(800,000 BC) Homo erectus (controls fire)
(624 BC) Thales of Miletus
(23) Gaius Plinius Secundus
(965) Ibn al-Haytham
(1136) Al-Jazari
(1526) Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
(1642) Isaac Newton
(1666) Stephen Gray
(1698) Charles François de Cisternay du Fay
(1701) Anders Celsius
(1706) Benjamin Franklin
(1736) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
(1740) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
(1745) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
(1766) John Dalton
(1775) André-Marie Ampère
(1777) Hans Christian Ørsted
(1789) Georg Simon Ohm
(1791) Michael Faraday
(1800) Stephen Ányos Jedlik
(1802) Sir Charles Wheatstone
(1808) Hippolyte Pixii
(1816) Ernst Werner von Siemens
(1818) James Prescott Joule
(1819) Edwin Laurentine Drake
(1820) Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel
(1825) Augustin Mouchot
(1826) Zénobe Théophile Gramme
(1831) James Clerk Maxwell
(1832) Nicolaus Otto
(1839) James Blyth
(1841) Antonio Pacinotti
(1846) Poul la Cour
(1847) Thomas Edison
(1848) Lewis Latimer
(1849) Charles F. Brush
(1849) George Forbes
(1856) Nikola Tesla
(1858) Rudolf Diesel
(1858) Michael Pupin
(1858) William Stanley
(1867) Marie Curie
(1874) Guglielmo Marconi
(1878) Lise Meitner
(1879) Albert Einstein
(1882) Robert Goddard
(1882) Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
(1888) Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
(1900) Palmer Cosslett Putnam
(1902) Walter Houser Brattain
(1904) J. Robert Oppenheimer
(1906) Maria Goeppert-Mayer
(1908) John Bardeen
(1912) Herbert Franz Mataré
(1922) Rufus Stokes
(1927) Alan Graham MacDiarmid
(1929) Meredith C. Gourdine
(1936) Hideki Shirakawa
(1936) Alan Jay Heeger
(1940) George Edward Alcorn, Jr.
(1941) Paul C.W. Chu
(1944) Michael Grätzel
(1946) Ahmed Hassan Zewail
(1987) William Kamkwamba
(624 BC) Thales of Miletus
(23) Gaius Plinius Secundus
(965) Ibn al-Haytham
(1136) Al-Jazari
(1526) Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
(1642) Isaac Newton
(1666) Stephen Gray
(1698) Charles François de Cisternay du Fay
(1701) Anders Celsius
(1706) Benjamin Franklin
(1736) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
(1740) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
(1745) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
(1766) John Dalton
(1775) André-Marie Ampère
(1777) Hans Christian Ørsted
(1789) Georg Simon Ohm
(1791) Michael Faraday
(1800) Stephen Ányos Jedlik
(1802) Sir Charles Wheatstone
(1808) Hippolyte Pixii
(1816) Ernst Werner von Siemens
(1818) James Prescott Joule
(1819) Edwin Laurentine Drake
(1820) Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel
(1825) Augustin Mouchot
(1826) Zénobe Théophile Gramme
(1831) James Clerk Maxwell
(1832) Nicolaus Otto
(1839) James Blyth
(1841) Antonio Pacinotti
(1846) Poul la Cour
(1847) Thomas Edison
(1848) Lewis Latimer
(1849) Charles F. Brush
(1849) George Forbes
(1856) Nikola Tesla
(1858) Rudolf Diesel
(1858) Michael Pupin
(1858) William Stanley
(1867) Marie Curie
(1874) Guglielmo Marconi
(1878) Lise Meitner
(1879) Albert Einstein
(1882) Robert Goddard
(1882) Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
(1888) Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
(1900) Palmer Cosslett Putnam
(1902) Walter Houser Brattain
(1904) J. Robert Oppenheimer
(1906) Maria Goeppert-Mayer
(1908) John Bardeen
(1912) Herbert Franz Mataré
(1922) Rufus Stokes
(1927) Alan Graham MacDiarmid
(1929) Meredith C. Gourdine
(1936) Hideki Shirakawa
(1936) Alan Jay Heeger
(1940) George Edward Alcorn, Jr.
(1941) Paul C.W. Chu
(1944) Michael Grätzel
(1946) Ahmed Hassan Zewail
(1987) William Kamkwamba
This is just a small sampling of some key people who have influenced our contemporary understandings of the science of energy.