New Additions

• Omar Abdel-Rahman The Blind Sheikh
• Hannes Alfvén Plasma physicist
• Luis W. Alvarez Particle accelerator pioneer
• Philip W. Anderson Solid state physics
• Tim Babcock Governor of Montana 1962-69
• John Bardeen Co-Inventor of the transistor
• Nikolay G. Basov Invention of the maser and laser
• Aage N. Bohr Determined shapes of nuclei
• Walter H. Brattain Co-Inventor of the transistor
• Owen Chamberlain Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
• Georges Charpak Subatomic particle detectors
• Helen Chenoweth-Hage Congresswoman, Idaho 1st 1995-2001
• Pavel A. Cherenkov Cherenkov radiation
• Leon N. Cooper BCS Theory of Superconductivity
• James W. Cronin Time not necessarily reversible
• Leo Esaki Electron tunneling
• Val Fitch Time not necessarily reversible
• Ilya M. Frank Cherenkov radiation
• Charles Fried US Solicitor General, 1985-89
• Gerald Gardner Founder of Modern Wicca
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Molecular structure of polymers
• Ivar Giaever Tunneling in superconductors
• Donald A. Glaser Inventor of the cloud chamber
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer Shell nuclear model
• Antony Hewish First to discover a pulsar
• J. Hans D. Jensen Shell nuclear model
• Brian D. Josephson Discovered the Josephson Effect
• Pyotr Kapitsa Discovered superfluidity
• Alfred Kastler Hertzian resonances
• Klaus von Klitzing Quantization of resistance
• Polykarp Kusch Magnetic moment of the electron
• Lev Landau Superfluidity of helium
• Tsung-Dao Lee Investigated parity law
• Rudolf Mössbauer Discovered Mössbauer effect
• Nevill F. Mott Properties of semiconductors
• Ben R. Mottelson Determined shapes of nuclei
• Louis Néel Magnetic properties of solids
• Arno Penzias Detected primordial radiation
• Aleksandr M. Prokhorov Invention of the maser and laser
• E. M. Purcell Nuclear magnetic resonance
• James Rainwater Determined shapes of nuclei
• Burton Richter Co-Discoverer of J/psi particle
• Martin Ryle Radio astronomer
• Robert Schrieffer BCS Theory of Superconductivity
• Julian Schwinger Quantum electrodynamics
• Emilio Segrè Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
• Alan Shepard First American in space
• Willie Shoemaker Greatest 20th century jockey
• Igor Y. Tamm Cherenkov radiation
• Samuel C. C. Ting Co-Discoverer of J/psi particle
• Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Quantum electrodynamics
• Charles H. Townes Invention of the maser and laser
• John H. van Vleck Quantum mechanics of magnetism
• Ernest T. S. Walton Split the atom
• Eugene Wigner Law of conservation of parity
• Kenneth G. Wilson Second-order phase transitions
• Robert Woodrow Wilson Detected primordial radiation
• Frits Zernike Phase-contrast microscope

Posted: July 23, 2005