Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Cleveland Abbe |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1838 |
28-Oct-1916 |
America's first weatherman |
Charles Greeley Abbot |
Astronomer |
31-May-1872 |
17-Dec-1973 |
Solar energy |
Alexei A. Abrikosov |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1928 |
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Particle physicist, explored superconductivity |
Robert Adler |
Physicist |
4-Dec-1913 |
15-Feb-2007 |
Invented wireless remote control |
Howard Aiken |
Physicist |
8-Mar-1900 |
14-Mar-1973 |
Designer of early computers |
Hannes Alfvén |
Physicist |
30-May-1908 |
2-Apr-1995 |
Renegade Swedish astrophysicist |
David Alter |
Inventor |
3-Dec-1807 |
18-Sep-1881 |
Almost discovered spectroscopy |
Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs |
Guillaume Amontons |
Physicist |
31-Aug-1663 |
11-Oct-1705 |
Thermometrist |
André-Marie Ampère |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1775 |
10-Jun-1836 |
Explored electromagnetism |
Carl David Anderson |
Physicist |
3-Sep-1905 |
11-Jan-1991 |
Discovered the positron, mu-meson |
Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
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Solid state physics |
Anders Jonas Ångström |
Physicist |
13-Aug-1814 |
21-Jun-1874 |
Founder of spectroscopy |
Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
François Arago |
Physicist |
26-Feb-1786 |
2-Oct-1853 |
Investigated earth magnetics |
Svante Arrhenius |
Chemist |
19-Feb-1859 |
2-Oct-1927 |
Explored electrolytic conductivity |
Francis W. Aston |
Chemist |
1-Sep-1877 |
20-Nov-1945 |
Invented the mass spectograph |
Pierre Auger |
Physicist |
14-May-1899 |
25-Dec-1993 |
Auger effect |
Amedeo Avogadro |
Physicist |
9-Aug-1776 |
9-Jul-1856 |
Avogadro's number |
Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
Alexander Dallas Bache |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1806 |
17-Feb-1867 |
First President, National Academy of Sciences |
Kenneth Bainbridge |
Physicist |
27-Jul-1904 |
14-Jul-1996 |
Director of the Trinity atomic test |
John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
Charles Glover Barkla |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1877 |
23-Oct-1944 |
X-ray scattering |
Nikolay G. Basov |
Physicist |
14-Dec-1922 |
1-Jul-2001 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
David Bates |
Astronomer |
18-Nov-1916 |
5-Jan-1994 |
Atmospheric and interstellar physics |
Henri Becquerel |
Physicist |
15-Dec-1852 |
25-Aug-1908 |
Discoverer of radioactivity |
J. Georg Bednorz |
Physicist |
16-May-1950 |
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High-temperature superconductivity |
John Stewart Bell |
Physicist |
28-Jun-1928 |
1-Oct-1990 |
Bell's theorem of quantum physics |
Gregory Benford |
Novelist |
30-Jan-1941 |
|
Physicist and author of Timescape |
Hans Berger |
Physicist |
21-May-1873 |
1-Jun-1941 |
Electroencephalogram |
J. D. Bernal |
Physicist |
10-May-1901 |
15-Sep-1971 |
X-ray crystallography |
Daniel Bernoulli |
Mathematician |
8-Feb-1700 |
27-Mar-1782 |
Fluid dynamics |
Hans Bethe |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1906 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Atomic scientist |
Ludwig Biermann |
Astronomer |
13-Mar-1907 |
12-Jan-1986 |
Solar winds |
Gerd Binnig |
Physicist |
20-Jul-1947 |
|
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
Jean-Baptiste Biot |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1774 |
3-Feb-1862 |
Biot-Savart Law |
Patrick M. S. Blackett |
Physicist |
18-Nov-1897 |
13-Jul-1974 |
Cosmic radiation, continental drift |
Brebis Bleaney |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1915 |
4-Nov-2006 |
Electron paramagnetic resonance |
Felix Bloch |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1905 |
10-Sep-1983 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
Nicolaas Bloembergen |
Physicist |
11-Mar-1920 |
|
Nonlinear optics |
David Bohm |
Physicist |
20-Dec-1917 |
29-Oct-1992 |
Particle physicist |
Aage N. Bohr |
Physicist |
19-Jun-1922 |
8-Sep-2009 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
Niels Bohr |
Physicist |
7-Oct-1885 |
18-Nov-1962 |
Father of Quantum Theory |
Alec Boksenberg |
Astronomer |
18-Mar-1936 |
|
Image Photon Counting System |
John G. Bolton |
Astronomer |
5-Jun-1922 |
6-Jul-1993 |
First Director of Parkes Observatory |
Ludwig Boltzmann |
Physicist |
20-Feb-1844 |
5-Sep-1906 |
Atoms and molecules |
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli |
Doctor |
28-Jan-1608 |
31-Dec-1679 |
De motu animalium |
Max Born |
Physicist |
11-Dec-1882 |
5-Jan-1970 |
Pioneer of quantum mechanics |
J. C. Bose |
Botanist |
30-Nov-1858 |
23-Nov-1937 |
Plant physiology |
Satyendra Nath Bose |
Physicist |
1-Jan-1894 |
4-Feb-1974 |
Bose-Einstein condensates |
Walther Bothe |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1891 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Coincidence method |
Edward Bouchet |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1852 |
28-Oct-1918 |
First African-American PhD |
Willard S. Boyle |
Physicist |
19-Aug-1924 |
7-May-2011 |
Digital photography |
Lawrence Bragg |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1890 |
1-Jul-1971 |
Bragg's Law of diffraction |
William Bragg |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1862 |
12-Mar-1942 |
