Physicist as a career is a very broad spectrum. This site from Science Buddies relates the general requirements and education needed to be a physicist and lists the many sub-fields in which physicists can specialize. Included is a video...

Discover the work of physicists and astronomers. This resource includes the job outlook and salary expectations.

A thorough overview of the careers of physicist and astronomer, covering nature of the work, working conditions, employment information, training requirements, and job outlook.

Provides information on the career of a physicist. Education, job prospects, and interviews with a variety of physicists are presented.

A list of famous physicists with some biographical information and mention of their accomplishments. Includes separate list of physicists who won the Nobel Prize.

Presents a brief career biography of Dr. Ken McCracken, a physicist of many colors who has worked in multiple subfields of physics. Well written and insightful into the wide variety of possibilities for careers within physics.

A career in Physics is profiled. Included: Physics overview, Preparation, Day In The Life, Earnings, Employment, Career Path Forecast, Professional Organizations.

This complicated yet interesting article describing the discovery of asymmetry between the behavior of matter and antimatter.

Presents a brief career profile of Mr. Stephen Karis, a research physicist at Phillips Laboratory, part of the United States Air Force, containing an interview and comments. Can be downloaded in PDF format.

A brief career profile of Ms. Michelle O'Brien, a physicist for the ionizing radiation division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Can be downloaded in PDF format.

Find out about Bill Mills, and learn about his work in interdisciplinary programming.

Contains a profile of Dr. Ian Newman, a biophysics researcher at the University of Tasmania. Presents a description of how he became interested in physics, what his work is like, and how his career path progressed.

Vasarosnamenyi Baro Eotvos Lorand, better known as Roland Eotvos or Lorand Eotvos throughout much of the world, was a Hungarian physicist who is most recognized for his extensive experimental work involving gravity, but who also made...

Theoretical physicist Richard Phillips Feynman greatly simplified the way in which the interactions of particles could be described through his introduction of the diagrams that now bear his name (Feynman diagrams) and was a co-recipient...

Robert Andrews Millikan was a prominent American physicist who made lasting contributions to both pure science and science education. He is particularly well known for his highly accurate determination of the charge of an electron via...

The Nobel Foundation provides a fascinating speech by O.B. Klein of the Physics Committee. Elegant, erudite, and fully explanatory of the work of Lee and Yang. His description of a physicist on another planet is very insightful. This is...

The Nobel E Museum provides biographical information on Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist and discoverer of the exclusion principle.

Read about the Soviet nuclear physicist, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989 CE), who received the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize for his "Struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations." This website is...

Learn about the life and work of physicist Lawrence Berkeley.

This brief entry describes the scientific contributions of physicist Ernest Lawrence.

General information about where physicist work and what they do. Includes facts about physicists in the workforce, physicist profiles and fields, and information targeted specifically at students, parents, and educators.

Theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger used the mathematical process of renormalization to rid the quantum field theory developed by Paul Dirac of serious incongruities with experimental observations that had nearly prompted the...

Interesting encyclopedia article about Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist and university president.

Biography of Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827), a French physicist best known for his pioneering work in optics.