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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#7001

Éric Aubourg

#83963

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Éric Aubourg is a French astrophysicist at the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique and a member of the APC/Université Paris-Diderot Cosmology Group. Life Éric Aubourg has published several contributions to Egyptology, including a dating of the Dendera zodiac, whose age was a subject of 19th-century archaeological debate.

#7002

Stefano Casertano

#155287

Overall Influence

#7003

Martin Kröger

#155292

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

#7004

Philip Schuster

#131035

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Philip C. Schuster is a theoretical elementary particle physicist and chair of the Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Biography Schuster "knew from a young age he wanted to go into particle physics." He earned his bachelor's degree in physics from MIT in 2003 followed by master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard, with his thesis Uncovering the New Standard Model at the LHC advised by Nima Arkani-Hamed. He held positions at SLAC and the Institute for Advanced Study, as well as a junior faculty position at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretic...

#7005

Peter H. Weisz

#155323

Overall Influence

#7006

K. S. Lackner

#155327

Overall Influence

#7007

Richard J. Groebner

#155369

Overall Influence

#7008

Airlie J. Mccoy

#155387

Overall Influence

#7009

Michael L. Kaiser

#155425

Overall Influence

#7010

Hitoshi Tabata

#155435

Overall Influence

#7011

Kam-yin Lau

#155436

Overall Influence

#7012

Paolo Scardi

#155461

Overall Influence

#7013

Norman Newark Herron

#155491

Overall Influence

#7014

Marek Z. Zgierski

#155502

Overall Influence

#7015

Scott Thomas

#155524

Overall Influence

#7016

Wim Ubachs

#155526

Overall Influence

Wim Ubachs is a Dutch physicist, currently at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an Elected Fellow of American Physical Society.

#7017

Colin C. F. Blake

#155528

Overall Influence

#7018

Emmanuel Lellouch

#155554

Overall Influence

#7019

Herbert Neuberger

#155600

Overall Influence

#7020

Michael Spannowsky

#155610

Overall Influence

#7021

Aurélien Marabelle

#155649

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

#7022

Fred Taylor

#116430

Overall Influence

1944 - 2021 (77 years)

Fredric William Taylor was a British physicist and academic. He was Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of Oxford, where he lived until his death. Early life and education Taylor was born 24 September 1944 in Amble, Northumberland, England. His father, William, was a joiner who had been wounded in World War II, and his mother, Ena, was a teacher. In 1949, the family moved to Howick, Northumberland. He was educated at The Duke's School, then an all-boys school in Alnwick. He studied physics at the University of Liverpool, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Science degree.

#7023

G. Mark Voit

#149391

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

G. Mark Voit is an American physicist and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. His most cited solely-authored paper is "Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Clusters of Galaxies", in Reviews of Modern Physics, at Michigan State University. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research involves theoretical investigations of clusters of galaxies, galaxy evolution, and the role of supermassive black holes in galaxy evolution. Voit is an expert in the physics of astrophysical gas and dust.

#7024

Philippe Réfrégier

#155774

Overall Influence

#7025

Michael R. Shurin

#155796

Overall Influence

#7026

Jean Arcady Meyer

#155816

Overall Influence

#7027

Andrei Mironov

#155831

Overall Influence

#7028

Ernest Gordon Cox

#61981

Overall Influence

1906 - 1996 (90 years)

Sir Gordon Cox TD KBE FRS was a British crystallographer and structural chemist. He was the father of the British geologist Keith Gordon Cox. Early life and education Cox was born in Twerton, Somerset on 24 April 1906. He was the son of Ernest Henry Cox , a market gardener, and his wife Rosina Ring. He was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School and then read physics at the University of Bristol, graduating in 1927. He was awarded the degree of DSc by Bristol in 1936.

#7029

Ulrich P. Strauss

#120375

Overall Influence

1920 - 2015 (95 years)

Ulrich Paul Strauss was an American chemist. He was professor emeritus at Rutgers University. Strauss received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971. Biography Strauss was born in Frankfurt. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He finished his postdoc at Yale University before embarking a teaching a career at Rutgers University, where he taught from 1948 to 1990. Strauss' specialty was polyelectrolytes and he created prefabricated soap micelles known as "polysoaps."