Analyzed crystal structures |
Walter H. Brattain |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1902 |
13-Oct-1987 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
Ferdinand Braun |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1850 |
20-Apr-1918 |
Rectifier effect in semiconductors |
Gregory Breit |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1899 |
11-Sep-1981 |
Proton-proton dispersion |
Percy Williams Bridgman |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1882 |
20-Aug-1961 |
High-pressure physics |
Bertram N. Brockhouse |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1918 |
13-Oct-2003 |
Triple-axis crystal spectrometry |
Louis de Broglie |
Physicist |
15-Aug-1892 |
19-Mar-1987 |
Discovered the wave nature of electrons |
Maurice de Broglie |
Physicist |
27-Apr-1875 |
14-Jul-1960 |
X-ray spectroscopy |
Edward Bullard |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1907 |
3-Apr-1980 |
Continental drift, magnetic fields |
E. Margaret Burbidge |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1919 |
|
Synthesis of the elements in stars |
Geoffrey Burbidge |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1925 |
26-Jan-2010 |
Quasi-steady state cosmology |
William W. Campbell |
Astronomer |
11-Apr-1862 |
14-Jun-1938 |
Stellar Motions |
Claude R. Canizares |
Physicist |
1945 |
|
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics |
Fritjof Capra |
Physicist |
1-Feb-1939 |
|
The Tao of Physics |
Chester Carlson |
Inventor |
8-Feb-1906 |
19-Sep-1968 |
Invented Xerography |
Sadi Carnot |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1796 |
24-Aug-1832 |
2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
Élie Cartan |
Mathematician |
9-Apr-1869 |
6-May-1951 |
Spinor groups |
Henry Cavendish |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1731 |
24-Feb-1810 |
Discovered hydrogen |
James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Astronomer |
19-Oct-1910 |
21-Aug-1995 |
Evolutionary stages of stars |
Sydney Chapman |
Mathematician |
29-Jan-1888 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Geomagnetism |
Carl Charlier |
Astronomer |
1-Apr-1862 |
5-Nov-1934 |
Motion and the Distribution of the Stars |
Georges Charpak |
Physicist |
1-Aug-1924 |
29-Sep-2010 |
Subatomic particle detectors |
Pavel A. Cherenkov |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1904 |
6-Jan-1990 |
Cherenkov radiation |
Charles Chree |
Astronomer |
5-May-1860 |
12-Aug-1928 |
Geomagnetic phenomena |
Steven Chu |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
John Clarke |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1942 |
|
Superconducting quantum interference |
Rudolf Clausius |
Physicist |
2-Jan-1822 |
24-Aug-1888 |
Second Law of Thermodynamics |
William W. Coblentz |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1873 |
15-Sep-1962 |
Infrared spectroscopy |
William Cochran |
Physicist |
30-Jul-1922 |
28-Aug-2003 |
Crystallography |
John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
Samuel T. Cohen |
Physicist |
25-Jan-1921 |
28-Nov-2010 |
Neutron bomb |
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
Physicist |
1-Apr-1933 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
Cadwallader Colden |
Physicist |
7-Feb-1689 |
20-Sep-1776 |
Colonial scientist and statesman |
Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
Allan M. Cormack |
Physicist |
23-Feb-1924 |
7-May-1998 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
Eric A. Cornell |
Physicist |
19-Dec-1961 |
|
Atomic physicist, Nobel laureate |
Alfred Cornu |
Physicist |
6-Mar-1841 |
11-Apr-1902 |
Optics and spectroscopy |
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb |
Physicist |
14-Jun-1736 |
23-Aug-1806 |
Coulomb's Law |
Clyde Cowan |
Physicist |
6-Dec-1919 |
24-May-1974 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1920 |
20-Apr-2012 |
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
James W. Cronin |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1931 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
Sir William Crookes |
Chemist |
17-Jun-1832 |
4-Apr-1919 |
Discovered element Thallium |
Paul J. Crutzen |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1933 |
|
Ozone depletion |
Pierre Curie |
Physicist |
15-May-1859 |
19-Apr-1906 |
Early investigator of radiation |
Jean le Rond d'Alembert |
Mathematician |
17-Nov-1717 |
29-Oct-1783 |
Early work in partial differential equations |
Harry K. Daghlian |
Physicist |
4-May-1921 |
15-Sep-1945 |
Casualty of the Manhattan Project |
Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
John Dalton |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1766 |
27-Jul-1844 |
Early proponent of Atomic Theory |
Paul Davies |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1946 |
|
The Mind of God |
Clinton Davisson |
Physicist |
22-Oct-1881 |
1-Feb-1958 |
Diffraction of electrons |
Peter Debye |
Physicist |
24-Mar-1884 |
2-Nov-1966 |
Studied molecular structure, dipoles |
Hans G. Dehmelt |
Physicist |
9-Sep-1922 |
|
Co-Inventor of the ion trap |
Jean-André Deluc |
Geologist |
8-Feb-1727 |
7-Nov-1817 |
Lettres... sur les montagnes |
Henri Alexandre Deslandres |
Astronomer |
24-Jul-1853 |
15-Jan-1948 |
Spectroheliograph |
Martin Deutsch |
Physicist |
29-Jun-1917 |
16-Aug-2002 |
Discovered positronium |
James Dewar |
Physicist |
20-Sep-1842 |
27-Mar-1923 |
Researcher of low temperatures |
