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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist
Christiaan Huygens
17th-century Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer
Émilie du Châtelet
French mathematician, physicist, and author
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist, inventor of the barometer
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
Isaac Newton
English polymath (1642–1726)
John Theophilus Desaguliers
French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath, scientist and writer (1711–1765)
Otto von Guericke
17th-century German scientist, inventor, and politician
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
Stephen Gray (scientist)
English physicist
William Gilbert (physicist)
English physician and natural philosopher