#7030

Douglas C. Poland

#155881

Overall Influence

#7031

Klaus Blaum

#155902

Overall Influence

#7032

Joseph Dzhun

#103415

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Joseph Dzhun Volodymyrovych is a Ukrainian scientist, astronomer, and academician who was born in Cherniakhiv, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Polytechnical Institute. He is a scientist-astronomer, mathematician, representative of an academician E.P. Fedorov's scientific school, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, professor of the mathematical modelling department of the cybernetics faculty of International University of Economics and Humanities , full member of the International Pedagogical Academy , and European Safety Association .

#7033

Ignasi Ribas

#155928

Overall Influence

#7034

Theodore C. Harman

#155947

Overall Influence

#7035

Wolfgang Wagner

#155958

Overall Influence

#7036

Richard B. Gallagher

#61375

Overall Influence

Richard Barclay Gallagher is a Scottish immunologist, science editor, and academic publisher. He is the president and editor-in-chief of Annual Reviews. He graduated with a doctoral degree from the University of Glasgow and was a researcher at Trinity College Dublin before he began working in academic publishing in 1989, holding positions with Elsevier and the journals Science and Nature. In the 2000s, he was the editor of the magazine The Scientist. In 2015, he became president and editor-in-chief of Annual Reviews, where he oversaw the expansion into new journal titles, launched its first on...

#7037

William Walter Heidbrink

#155984

Overall Influence

#7038

Ernest J. Sternglass

#63617

Overall Influence

1923 - 2015 (92 years)

Ernest Joachim Sternglass was a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He is an American physicist and author, best known for his controversial research on the health risks of low-level radiation from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and from nuclear power plants.

#7039

Bruno Georges Pollet

Bruno Georges Pollet

#69635

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Bruno Georges Pollet BSc MSc PhD FRSC , is a French chemist, electrochemist and electrochemical engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, professor of chemistry, director of the Green Hydrogen Lab, co-director of the Institute for Hydrogen Research at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Canada. He has worked on Hydrogen Energy in the UK, Japan, South Africa, Norway and Canada, and has both industrial and academic experience. He is regarded as one of the most prominent Hydrogen experts in the world.

#7040

Klaus Ensslin

#156064

Overall Influence

#7041

Anthony David Hawkins

#156076

Overall Influence

#7042

Gregory. J. Salamo

#156103

Overall Influence

#7043

John E. Bjorkholm

#156117

Overall Influence

#7044

Franz Daniel Kahn

#113781

Overall Influence

1926 - 1998 (72 years)

Franz Daniel Kahn was a mathematician and astrophysicist at the University of Manchester. He was Professor of Astronomy from 1966 to 1993, then Emeritus thereafter in the School of Physics and Astronomy.

#7045

Alexander Strang Thom

#156198

Overall Influence

#7046

Jan Wernerman

#156261

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

#7047

Patricia Whitelock

#148609

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Professor Patricia Ann Whitelock is a British-born astrophysicist with dual British-South African nationality. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa ; a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa; and a member of the South African Institute of Physics , .

#7048

Willem Vos

#150023

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Willem Lambertus Vos is a Dutch scientist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of Twente and former group leader at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics "AMOLF" In 2004, with his group members, Peter Lodahl et al. they succeeded in controlling the pace of light emission, varying from a light drizzle to a rainstorm. In the process, the team has verified a 1987 prediction of American physicist Eli Yablonovitch that ignited a worldwide rush to build tiny "chips" that control light beams. The achievement of Dr. Lodahl and a team of physicists and chemists was reported on in Nature .

#7049

Anders Karlsson

#93651

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Anders Karlsson is a Swedish physicist who is working in scientific publishing. Karlsson graduated 1987 from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm with a Master of Science degree in engineering physics. He received a Ph.D. in 1992 with a thesis on quantum noise in semiconductor lasers and laser amplifiers. In 2001 he became professor of quantum photonics at the Royal Institute of Technology, as part of a position as a special research fellow with the Swedish Research Council from 2001 to 2007. His research areas were quantum photonics and quantum information. In 2004, the multinational research project Karlsson coordinated, IST-QuComm, was awarded the Descartes Prize.

#7050

Ian Fairlie

#53230

Overall Influence

Ian Fairlie is a U.K. based Canadian consultant on radiation in the environment and former member of the three person secretariat to Britain’s Committee Examining the Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters . He is a radiation biologist who has focused on the radiological hazards of nuclear fuel and he has studied radioactive releases at nuclear facilities since before the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

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