Robert H. Dicke |
Physicist |
6-May-1916 |
4-Mar-1997 |
Dicke radiometer |
Paul Dirac |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1902 |
20-Oct-1984 |
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
|
Inventor of Dolby stereo |
John Dollond |
Physicist |
10-Jun-1706 |
30-Nov-1761 |
Invented achromatic lenses |
Christian Doppler |
Physicist |
29-Nov-1803 |
17-Mar-1853 |
Discovered the Doppler Effect |
Sidney D. Drell |
Physicist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
In the Shadow of the Bomb |
William Duddell |
Physicist |
1872 |
4-Nov-1917 |
Electronic music |
Freeman Dyson |
Physicist |
15-Dec-1923 |
|
Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study |
Roger Easton |
Inventor |
30-Apr-1921 |
|
Global Positioning System |
Arthur Eddington |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1882 |
22-Nov-1944 |
Eddington luminosity |
Manfred Eigen |
Physicist |
9-May-1927 |
|
Studied fast chemical reactions |
Albert Einstein |
Physicist |
14-Mar-1879 |
18-Apr-1955 |
Theory of relativity |
Artur Ekert |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1961 |
|
Quantum cryptography |
Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
Hugh Everett |
Physicist |
11-Nov-1930 |
19-Jul-1982 |
Many Worlds Theory of quantum physics |
Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
Paul Peter Ewald |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1888 |
22-Aug-1985 |
X-Ray crystallographer |
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit |
Physicist |
24-May-1686 |
16-Sep-1736 |
Thermometrist |
Michael Faraday |
Physicist |
22-Sep-1791 |
25-Aug-1867 |
Discovered electrical induction |
Philo Farnsworth |
Inventor |
19-Aug-1906 |
11-Mar-1971 |
Inventor of electronic television |
Enrico Fermi |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1901 |
29-Nov-1954 |
First controlled nuclear chain reaction |
Galileo Ferraris |
Physicist |
31-Oct-1847 |
7-Feb-1897 |
Invented the induction motor |
Albert Fert |
Physicist |
7-Mar-1938 |
|
Giant magnetoresistance |
Richard Feynman |
Physicist |
11-May-1918 |
15-Feb-1988 |
Surely he's joking |
Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
Bill Foster |
Politician |
7-Oct-1955 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 2008-11 |
Léon Foucault |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1819 |
11-Feb-1868 |
Measured the speed of light |
Alfred Fowler |
Astronomer |
22-Mar-1868 |
24-Jun-1940 |
Celestial spectroscopy |
Peter Fowler |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1923 |
8-Nov-1996 |
Cosmic radiation |
William A. Fowler |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1911 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Element generation within stars |
James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
Ilya M. Frank |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1908 |
22-Jun-1990 |
Cherenkov radiation |
Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
Physicist |
10-May-1788 |
14-Jul-1827 |
Optician, invented Fresnel lens |
Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
Otto Robert Frisch |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1904 |
22-Sep-1979 |
Described fission |
Klaus Fuchs |
Spy |
29-Dec-1911 |
28-Jan-1988 |
Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR |
Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
George Gamow |
Physicist |
4-Mar-1904 |
19-Aug-1968 |
Proponent of Big Bang Theory |
Pierre Gassendi |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1592 |
24-Oct-1655 |
Exercitationes |
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1778 |
9-May-1850 |
Researched gases, etc. |
Hans Geiger |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1882 |
24-Sep-1945 |
Co-Inventor of the Geiger Counter |
Andre Geim |
Physicist |
Oct-1958 |
|
Super-thin carbon physics |
Heinrich Geissler |
Inventor |
26-May-1815 |
24-Jan-1879 |
Geissler tube |
Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
Physicist |
24-Oct-1932 |
18-May-2007 |
Molecular structure of polymers |
Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
Riccardo Giacconi |
Astronomer |
6-Oct-1931 |
|
Discovered cosmic X-ray sources |
Ivar Giaever |
Physicist |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Tunneling through superconductors |
J. Willard Gibbs |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1839 |
28-Apr-1903 |
Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics |
William Gilbert |
Physicist |
24-May-1544 |
10-Dec-1603 |
De Magnete |
Vitaly L. Ginzburg |
Physicist |
4-Oct-1916 |
8-Nov-2009 |
Type-II superconductors |
Donald A. Glaser |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1926 |
|
Inventor of the bubble chamber |
Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
Roy J. Glauber |
Physicist |
1-Sep-1925 |
|
Quantum optics |
Maria Goeppert-Mayer |
Physicist |
28-Jun-1906 |
20-Feb-1972 |
Shell nuclear model |
Maurice Goldhaber |
Physicist |
18-Apr-1911 |
11-May-2011 |
Neutrons |
Eugen Goldstein |
Physicist |
5-Sep-1850 |
25-Dec-1930 |
Cathode rays |
Samuel Goudsmit |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1902 |
4-Dec-1978 |
Conceived idea of Quantum Spin |
Gordon Gould |
Physicist |
17-Jul-1920 |
16-Sep-2005 |
Invented the laser, arguably |
Ernest Howard Griffiths |
Physicist |
15-Jun-1851 |
3-Mar-1932 |
The Thermal Measurement of Energy |
