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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#5551

Vladimir Krivchenkov

#101490

Overall Influence

1917 - 1997 (80 years)

Vladimir Dmitrievich Krivchenkov was a Russian physicist, author and the creator of the "Deterministic concept of Quantum Mechanics". Krivchenkov also worked as a professor at the Physics Department of the Moscow State University.

#5552

Ho

#134427

Overall Influence

#5553

Antonello Pietrangelo

#134440

Overall Influence

#5554

Karl Wolfgang Boer

#54613

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Karl Wolfgang Böer was a solar energy pioneer and expert in the field of semiconductor physics. Biography Born in Berlin, Germany, he earned a Ph.D. from Humboldt University, Berlin . Böer founded Physica Status Solidi and subsequently published its first issue in July 1961. Physica Status Solidi is a family of international peer-reviewed, scientific journals, publishing research on all aspects of solid state physics, and material science. It is owned and published by Wiley-VCH. Böer served as editor.

#5555

Ravi S. Menon

#69728

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Ravi Shankar Menon is a Canadian-American biophysicist. He is a former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the University of Western Ontario and director of the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping at the Robarts Research Institute.

#5556

Donald L. D. Caspar

#134476

Overall Influence

#5557

Vladimir Barmin

Vladimir Barmin

#23729

Overall Influence

1909 - 1993 (84 years)

Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program who is remembered for being the designer of the first Soviet rocket launch complexes in the Soviet space program. An asteroid, 22254 Vladbarmin, was named in his honor.

#5558

Adi Bulsara

#65405

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ardeshir "Adi" Ratan Bulsara is a scientist in the area nonlinear dynamics. The 2007 International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics , held in Kauai, Hawaii, was a festschrift held in his honor of his 55th birthday.

#5559

Michael McElroy

#63239

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Michael Brendan McElroy is the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His research initially revolved around the origin and evolution of the planets to an emphasis on effects of human activity on the global environment of the Earth, especially climate change.

#5560

Wolfgang Rathmann

#134510

Overall Influence

#5561

A. Bruce Langdon

#134543

Overall Influence

#5562

W. M. Jr. Stacey

#134566

Overall Influence

#5563

Clifford Cunningham

#112888

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Clifford J. Cunningham is a Canadian-Scottish professional astronomer and author of numerous books on asteroids. Biography He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo; upon enrollment, at age 15, he was the youngest student ever to attend UW. In 1991 he earned his BA in Classical Studies. For his book Introduction to Asteroids and development of The Minor Planet Index to Scientific Papers , an asteroid was named in his honour. Asteroid 4276 was named Clifford. His work after graduation included astronomical observations at Lowell Observatory; studies in the micr...

#5564

Friedrich W. Hehl

#134587

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

#5565

Wendy Laurel Freedman

#134603

Overall Influence

#5566

Peter Fellgett

#42970

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Peter Berners Fellgett FRS, FIEE was a British physicist. He was the professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading . Fellgett's advantage He is best known for Fellgett's advantage: the improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio by using multiplex measurements, i.e. simultaneous measurement at different wavelengths, such as Fourier transform spectroscopy.

#5567

James Skea

#41673

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

James "Jim" Ferguson Skea CBE FRSE is a British academic. He is currently Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its seventh assessment cycle, and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London. Before being elected as Chair, Skea was Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC. He was a founding member of the UK Government's Committee on Climate Change and currently chairs Scotland's Just Transition Commission. He was a co-author of the IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C. In July 2023, Skea was elected as Chair the IPCC.

#5568

Benny Lautrup

#90093

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Benny Lautrup is a Danish professor in theoretical physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. During his career he has worked at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics , Brookhaven National Laboratory , CERN , and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques . He is known for his part in the Nakanishi-Lautrup formalism, a concept in relativistic quantum field theory. He has published the books Neural Networks – Computers with Intuition with Søren Brunak , and Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the macroscopic World in 2005. A second edition of this book was published in 2011.

#5569

Donald H. Weingarten

#111095

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Donald Henry Weingarten is a computational physicist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received an undergraduate degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1970 from Columbia University, New York. From 1969 to 1976 he held research positions at Fermilab , the University of Copenhagen, the University of Paris, and the University of Rochester. From 1976 to 1983 he was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor at Indiana University. In 1983 he took his present position in the Research Division of IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York.

#5570

David H. Sharp

#134666

Overall Influence

#5571

Ronald Collé

#50230

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Ronald Collé is a specialist in nuclear and radiochemistry, radionuclidic metrology, and the development of standards. He has worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1976 to 2003 and from 2005 to present, and currently serves as a research chemist in the Radioactivity Group of the NIST Physics Laboratory .

#5572

Norbert Koch

#134719

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

#5573

George C. Baldwin

#54326

Overall Influence

1917 - 2010 (93 years)

George Curriden Baldwin was an American theoretical and experimental physicist. He was a professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a scientist working at the General Electric Research Laboratory and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He wrote a book on Nonlinear Optics and authored or co-authored over 130 technical papers.

#5574

Electron Kebebew

#90517

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Electron Kebebew is an American surgeon, educator, and scientist. Kebebew is currently the Harry A. Oberhelman Jr. and Mark L. Welton Professor and Chief of General Surgery at Stanford University. Early life and education Electron Kebebew was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on February 26, 1968. Kebebew graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991 with a B.S. in chemical engineering. In 1995, he graduated with a medicine degree from the University of California, San Francisco where he also went on to do his general surgery residency and postdoctoral fellowship.

