List of Austrian Scientists - Physicists, Mathematicians and Chemists

Physicists, Mathematicians and Chemists

  • Emil Artin, mathematician (Artin's conjecture)
  • Wilhelm Blaschke, mathematician
  • Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844-1906, born in Vienna
  • Norbert Bischofberger, chemist
  • Fritjof Capra, physicist
  • Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg (See Doppler effect)
  • Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician
  • Heinz Falk, chemist
  • Kurt Gödel, mathematician (born in Austria-Hungary, became naturalized U.S. citizen)
  • Thomas Gold, astrophysicist, geophysicist, controversial for 'steady state' view of cosmos and abiogenic petroleum origin theory
  • Harald Grosse, physicist
  • Wolfgang Gröbner, mathematician (best known for Gröbner basis)
  • Hans Hahn, mathematician (member of the Vienna Circle)
  • Wilhelm Karl, Ritter von Haidinger, physicist, geologist and mineralogist of the 19th century
  • Friedrich Hasenöhrl, physicist
  • Victor Franz Hess, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, chemist
  • Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998
  • Karl Kordesch, chemist and inventor
  • Anton Schrötter von Kristelli, chemist and mineralogist (red phosphor)
  • Richard Kuhn, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938
  • Johann Josef Loschmidt, physicist and chemist
  • Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher (Mach number)
  • Lise Meitner, physicist
  • Ronald Micura, chemist
  • Richard von Mises, physicist (younger brother of Ludwig von Mises)
  • Otto E. Neugebauer, mathematician and astronomer
  • Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
  • Max Ferdinand Perutz, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962
  • Josef Maximilian Petzval, physicist and mathematician
  • Fritz Pregl, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923
  • Johann Radon, mathematician
  • Otto Redlich, physical chemist
  • Leopold Ruzicka, (born in Croatia, Austria-Hungary in 1887), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944
  • Karl Schlögl, chemist
  • Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, mathematician
  • Leopold Vietoris, mathematician (1891-2002(!))
  • Victor Frederick Weisskopf, physicist (worked on the Manhattan Project)
  • Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
  • Anton Zeilinger, physicist
  • Gernot Zippe, physicist (developed Zippe-type centrifuge to extract Uranium-235 for nuclear weapons)
  • Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925

Read more about this topic:  List Of Austrian Scientists