David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
Peter Grünberg |
Physicist |
18-May-1939 |
|
Giant magnetoresistance |
Charles Édouard Guillaume |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1861 |
13-Jun-1938 |
Invented alloys Invar and Elinvar |
Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory of cosmology |
John Hagelin |
Activist |
9-Jun-1954 |
|
Natural Law Party |
Edwin Hall |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1855 |
20-Nov-1938 |
Discovered the Hall Effect |
John L. Hall |
Physicist |
21-Aug-1934 |
|
Quantum optics |
Theodor W. Hänsch |
Physicist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
Quantum optics |
James E. Hansen |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1941 |
|
Greenhouse effect and global warming |
William Snow Harris |
Physicist |
1-Apr-1791 |
22-Jan-1867 |
Invented a lightning rod for ships |
George Russell Harrison |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1898 |
27-Jul-1979 |
Echelle spectrograph |
Martin Harwit |
Astronomer |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy |
Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Wheelchair-bound physicist |
Chushiro Hayashi |
Astronomer |
25-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2010 |
Big Bang astrophysicist |
Otto Heckmann |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1901 |
13-May-1983 |
Investigated cosmic expansion |
Alan J. Heeger |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1936 |
|
Metallic polymers |
Werner Heisenberg |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1901 |
1-Feb-1976 |
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
Joseph Henry |
Physicist |
17-Dec-1797 |
13-May-1878 |
Discovered electromagnetic induction |
Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
George Herbig |
Astronomer |
2-Jan-1920 |
|
Herbig-Haro objects |
Gustav Hertz |
Physicist |
22-Jul-1887 |
30-Oct-1975 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
Heinrich Hertz |
Physicist |
22-Feb-1857 |
1-Jan-1894 |
Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation |
Gerhard Herzberg |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
Victor Francis Hess |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1883 |
17-Dec-1964 |
Proved cosmic origin of radiation |
Raymond Hide |
Physicist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
Peter Higgs |
Physicist |
29-May-1929 |
|
Higgs boson and Higgs field |
William A. Higinbotham |
Physicist |
25-Oct-1910 |
10-Nov-1994 |
Physicist, Tennis for Two |
David Hilbert |
Mathematician |
23-Jan-1862 |
14-Feb-1943 |
Hilbert Space |
James Hillier |
Physicist |
22-Aug-1915 |
15-Jan-2007 |
Electron microscope |
Johann Hittorf |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1824 |
28-Nov-1914 |
Fluorescence in vacuum tubes |
Robert Hofstadter |
Physicist |
5-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-1990 |
Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
Nick Holonyak |
Physicist |
3-Nov-1928 |
|
Light-emitting diodes |
Gerardus 't Hooft |
Physicist |
5-Jul-1946 |
|
Quantum physicist |
Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
Evelyn Hu |
Physicist |
c. 1947 |
|
Nanoscale device fabrication |
David Hughes |
Inventor |
16-May-1831 |
22-Jan-1900 |
Inventor of the microphone |
Vernon W. Hughes |
Physicist |
28-May-1921 |
25-Mar-2003 |
Muons |
Albert Wallace Hull |
Physicist |
19-Apr-1880 |
22-Jan-1966 |
Inventor of the magnetron tube |
Russell A. Hulse |
Physicist |
28-Nov-1950 |
|
Co-Discovered first binary pulsar |
Friedrich Hund |
Physicist |
4-Feb-1896 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Quantum tunneling |
Christiaan Huygens |
Physicist |
14-Apr-1629 |
8-Jul-1695 |
Wave theory of light |
George Isaak |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1933 |
5-Jun-2005 |
Resonant scattering spectroscopy |
Herbert E. Ives |
Physicist |
21-Jul-1882 |
13-Nov-1953 |
Facsimile machine |
Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
James H. Jeans |
Astronomer |
11-Sep-1877 |
16-Sep-1946 |
Continuous creation theory |
J. Hans D. Jensen |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1907 |
11-Feb-1973 |
Shell nuclear model |
Deborah S. Jin |
Physicist |
c. 1968 |
|
Created a fermionic condensate |
Frédéric Joliot |
Physicist |
19-Mar-1900 |
14-Aug-1958 |
Artificial radioactivity |
Irène Joliot-Curie |
Physicist |
12-Sep-1897 |
17-Mar-1956 |
Artificial radioactivity |
Pascual Jordan |
Physicist |
18-Oct-1902 |
31-Jul-1980 |
Founder of Quantum Mechanics |
Brian D. Josephson |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Discovered the Josephson Effect |
James Prescott Joule |
Physicist |
24-Dec-1818 |
11-Oct-1889 |
English physicist, Joule's Law |
Michio Kaku |
Physicist |
24-Jan-1947 |
|
String Theory |
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1853 |
21-Feb-1926 |
Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity |
Pyotr Kapitsa |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1894 |
8-Apr-1984 |
Discovered superfluidity |
Alfred Kastler |
Physicist |
3-May-1902 |
7-Jan-1984 |
Optical pumping |
Lord Kelvin |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1824 |
17-Dec-1907 |
Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
Nicholas Kemmer |
Physicist |
7-Dec-1911 |
21-Oct-1998 |
Nuclear weapons and reactors |
Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