#5575

Arkady V. Krasheninnikov

#134748

Overall Influence

#5576

Leeor Kronik

#134750

Overall Influence

#5577

Octavio Novaro

#63382

Overall Influence

1939 - 2018 (79 years)

Octavio Augusto Novaro Peñalosa was a prominent theoretical physicist specialized in theoretical catalysis, physical chemistry, biophysics and geophysics. He received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1983 and became the first Mexican researcher to receive the UNESCO Science Prize in 1993. Since 1995 he was also one of the forty lifetime members of The National College.

#5578

M. Lisa Manning

#98468

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Mary Lisa Manning is an American physicist and the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, United States. Manning's research focuses on the behavior of glassy materials, using simulations and theory to model the emergent properties of biological tissues.

#5579

Wai-Yim Ching

#94599

Overall Influence

Wai-Yim Ching is a Curator’s Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is also a group leader at the Electronic Structure Group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and an invited speaker of the 57th Midwest Solid State Conference.

#5580

Raj Kumar Pathria

#107758

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Raj Kumar Pathria is a theoretical physicist, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Waterloo, and an Urdu poet. Pathria is known for his work on superfluidity in liquid helium, Lorentz transformation of thermodynamic quantities, an exact evaluation of lattice sums and finite-size effects in phase transitions.

#5581

Henri Daniel Rathgeber

#92241

Overall Influence

1908 - 1995 (87 years)

Henri Daniel Rathgeber was an Australian physicist who studied cosmic rays but considered his most important contribution to be an economic theory that explain how entropy causes unemployment. Education Rathgeber was born in Paris, Montmartre on 11 June 1908. His father, Daniel Rathgeber was German, working for Robert Bosch GmbH, and his mother Hortense Desmousseaux was French. Just before the outbreak of first world war, he moved to Bad Dürkheim with his French mother, while his father served in the German army. From 1919-1924 he lived in Geneva, Switzerland and went to school at the College.

#5582

Gu Binglin

#76676

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Gu Binglin is a Chinese physicist and material scientist. He is the 17th president of Tsinghua University and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. External links Personal home page on www.TsingHua.edu.cn

#5583

Otto Hittmair

#68635

Overall Influence

1924 - 2003 (79 years)

Otto Hittmair was an Austrian theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, superconductivity and unified field theory. From 1987 to 1991 he was President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

#5584

Michael Bonitz

#134854

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#5585

Leonard L. Gunderson

#134875

Overall Influence

#5586

Stephen Salter

#39987

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Stephen Hugh Salter, is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Edinburgh and inventor of the eponymous Salter duck wave energy device. Salter is also a proponent of geoengineering and is responsible for creating the concept of the mechanical enhancement of clouds to achieve cloud reflectivity enhancement.

#5587

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar

#90977

Overall Influence

1904 - 1995 (91 years)

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar was an Indian physicist who made contributions in several branches of theoretical physics, notably statistical mechanics and ionospheric physics. He played a key role in setting up the Department of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Delhi, which he headed for around nine years, and also was pro-vice-chancellor of the university. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and was general secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

#5588

Alessandro Melchiorri

#134888

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

#5589

Cecilia Clementi

#80591

Overall Influence

Cecilia Clementi is an Italian-American scientist who specialises in the simulation of biomolecules. She is a Professor of Computational Biophysics at the Free University of Berlin. She was previously a Professor of Chemistry at the Rice University and co-director of the National Science Foundation Molecular Sciences Software Institute. From 2017 to 2019 she held an Einstein Foundation fellowship.

#5590

Péter Salamon

#134934

Overall Influence

#5591

Nobuya Inagaki

#134939

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#5592

Richard Kerner

#105849

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Richard Kerner is a French theoretical physicist andProfessor Emeritus of Pierre and Marie Curie University whose research extends into gravitation, cosmology, field theory, solid-state physics, noncommutative geometry, quantum mechanics and mathematical and theoretical biology.

#5593

Shrinivas Krishnarao Kulkarni

#134987

Overall Influence

#5594

Euan G. Nisbet

#135001

Overall Influence

#5595

Andreas Savin

#135002

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#5596

Dale A. Frail

#135009

Overall Influence

#5597

Nathan Berkovits

#135012

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

#5598

Bernd Berg

#107209

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Bernd A. Berg is the emeritus Dirac Professor of Physics at the Florida State University. His multicanonical approach to computer simulations is popular in structural biology. He is also author of a computational physics textbook, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations and Their Statistical Analysis. In 2008, he was chosen to receive Germany's Humboldt Research Award, given to outstanding academics who are at the peak of their careers. Among other honors, Berg was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2004 and was awarded the Leibniz Professorship of Leipzig University in 2005.

#5599

Adilson E. Motter

Adilson E. Motter

#63436

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Adilson E. Motter , is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics at Northwestern University, where he has helped develop the concept of synthetic rescue in network biology as well as methods to control the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks. In joint work with Takashi Nishikawa, he discovered the phenomenon of converse symmetry breaking . Motter's research is focused on complex systems and nonlinear phenomena, primarily involving complex networks, systems biology, chaos and statistical physics.

#5600

Dean Lee

#103500

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Dean Lee is an American nuclear theorist, researcher and educator. He is a professor of physics at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University and department head of Theoretical Nuclear Science at FRIB.

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