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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#8001

Winston Wole Soboyejo

Winston Wole Soboyejo

#26241

Overall Influence

Winston Wole Soboyejo commonly known as "Wole" is an American Scientist of Yoruba Nigerian parentage. He is a materials scientist whose research focuses on biomaterials and the use of nanoparticles for the detection and treatment of disease, the mechanical properties of materials, and the use of materials science to promote global development. He was appointed President at SUNY Polytechnic Institute and began his service on October 2, 2023.

#8002

Eva-Maria Graefe

#58852

Overall Influence

Eva-Maria Graefe is a German mathematical physicist who works as a reader in mathematical physics at Imperial College London and as a University Research Fellow of the Royal Society. Her research involves ultracold atoms and non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, an area she describes informally as the study of "holes in quantum systems" by which dissipation degrades their quantum behavior.

#8003

Hannah Elfner

#70018

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Hannah Elfner is a German physicist who is Head of Simulations at the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and Professor of Physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She was named the 2021 Alfons and Gertrud Kassel Foundation Scientist of the Year.

#8004

Ben Nijboer

#120166

Overall Influence

1915 - 1999 (84 years)

Bernard Roelof Andries Nijboer was a Dutch physicist and professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Utrecht University from 1956 until 1984. He was mainly active in the fields of optics and solid-state physics.

#8005

Jackie Faherty

#148977

Overall Influence

Jacqueline K. Faherty is an American astronomer specializing in infrared astronomy and the observation of nearby stars and brown dwarfs, and known for her public outreach in space science. She works at the American Museum of Natural History as a senior scientist in the museum's Department of Astrophysics and a senior education manager in the Department of Education.

#8006

Maurice W. Long

Maurice W. Long

#73304

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Maurice W. Long was an American electrical engineer, radar engineer, and physicist. He served as director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1968 to 1975. He worked as a part-time radar consultant, principal research engineer at GTRI and adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University.

#8007

Na Ji

#127520

Overall Influence

Na Ji is an American biophysicist and the Luis Alvarez Memorial Chair in Experimental Physics at UC Berkeley, where her work focuses on optical microscopy techniques for in vivo imaging and biophotonics. She has a joint appointment as faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

#8008

Adriano Fontana

#169693

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

#8009

Kees van Overveld

#124055

Overall Influence

1957 - 2014 (57 years)

C.W.A.M. van Overveld was a Dutch physicist and lecturer in design methodology. He worked at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Kees van Overveld studied physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology until 1981. Four years later he earned a PhD in technical sciences in 1985 for his thesis “On an inversion procedure for nuclear transition densities”. During this period, from 1981 to 1985, he was a research assistant at FOM-service of the experimental nuclear physics group of T.H. Eindhoven. Later he worked as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science of the TUe on computer graphics and simulation.

#8010

John Iball

#144244

Overall Influence

1907 - 1993 (86 years)

John Iball FRSE FIP was a British physicist and crystallographer. He made major advances in cancer research. He gives his name to the Iball Index: the relative potency of carcinogenic compounds. Life He was born in Hasland near Chesterfield in Derbyshire on 1 February 1907. He attended Alun County School in Mold, Flintshire from 1919 to 1925. He then went to study Mathematics and Physics at the College of North Wales in Bangor. He graduated with a first class degree in Physics in 1928. In 1929 he received a Diploma in Education then won a research scholarship which resulted in a further degree and doctorate from the University of Wales in 1932.

#8011

George M. Fuller

#111794

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

George Michael Fuller is an American theoretical physicist, known for his research on nuclear astrophysics involving weak interactions, neutrino flavor-mixing, and quark matter, as well as the hypothetical nuclear matter.

#8012

John P. Barber

#94035

Overall Influence

John P. Barber is a pioneer of railgun technology. Dr. Barber received the Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from Australian National University in 1972. He joined the University of Dayton Research Institute in 1974 and directed the Impact Physics Group there until 1979 when he resigned to go into business. Dr. Barber co-founded IAP Research in 1981 and has served as President since.

#8013

Deblina Sarkar

#96327

Overall Influence

Deblina Sarkar is an electrical engineer, and inventor. She is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AT&T Career Development Chair Professor of the MIT Media Lab. Sarkar has been internationally recognized for her invention of an ultra thin quantum mechanical transistor that can be scaled to nano-sizes and used in nanoelectronic biosensors. As the principal investigator of the Nano Cybernetic Biotrek Lab at MIT, Sarkar leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers towards bridging the gap between nanotechnology and synthetic biology to build new nano-devi...