Arthur E. Kennelly |
Physicist |
17-Dec-1861 |
18-Jun-1939 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
Jay Keyworth |
Physicist |
c. 1939 |
|
Science advisor to Reagan |
Abdul Qadeer Khan |
Physicist |
1935 |
|
Father of Pakistani nuclear bomb |
Tom Kibble |
Mathematician |
1932 |
|
Zurek-Kibble theory |
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1824 |
17-Oct-1887 |
Theory of spectrum analysis |
Klaus von Klitzing |
Physicist |
28-Jun-1943 |
|
Quantization of resistance |
Makoto Kobayashi |
Physicist |
7-Apr-1944 |
|
Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix |
Masatoshi Koshiba |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1926 |
|
Detected cosmic neutrinos |
Hendrik Kramers |
Physicist |
17-Feb-1894 |
24-Apr-1952 |
Kramers dispersion theory |
Herbert Kroemer |
Physicist |
25-Aug-1928 |
|
Pioneer in laser technology |
Nicholas Kurti |
Physicist |
14-May-1908 |
24-Nov-1998 |
Molecular gastronomy |
Polykarp Kusch |
Physicist |
26-Jan-1911 |
20-Mar-1993 |
Magnetic moment of the electron |
Willis Lamb |
Physicist |
12-Jul-1913 |
15-May-2008 |
Detailed the hydrogen spectrum |
Johann Heinrich Lambert |
Mathematician |
26-Aug-1728 |
25-Sep-1777 |
Pyrometrie |
Lev Landau |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1908 |
1-Apr-1968 |
Superfluidity of helium |
Paul Langevin |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1872 |
19-Dec-1946 |
Studied piezoelectricity |
Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
Max von Laue |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1879 |
23-Apr-1960 |
X-ray crystallography |
Robert B. Laughlin |
Physicist |
1-Nov-1950 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
Ernest Lawrence |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1901 |
27-Aug-1958 |
Inventor of the cyclotron |
Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
David M. Lee |
Physicist |
20-Jan-1931 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
Tsung-Dao Lee |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1926 |
|
Violations of parity law |
Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
Robert B. Leighton |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1919 |
9-Mar-1997 |
Leighton dishes |
Philipp Lenard |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1862 |
20-May-1947 |
Investigations of cathode rays |
Frederick Lindemann |
Government |
5-Apr-1886 |
3-Jul-1957 |
Churchill's scientific and war advisor |
Gabriel Lippmann |
Physicist |
16-Aug-1845 |
13-Jul-1921 |
Photographic color plate |
Alfred Lee Loomis |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1887 |
1-Aug-1975 |
Millionaire scientist |
Hendrik Lorentz |
Physicist |
18-Jul-1853 |
4-Feb-1928 |
Electrons |
Frank J. Low |
Astronomer |
23-Nov-1933 |
11-Jun-2009 |
Infrared astronomy |
Donald Lynden-Bell |
Astronomer |
5-Apr-1935 |
|
Astrophysicist at Cambridge |
Bernard Lyot |
Astronomer |
27-Feb-1897 |
2-Apr-1952 |
Sandstorms on Mars |
Ernst Mach |
Physicist |
18-Feb-1838 |
19-Feb-1916 |
Optical and sensory perceptualist |
Theodore Maiman |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1927 |
5-May-2007 |
Built the first working laser |
Étienne Louis Malus |
Physicist |
23-Jun-1775 |
23-Feb-1812 |
Polarization of light by reflection |
Michael E. Mann |
Physicist |
28-Dec-1965 |
|
Climate change scientist |
Hans Mark |
Physicist |
17-Jun-1929 |
|
US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81 |
Toshihide Maskawa |
Physicist |
7-Feb-1940 |
|
Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix |
Harrie Massey |
Astronomer |
16-May-1908 |
27-Nov-1983 |
British National Committee for Space Research |
Walter E. Massey |
Business |
5-Apr-1938 |
|
Morehouse College president, physicist |
John C. Mather |
Physicist |
7-Aug-1946 |
|
Big Bang |
Drummond Matthews |
Geologist |
5-Feb-1931 |
20-Jul-1997 |
Plate tectonics |
John William Mauchly |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1907 |
8-Jan-1980 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
James Clerk Maxwell |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1831 |
5-Nov-1879 |
Maxwell's equations |
Julius Robert Mayer |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1814 |
20-Mar-1878 |
Studied thermodynamics |
Edwin M. McMillan |
Physicist |
18-Sep-1907 |
7-Sep-1991 |
Discovered neptunium and plutonium |
Lise Meitner |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1878 |
27-Oct-1968 |
Discovered nuclear fission |
Macedonio Melloni |
Physicist |
11-Apr-1798 |
11-Aug-1854 |
Diathermancy |
Kurt Mendelssohn |
Mathematician |
7-Jan-1906 |
18-Sep-1980 |
Cryogenics and pyramids |
Paul W. Merrill |
Astronomer |
15-Aug-1887 |
19-Jul-1961 |
S-process of nucleosynthesis |
Albert A. Michelson |
Physicist |
19-Dec-1852 |
9-May-1931 |
Measured the speed of light |
Robert A. Millikan |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1868 |
19-Dec-1953 |
Determined the charge of an electron |
Robert L. Mills |
Physicist |
15-Apr-1927 |
27-Oct-1999 |
Subatomic particles |
E. Arthur Milne |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1896 |
21-Sep-1950 |
Kinematic relativity |
Hermann Minkowski |
Mathematician |
22-Jun-1864 |
12-Jan-1909 |
Minkowski space |
Rudolph Minkowski |
Astronomer |
28-May-1895 |
4-Jan-1976 |
Galaxies in collision |
Marcel Minnaert |
Astronomer |
12-Feb-1893 |
26-Oct-1970 |
Solar spectrophotometry |
Keith Moffatt |
