Top ten Physicist

1.      Albert Einstein

Einstein was born on 14th March 1897. His education was at Swiss Federal Polytechnic from 1893-1900 and  University of Zurich in 1905. He was mostly known for general relativity, special relativity, photoelectric effect, Theory of Brownian motion, Einstein field equations, Unified field theory, EPR paradox, and many other lists of concepts.

Einstein worked in the fields of Physics and Philosophy. He received many awards as follows. Barnard Medal in 1920, Nobel Prize in Physics (1921), Matteucci Medal in 1921, ForMemRs award in 1921,  Copley Medal in 1925, Max Planck Medal in 1929, and Time person of the Century in 1999. He died on 18th April 1955 at the age of 76 years. 

2.      Isaac Newton

He was born on 25th December 1642. He was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author, and physicist. He even described his own day as the natural philosopher. He was the one who is widely recognized as one of the most influential economists of all the time. He is also a key figure in the scientific revolution. 

He was well known for Newtonian mechanisms, Calculus, Newton's laws of motion, Universal gravitation, Principia, Newton's method, optics, and binomial series. He worked in the fields of physics, natural philosophy, theology, mathematics, astronomy, economics, and alchemy. His awards are FRS in 1672 and Knight Bachelor in 1705. He died on 31st March 1727 at the age of 84 years.

3.      Richard Feynman

His full name was Richard Philips Feynman. He was born on 11th May 1918. He was an American theoretical physicist. He was well known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and the theory of quantum electrodynamics.
Richard got many awards as follows. Albert Einstein Award in 1954, E. O. Lawrence Award in 1962, Nobel prize in Physics (1965), Foreign member of the royal society in 1965, Oersted Medal in 1972, and National Medal of Science in 1979. His institution was Cornell University California Institute of Technology. He died on 15th February 1988 at the age of 69 years. His resting place was at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, US.

4.      Erwin Schrodinger

His full name was Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger. He was born on 12th August 1887. His name can also be written as Erwin Schroedinger. He was an Austrian physicist and also a noble prize winner. He developed numerous fundamental results in the field of quantum theory. His Schrodinger equation provided a way to calculate the wave function of a system.
He got many awards and some of them are Matteucci Medal in 1927, Noble Prize in Physics (1933), and Max Plank Medal in 1937. He died on 4th January 1961 at the age of 73 years.

5.      Niels Bohr

His full name was Niels Henrik David Bohr. He was born on 7th October 1885. He was a Danish physicist who made main contributions for understanding the atomic structure and quantum theory. For his research work, he received the Nobel prize in Physics in 1922, philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.
Theoretical physics is his field. His thesis Studies on the Electron Theory of Metals in 1911 was most famous among his works. He died on 18th November 1962 at the age of 77 years.

6.      Paul Dirac

His full name was Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. He was born on 8th August 1902. He was an English theoretical physicist. He was an English theoretical physicist. Many regarded him as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th Century. For the early developments of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics, he made many fundamental contributions.
He won many awards like Nobel prize in Physics in 1933, Royal Medal in 1939, Copley Medal in 1952, Max Plank Medal in 1952, and Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930. He worked as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He spent the last decade of his life at Florida State University. He died on 20th October 1984 at the age of 82 years.

7.      Galileo Galilei

He was born on 15th February 1564. He was an Italian astronomer, engineer, and physicist. He sometimes can also be described as a polymath. Often, he was called as the Father of Observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, the father of modern science, and the father of scientific method.
His nationality was Italian. He was known for most of his works like kinematics, Dynamics, Telescopic observation, astronomy, and Heliocentrism. His fields are astronomy, physics, mathematics, engineering, and natural philosophy. He died on 8th January 1642 at the age of 77 years.

8.      James Clerk Maxwell

James was born on 13th June 1831. He was a Scottish scientist who worked in the field of mathematical physics. His citizenship was British. He was well known for Maxwell's equation, Maxwell relations, Maxwell distribution, Maxwell discs, Maxwell's demon, Maxwell Coil, Maxwell's theorem, and Maxwell material.
Clerk's awards are FRS, FRSE, Smith's prize in 1854, Adams prize in 1857, Rumford Medal in 1860, and Keith prize in 1869-71. William Hopkins was his academic advisor. He died on 5th November 1879 at the age of 48 years.

9.      Stephen Hawking

He was born on 8th January 1942. He was born at Oxford, England. The large scale structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, 300 years of gravitation, with W Israel are his most notable publications. Many of his awards were CBE in 1982, Companion of Honour in 1989, and the Presidential Medal of freedom in 2009. He died on 14th March 2018 at the age of 76 years.

10.  Max Planck

Max can be called with full name as Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck. He was born on 23rd April 1858. He was a German theoretical physicist. His discovery of energy quanta bought him Nobel award in Physics in 1918. He was well known for Plank constant, Planck's law of black body radiation, Fokker-Planck equation, Third law of thermodynamics, and Planck postulate.
Max's awards are Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, Copley Medal in 1929, Max Planck Medal in 1929, and the Goethe Prize in 1945. He died on 4th October 1947 at the age of 89 years.