#8014

Jochen Küpper

#122276

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jochen Küpper FRSC is a German chemist and physicist, group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, and Professor of Physics and Professor by courtesy of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

#8015

Jacques Blamont

Jacques Blamont

#68739

Overall Influence

1926 - 2020 (94 years)

Jacques Émile Blamont was a French astrophysicist, author and the founder scientific and technical director of National Centre for Space Studies , known to have contributed to the development of Veronique, the first rocket launched by France in 1957. He was an elected fellow of the French Academy of Technologies and a professor emeritus of the Pierre and Marie Curie University .

#8016

Louise Edwards

#149478

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Louise Olivia Violet Edwards is a Canadian astronomer and associate professor of physics at California Polytechnic State University , and is one of the first Black Canadians to receive a PhD in astronomy. In 2002, she was pictured on a Canadian stamp.

#8017

George O. Zimmerman

#109452

Overall Influence

1935 - 2019 (84 years)

George Ogurek Zimmerman, was a Polish-born American scientist, researcher, inventor, professor of physics and physics department chair at Boston University. Zimmerman achieved his PhD in solid state physics in 1963 at Yale University and came to Boston University in the fall of 1963.

#8018

Nynke Dekker

#126687

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Nynke Hester Dekker is a Dutch biophysicist who is Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology. Dekker studies individual DNA and RNA molecules and how they interact with proteins in bacteria, viruses and eukaryotes. She described how virus proteins build errors into the virus RNA of viruses. In 2020, she was awarded the Spinoza Prize.

#8019

Jan Łopuszański

#84260

Overall Influence

1923 - 2008 (85 years)

Jan Łopuszański was a Polish theoretical physicist and author of several textbooks about classical, statistical and quantum physics. In the field of quantum field theory, he is most famous as co-author of the Haag–Lopuszanski–Sohnius theorem concerning the possibility of supersymmetry in renormalizable QFT's.

#8020

Hope Ishii

#68538

Overall Influence

Hope A. Ishii is an American scientist and the Director of the Advanced Electron Microscopy Center at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawaiʻi. Her work focuses on analysis and characterization of small solar system objects such as comet and asteroid dust, primarily by means of electron microscopy and x-ray spectroscopy, sometime from samples collected in space using aerogel. She is a research faculty member at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and an affiliate researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

#8021

Ben Moore

#132320

Overall Influence

Ben Moore is an English professor of astrophysics, author, musician, and director of the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Zürich. His research is focussed on cosmology, gravity, astroparticle physics, and planet formation. He has authored in excess of 200 scientific papers on the origin of planets and galaxies, as well as dark matter and dark energy. In his research, he simulates the universe using custom-built supercomputers.

#8022

Philippe Bouyer

Philippe Bouyer

#115823

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Philippe Bouyer is a French physicist, researcher and director at the Laboratory for Photonics, Numerics and Nano-sciences in Talence, France. He is also co-founder of Muquans, a company specialized in quantum technology-based gravity meters. He is deputy director of the Institut d'Optique Graduate School and Editor in Chief of the new AVS Quantum Science journal from AIP Publishing and the American Vacuum Society.

#8023

Eivind Hiis Hauge

#95909

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Eivind Hiis Hauge is a Norwegian physicist. Early life and career Hauge was born in Bergen, but took his secondary education at Oslo Cathedral School. He then took the siv.ing. degree, graduating from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1962 and took the dr.techn. degree in 1965. He spent the years 1965 to 1967 as a research fellow at Rockefeller University. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1976.

#8024

Fikri Alican

#54615

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Fikri Alican was a Turkish scientist and physician with various contributions to medical science, ranging from organ transplantation to physiology. Early life and career Alican was born in Adapazarı, a city in northwestern Turkey, 150 km east of Istanbul. He left his hometown after middle school, attending high school and college in Istanbul, where he graduated from Robert College with a B.S. and from Istanbul University with an M.D. . He did his residency at the Istanbul University Medical Center's Clinic of Treatment and Exploratory Surgery, also known as Surgical Clinic #4, headed by Şinasi Hakkı Erel.

#8025

Karina Morgenstern

#113041

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Karina Morgenstern is a German physicist. She is a professor of physical chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum. Education She studied physics and computer science at the universities of Bonn and Knoxville. She was awarded a diploma in physics in 1993 , and a diploma in computer science in 1994 . She then obtained a doctoral degree in surface physics in 1996 and completed her habilitation in experimental physics in 2002 .

