a British physicist who first theorized and offered experimental evidence that the atom was a divisible entity rather than the basic unit of matter, as was widely believed at the...

Japanese theoretical physicist Sin-Itiro Tomonaga resolved key problems with the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) developed by Paul Dirac in the late 1920s through the use of a mathematical technique he referred to as...

John Preskill, a theoretical physicist, explains what quantum computing is, and how it may revolutionize the future of computers. These computers are microscopic, yet millions of times faster than what is possible today. He describes the...

Learn about English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, Arthur Eddington. He is noted for his groundbreaking research work in astrophysics.

Learn about the life and work of quantum physicist, David Bohm, who was a leading expert in the fields of theoretical physics, neuropsychology, and philosophy.