| 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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
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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 |
|
Astrophysicist |
| Petr Ufimtsev |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1931 |
|
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 |
|
Quantum physicist |
| Gabriele Veneziano |
Physicist |
20-Feb-1942 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Second-order phase transitions |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson |
Astronomer |
10-Jan-1936 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
| Peter Woit |
Physicist |
c. 1957 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