#8026

Stephen D. Levene

#119803

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Stephen Levene is an American biophysicist and professor of bioengineering, molecular biology, and physics at the University of Texas at Dallas. Early life and education Levene was born in New York City and attended Horace Mann School and Andrew Hill High School in San Jose, California. He received his A.B. in Chemistry from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University. His doctoral work demonstrated and quantified the phenomenon of sequence-directed bending in DNA due to adenine-thymine tracts, and pioneered the use of Monte Carlo simulation to compute cyclization probabilities of DNA molecules having arbitrary preferred geometries.

#8027

Sarah L. Keller

#129092

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Sarah L. Keller is an American biophysicist, studying problems at the intersection between biology and chemistry. She investigates self-assembling soft matter systems. Her current main research focus is understanding how simple lipid mixtures within bilayer membranes give rise to membrane's complex phase behavior.

#8028

Gary Hug

#169153

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Gary Hug is an American amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets, who, along with Graham E. Bell, operates the Farpoint Observatory and Sandlot Observatory in Kansas, United States.

#8029

Walter de Heer

#146095

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Walter Alexander "Walt" de Heer is a Dutch physicist and nanoscience researcher known for discoveries in the electronic shell structure of metal clusters, magnetism in transition metal clusters, field emission and ballistic conduction in carbon nanotubes, and graphene-based electronics.

#8030

Azzedine Bousseksou

#91226

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Azzedine Bousseksou is a Franco Algerian physical chemist. Career Azzedine Bousseksou attended high school in Algiers, where he received a diploma in Material Physics from the Université de Bab Ezzouar. He also received a DEA in Materials Science from the University of Nantes in 1988 and then obtained a PhD in Materials Science from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in 1992, completing his doctoral internship at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz .

#8031

Emanuel Tutuc

#169964

Overall Influence

Emanuel Tutuc is an American physicist and professor at University of Texas at Austin and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

#8032

Ola Hunderi

#169074

Overall Influence

1939 - 2016 (77 years)

Ola David Raa Hunderi was a Norwegian physicist. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1970, and was appointed as professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1981. From 1987 to 1993 he was the research director at SINTEF.

#8033

Alessandro De Angelis

#163086

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Alessandro De Angelis is an Italian and Argentine physicist and astrophysicist. A Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Padova and Professor Catedratico of Astroparticle Physics at IST Lisboa, he is mostly known for his role in the proposal, construction and data analysis of new telescopes for gamma-ray astrophysics. He is a member of Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare , Istituto nazionale di astrofisica , Italian Physical Society , International Astronomical Union , Gruppo2003.

#8034

David W. Piston

#99576

Overall Influence

David W. Piston is an American physicist. He is the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor and Head of Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine. Education Piston completed a bachelor of arts in physics at Grinnell College in 1984. In 1986, he completed a master of science in physics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He earned his doctor of philosophy in physics from the same institution in 1989. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Watt W. Webb at Cornell University from 1989 to 1992.

#8035

Canan Dağdeviren

Canan Dağdeviren

#31066

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Canan Dağdeviren is a Turkish academic, physicist, material scientist, and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. Dagdeviren is the first Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to become a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create...

#8036

Willibald Peter Prasthofer

#137267

Overall Influence

1917 - 1993 (76 years)

Willibald Peter Prasthofer was an Austrian rocket scientist and educator. With the anschluss of Austria with Germany prior to the second world war, he was conscripted to Peenemünde to work on the fledgeling rocket program headed by Wernher von Braun.

#8037

Lars Samuelson

#137774

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Lars Ivar Samuelson is a Swedish physicist and professor in nanotechnology and semiconductor electronics at Lund University. Biography In 1977 Lars Samuelson received his PhD in physics at Lund University. Afterwards he went for post-doc at the IBM Research Center in San Jose, California between 1978 and 1979, researching display technology and band structure calculations.

#8038

Jason Wright

#170088

Overall Influence

Jason Thomas Wright is an American astronomer. He is a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Eberly College of Science at Pennsylvania State University, where he also serves as director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center. He is known for his research on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, particularly regarding the search for technosignatures.

#8039

Bridget Shield

#57897

Overall Influence

Bridget Mary Shield is a leading researcher on acoustics. Shield graduated from Birmingham University with a BSc in Pure Mathematics in 1968, an MSc in mathematics in 1969 and a PhD in Engineering Production in 1979.