Mathematician |
12-Apr-1935 |
|
Fluid dynamics |
Philip Moon |
Physicist |
17-May-1907 |
9-Oct-1994 |
Gamma ray fluorescence |
Charlotte E. Moore |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1898 |
3-Mar-1990 |
Technetium in the Sun |
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley |
Physicist |
23-Nov-1887 |
10-Aug-1915 |
Confirmed importance of atomic number |
Rudolf Mössbauer |
Physicist |
31-Jan-1929 |
14-Sep-2011 |
Discovered Mössbauer effect |
Nevill F. Mott |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1905 |
8-Aug-1996 |
Properties of semiconductors |
Ben R. Mottelson |
Physicist |
9-Jul-1926 |
|
Determined shapes of nuclei |
Alexander Muirhead |
Physicist |
26-May-1848 |
13-Dec-1920 |
Submarine cable telegraphy |
K. Alex Müller |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1927 |
|
High-temperature superconductivity |
Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
Yoichiro Nambu |
Physicist |
18-Jan-1921 |
|
Spontaneous broken symmetry |
Homer A. Neal |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1942 |
|
Director of the ATLAS Project |
Louis Néel |
Physicist |
22-Nov-1904 |
17-Nov-2000 |
Magnetic properties of solids |
Gerry Neugebauer |
Astronomer |
1932 |
|
Infrared astronomy |
Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
Seth Barnes Nicholson |
Astronomer |
12-Nov-1891 |
2-Jul-1963 |
Four satellites of Jupiter |
Konstantin Novoselov |
Physicist |
Aug-1974 |
|
Super-thin carbon physics |
Hans Christian Oersted |
Physicist |
14-Aug-1777 |
9-Mar-1851 |
Discovered electromagnetics |
Georg Simon Ohm |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1789 |
6-Jul-1854 |
Ohm's Law |
Mark Oliphant |
Physicist |
8-Oct-1901 |
14-Jul-2000 |
Deuterium reactions |
Frank Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
14-Aug-1912 |
3-Feb-1985 |
Founder of the Exploratorium |
Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
Douglas D. Osheroff |
Physicist |
1-Aug-1945 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
Donald E. Osterbrock |
Astronomer |
13-Jul-1924 |
11-Jan-2007 |
Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81 |
Bohdan Paczynski |
Astronomer |
8-Feb-1940 |
19-Apr-2007 |
Gravitational microlensing |
John M. Palms |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1935 |
|
President, University of South Carolina, 1991-2002 |
Pief Panofsky |
Physicist |
24-Apr-1919 |
24-Sep-2007 |
Stanford Linear Accelerator |
Eugene Parker |
Astronomer |
10-Jun-1927 |
|
Solar winds |
Wolfgang Paul |
Physicist |
10-Aug-1913 |
6-Dec-1993 |
Co-Inventor of the ion trap |
Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
P. James E. Peebles |
Astronomer |
25-Apr-1935 |
|
Galaxy formation |
Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
Jean-Charles-Athanase Peltier |
Physicist |
22-Feb-1785 |
27-Oct-1845 |
Peltier Effect |
Roger Penrose |
Mathematician |
8-Aug-1931 |
|
Theory of cosmic censorship |
Martin L. Perl |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1927 |
|
Discovered the tau lepton |
Saul Perlmutter |
Astronomer |
1959 |
|
Accelerating expansion of the universe |
Jean Perrin |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1870 |
17-Apr-1942 |
Verified atomic nature of matter |
John Pethica |
Physicist |
1953 |
|
Atomic force microscopy |
William D. Phillips |
Physicist |
5-Nov-1948 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
Auguste Piccard |
Physicist |
28-Jan-1884 |
24-Mar-1962 |
First man in the stratosphere |
Max Planck |
Physicist |
23-Apr-1858 |
4-Oct-1947 |
Originator of quantum theory |
E. Gail de Planque |
Physicist |
c. 1944 |
|
Nuclear physicist |
John S. Plaskett |
Astronomer |
17-Nov-1865 |
17-Oct-1941 |
Plaskett's star |
Gilbert Plass |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1922 |
1-Mar-2004 |
Climate change scientist |
Julius Plücker |
Mathematician |
16-Jul-1801 |
22-May-1868 |
Analytical geometry |
Johann Christian Poggendorff |
Physicist |
29-Dec-1796 |
24-Jan-1877 |
Annalen der Physik und Chemie |
H. David Politzer |
Physicist |
31-Aug-1949 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
Stanley Pons |
Physicist |
8-Feb-1943 |
|
Cold fusion crank |
Cecil Powell |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1903 |
9-Aug-1969 |
Discovered the pi-meson |
Ludwig Prandtl |
Physicist |
4-Feb-1875 |
15-Aug-1953 |
Father of Aerodynamics |
Aleksandr M. Prokhorov |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1916 |
8-Jan-2002 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
E. M. Purcell |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1912 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
James Rainwater |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1917 |
31-May-1986 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1888 |
21-Nov-1970 |
Discovered the Raman Effect |
Norman F. Ramsey |
Physicist |
27-Aug-1915 |
4-Nov-2011 |
Energy levels of atoms |
Lord Rayleigh |
Physicist |
12-Nov-1842 |
30-Jun-1919 |
Why the sky is blue |
Henri-Victor Regnault |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1810 |
19-Jan-1878 |
Properties of gases |
Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
Owen Willans Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Apr-1879 |
15-Feb-1959 |
Electron emissions of metals |
Robert C. Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1937 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