#8040

Ambarish Ghosh

#147318

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Ambarish Ghosh is an Indian scientist, a faculty member at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is also an associate faculty at the Department of Physics. He is known for his work on nanorobots, active matter physics, plasmonics, metamaterials and electron bubbles in liquid helium.

#8041

Pavel Belov

#70754

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Pavel Aleksandrovich Belov , is a Russian physicist, head of The International Research Centre for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials . Education After finishing Saint Petersburg Lyceum 30, Pavel Belov graduated with honors from the ITMO University in 2000. He defended his PhD thesis twice: from ITMO University in Russia in 2003 with the thesis "Analytical modeling of electromagnetic crystals", and then in Finland in 2006 at the Helsinki University of Technology with the thesis "Analytical modeling of metamaterials and new principle of sub-wavelength imaging". In November 2010 he received doctor...

#8042

Alfons van Blaaderen

#159783

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Alfons van Blaaderen is a Dutch physicist. He is a professor at Utrecht University and works in the field of soft matter. Career Van Blaaderen was born on 27 October 1963 in Naarden. He attended the Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs and subsequently studied physics and chemistry at Utrecht University. In 1992 he obtained his PhD at Utrecht University under professor A. Vrij with a dissertation titled Colloidal dispersions of silica spheres: formation mechanism, structure and dynamics. In 1999 he was named professor of experimental physics of condensed matter.

#8043

Stephen Arnold

#112295

Overall Influence

Stephen Arnold is a Professor of Physics and Chemical Engineering and the Thomas Potts Professor of Physics at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is also an Othmer-Potts Senior Faculty Fellow. The focus of Arnold's research is developing ultra-sensitive bio-sensors and detection of single bio-nanoparticles from virus down to single protein molecules, using Whispering-gallery wave bio-sensors.

#8044

Robert Ayres

#22618

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Robert Underwood Ayres was an American-born physicist and economist. His career focused on the application of physical ideas, especially the laws of thermodynamics, to economics; a long-standing pioneering interest in material flows and transformations —a concept which he originated. His most recent work challenged the widely held economic theory of growth.

#8045

Michael Barber

#78958

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Michael Newton Barber is a mathematician, physicist and academic. He was Vice Chancellor of Flinders University in South Australia from 2008 until 2014. Career Barber studied at the University of New South Wales, where he received the University Medal in applied mathematics and graduated with first class honours. He received a PhD from Cornell University in the USA in theoretical physics in 1972. He is best known for the scaling theory of finite size effects at phase transitions, which he introduced together with Michael Fisher.

#8046

Richard Hunstead

#123200

Overall Influence

1943 - 2020 (77 years)

Richard Waller Hunstead was a member and former head of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy and the Director of the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope , within the University of Sydney. He was known for his work in the field of quasars and radio galaxies. In 1995, he was awarded the Robert Ellery Lectureship of the Astronomical Society of Australia in recognition of his outstanding contributions in astronomy. One of 33 Australian Science Citation Laureates , he was the author of multiple high impact papers which are frequently cited by other scientists around the world. The minor plane...

#8047

Pierre Wiltzius

#119492

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Pierre Wiltzius is a physicist, the Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science and Susan & Bruce Worster Dean of Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

#8048

Solomon Saltiel

#145350

Overall Influence

1947 - 2009 (62 years)

Solomon Mois Saltiel , was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher and university lecturer. Biography Prof. Saltiel graduated in physics from the Moscow State University in 1973. His doctoral thesis, under the supervision of the professor S. A. Akhmanov was devoted to multiphoton nonresonant processes in crystals. From 1977 on he continued his research in nonlinear optics at Sofia University "Sv. Kliment Ohridski" and in 1995 was awarded tenure.

#8049

Durmus A. Demir

#152487

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Durmuş Ali Demir is a Turkish theoretical physicist at Sabancı University since 2019. He was a dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and Sciences at the Izmir Institute of Technology where he was the ex-chair of the Physics Department. His research areas include supersymmetric standard model, extra dimensions and general relativity.

#8050

Fang Fukang

#161902

Overall Influence

1935 - 2019 (84 years)

Fang Fukang was a Chinese physicist and systems scientist. He established the study of systems theory at Beijing Normal University and served as president of the university from 1989 to 1995. Biography Fang was born on 28 February 1935 in Shanghai, Republic of China, with his ancestral home in Dinghai, Zhejiang. He graduated from the Department of Physics of Beijing Normal University in 1956, and researched and taught nuclear physics afterwards.

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