Burton Richter |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
Adam G. Riess |
Astronomer |
1969 |
|
Accelerating expansion of the universe |
Augusto Righi |
Physicist |
27-Aug-1850 |
8-Jun-1920 |
Electromagnetic waves |
Auguste-Arthur de La Rive |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1801 |
27-Nov-1873 |
Traité d'électricité théorique et appliquée |
Heinrich Rohrer |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1933 |
|
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1845 |
10-Feb-1923 |
Discovered X-Rays |
Bruno Rossi |
Astronomer |
13-Apr-1905 |
21-Nov-1993 |
Rossi curve and magnetopause |
Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
Henry Augustus Rowland |
Physicist |
27-Nov-1848 |
16-Apr-1901 |
Studied optics, magnetism, etc. |
Carlo Rubbia |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1934 |
|
Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
Ernst Ruska |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1906 |
27-May-1988 |
Inventor of the electron microscope |
Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
Johannes Rydberg |
Physicist |
8-Nov-1854 |
28-Dec-1919 |
Rydberg constant |
Andrei Sakharov |
Physicist |
21-May-1921 |
14-Dec-1989 |
Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb |
Abdus Salam |
Physicist |
29-Jan-1926 |
21-Nov-1996 |
Electroweak Theory |
Edwin E. Salpeter |
Astronomer |
3-Dec-1924 |
26-Nov-2008 |
Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography |
Allan R. Sandage |
Astronomer |
18-Jun-1926 |
13-Nov-2010 |
Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars |
Wallace Sargent |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Astrophysicist at CalTech |
Arthur L. Schawlow |
Physicist |
5-May-1921 |
28-Apr-1999 |
Laser spectroscopy |
Brian P. Schmidt |
Astronomer |
24-Feb-1967 |
|
Accelerating universe |
Walter Schottky |
Physicist |
23-Jul-1886 |
4-Mar-1976 |
Solid-state physics and electronics |
Robert Schrieffer |
Physicist |
31-May-1931 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
Erwin Schrödinger |
Physicist |
12-Aug-1887 |
4-Jan-1961 |
Schrödinger's wave equation |
Melvin Schwartz |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1932 |
28-Aug-2006 |
Researcher of neutrinos |
Karl Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
9-Oct-1873 |
11-May-1916 |
Black holes, Schwarzschild radius |
Martin Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
31-May-1912 |
10-Apr-1997 |
Structure and Evolution of the Stars |
Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
Glenn Seaborg |
Physicist |
19-Apr-1912 |
25-Feb-1999 |
Co-Discoverer of Plutonium |
Michael Seaton |
Astronomer |
16-Jun-1923 |
29-May-2007 |
Opacity Project |
Emilio Segrè |
Physicist |
30-Jan-1905 |
22-Apr-1989 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
Nathan Seiberg |
Physicist |
22-Sep-1956 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
Nikolay Semyonov |
Chemist |
15-Apr-1896 |
25-Sep-1986 |
Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics |
Maurice M. Shapiro |
Physicist |
13-Nov-1915 |
27-Feb-2008 |
Composition and origin of cosmic rays |
Tsutomu Shimomura |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1964 |
|
Helped catch Kevin Mitnick |
Iosif S. Shklovskii |
Astronomer |
1-Jul-1916 |
3-Mar-1985 |
Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula |
William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
David Shoenberg |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1911 |
10-Mar-2004 |
Physicist at Cambridge |
Clifford G. Shull |
Physicist |
23-Sep-1915 |
31-Mar-2001 |
Neutron scattering |
William Shurcliff |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1909 |
20-Jun-2006 |
Manhattan Project physicist |
Kai M. Siegbahn |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1918 |
20-Jul-2007 |
Electron spectroscopy |
Manne Siegbahn |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1886 |
26-Sep-1978 |
X-Ray spectroscopy |
Louis Slotin |
Physicist |
1-Dec-1910 |
30-May-1946 |
Died tickling the dragon's tail |
Richard E. Smalley |
Chemist |
6-Jun-1943 |
28-Oct-2005 |
Co-Discovered fullerines |
Lee Smolin |
Physicist |
1955 |
|
The Trouble with Physics |
George F. Smoot |
Physicist |
20-Feb-1945 |
|
Big bang |
Arnold Sommerfeld |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1868 |
26-Apr-1951 |
Fine-structure constant |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
Johannes Stark |
Physicist |
15-Apr-1874 |
21-Jun-1957 |
Discovered the Stark Effect |
Chauncey Starr |
Physicist |
14-Apr-1912 |
17-Apr-2007 |
Electric Power Research Institute |
Jack Steinberger |
Physicist |
25-May-1921 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
Otto Stern |
Physicist |
17-Feb-1888 |
17-Aug-1969 |
Molecular beam experiment |
Simon Stevin |
Mathematician |
1548 |
1620 |
Founder of hydrostatics |
Balfour Stewart |
Physicist |
1-Nov-1828 |
19-Dec-1887 |
Studied magnetism, radiant heat |
George Gabriel Stokes |
Physicist |
13-Aug-1819 |
1-Feb-1903 |
Fluid dynamicist, optic waves |
Horst L. Störmer |
Physicist |
6-Apr-1949 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
Bengt Strömgren |
Astronomer |
21-Jan-1908 |
4-Jul-1987 |
Hydrogen stars |
Rashid Sunyaev |
Astronomer |
1-Mar-1943 |
|
Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect |
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan |
Physicist |
31-Oct-1828 |
27-May-1914 |
Light bulb, photographic printing |
Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
Peter Guthrie Tait |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1831 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Treatise on Quaternions |
Igor Y. Tamm |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1895 |
12-Apr-1971 |
Cherenkov radiation |
James V. Taranik |
Geologist |
23-Apr-1940 |
21-Jun-2011 |
Desert Research Institute |
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. |
Astronomer |
24-Mar-1941 |
|
Co-Discovered first binary pulsar |
Richard E. Taylor |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
Edward Teller |
Physicist |
15-Jan-1908 |
9-Sep-2003 |
Father of the Hydrogen Bomb |
George Paget Thomson |
Physicist |
3-May-1892 |
10-Sep-1975 |
Diffraction of electrons |
J. J. Thomson |
Physicist |
18-Dec-1856 |
30-Aug-1940 |
Discovered the electron |
Samuel C. C. Ting |
Physicist |
27-Jan-1936 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1906 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
|
Invention of the maser and laser |
John Townsend |
Mathematician |
7-Jun-1868 |
16-Feb-1957 |
Electron's charge |
Daniel C. Tsui |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1939 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
Herbert Hall Turner |
Astronomer |
13-Aug-1861 |
20-Aug-1930 |
Stellar positions |
Merle Tuve |
Physicist |
27-Jun-1901 |
20-May-1982 |
Proximity fuse |
Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Astronomer |
5-Oct-1958 |
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Astrophysicist |
Petr Ufimtsev |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1931 |
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Physical Theory of Diffraction |
George Uhlenbeck |
Physicist |
6-Dec-1900 |
31-Oct-1988 |
Conceived idea of Quantum Spin |
Simon van der Meer |
Physicist |
24-Nov-1925 |
4-Mar-2011 |
Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum theory of paramagnetism |
Martinus J.G. Veltman |
Physicist |
27-Jun-1931 |
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Quantum physicist |
Gabriele Veneziano |
Physicist |
20-Feb-1942 |
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Father of string theory |
Alessandro Volta |
Physicist |
18-Feb-1745 |
5-Mar-1827 |
Invented electric battery |
Hermann von Helmholtz |
Physicist |
31-Aug-1821 |
8-Sep-1894 |
Law of Conservation of Energy |
Johannes Diderik van der Waals |
Physicist |
23-Nov-1837 |
9-Mar-1923 |
Investigated states of matter |
Ernest T. S. Walton |
Physicist |
6-Oct-1903 |
25-Jun-1995 |
Split the atom |
Robert Watson-Watt |
Physicist |
13-Apr-1892 |
5-Dec-1973 |
Radar |
Wilhelm Weber |
Physicist |
24-Oct-1804 |
23-Jun-1891 |
Student of electromagnetism |
Alvin M. Weinberg |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1915 |
18-Oct-2006 |
Nuclear scientist |
Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
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Electroweak Theory |
Victor Weisskopf |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1908 |
21-Apr-2002 |
Head of CERN, 1961-65 |
Charles Wheatstone |
Physicist |
6-Feb-1802 |
19-Oct-1875 |
Inventor of the telegraph |
John Archibald Wheeler |
Physicist |
9-Jul-1911 |
13-Apr-2008 |
The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission |
Carl E. Wieman |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1951 |
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Bose-Einstein Condensates |
Wilhelm Wien |
Physicist |
13-Jan-1864 |
30-Aug-1928 |
Blackbody radiation |
Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
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Deep structure of matter |
C. T. R. Wilson |
Physicist |
14-Feb-1869 |
15-Nov-1959 |
Cloud chamber |
Kenneth G. Wilson |
Physicist |
8-Jun-1936 |
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Second-order phase transitions |
Robert Woodrow Wilson |
Astronomer |
10-Jan-1936 |
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Detected primordial radiation |
Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
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String theorist at Princeton |
Peter Woit |
Physicist |
c. 1957 |
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String Theorist |
Robert W. Wood |
Physicist |
2-May-1868 |
11-Aug-1955 |
Physical Optics |
Leona Woods |
Physicist |
9-Aug-1919 |
10-Nov-1986 |
Physicist at University of Chicago |
Basilis Xanthopoulos |
Physicist |
1951 |
27-Nov-1990 |
Gravitational physics |
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1921 |
30-May-2011 |
Developed radioimmunoassay technique |
Chen Ning Yang |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1922 |
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Particle physicist |
Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky |
Physicist |
24-May-1844 |
22-Jan-1902 |
Yarkovsky effect |
Thomas Young |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1773 |
10-May-1829 |
Wave Theory of Light |
Hideki Yukawa |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1907 |
8-Sep-1981 |
Predicted existence of mesons |
Pieter Zeeman |
Physicist |
25-May-1865 |
9-Oct-1943 |
Discovered Zeeman Effect |
Frits Zernike |
Physicist |
16-Jul-1888 |
10-Mar-1966 |
Phase-contrast microscope |
Fritz Zwicky |
Astronomer |
14-Feb-1898 |
8-Feb-1974 |
Astrophysicist at CalTech |