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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#8151

Pierre Kaufmann

#168046

Overall Influence

1938 - 2017 (79 years)

Pierre Kaufmann was a French physicist and astronomer. He worked at Mackenzie University, Unicamp, and USP, and founded research into radio astronomy and solar physics in Brazil. Career He studied physics at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, starting in 1957, and graduating in 1961, before going to Leiden University and Groningen University.

#8152

Amita Das

#171817

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Amita Das is an Indian plasma physicist. She is currently a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Her research interests are in laser-plasma interactions, nonlinear plasmas, plasma turbulence and the properties of strongly coupled and dusty plasma systems.

#8153

Meera Chandrasekhar

#129590

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Meera Chandrasekhar , is a Curators’ Teaching of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri, United States. She is the recipient of the 2014 Baylor University's Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. Her research focuses on optical spectroscopy of semiconductors and superconductors under pressure. Meera has also developed several hands-on physics programs for students in grades 5–12, and summer institutes for K-12 teachers.

#8154

Mark Galassi

#119434

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Mark Galassi is a physicist, computer scientist, and contributor to the free and open-source software movement. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in France and Italy, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

#8155

Martin B. Einhorn

#139237

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Martin B. Einhorn is an American theoretical physicist. Education and career Einhorn received in 1965 his B.S. with honors from Caltech and in 1968 his Ph.D. from Princeton University under Marvin Leonard Goldberger. After postdoctoral positions at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory , he became a staff physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory . In 1976, he joined the faculty of the physics department of the University of Michigan where he was eventually promoted to full professor and retired as professor emeritus in 2004.

#8156

Marijan Šunjić

#140462

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Marijan Šunjić is a Croatian physicist, university professor, former rector of the University of Zagreb and a diplomat. Šunjić went to the Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb and later enrolled at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb where he graduated from the Physics department in 1963. In 1966 he earned his Master of Science degree at the Faculty of Science with a thesis in theoretical solid-state physics and 1970 he earned a doctorate at the Imperial College London. Between 1963 and 1970 he worked at the Ruđer Bošković Institute and in 1981 he became a professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Science.

#8157

Joel M. Moss

#122737

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Joel Marshall Moss is an American experimental nuclear physicist. Education and career Moss received his bachelor's degree from Fort Hays State University in 1964 and his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. As a postdoc he was from 1969 to 1971 a research associate at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre and from 1971 to 1973 an instructor in physics at the University of Minnesota. He was from 1973 to 1978 an assistant professor and from 1978 to 1980 associate professor at Texas A&M University. There he studied giant resonances of atomic nuclei with Texas A...

#8158

Michael Ashley

#84243

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Michael C. B. Ashley is an Australian astronomer and professor in the school of physics at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. He is most famous for his work in Antarctica, with the study of the seeing capability at Dome C.

#8159

Richard Davis

#119527

Overall Influence

1949 - 2016 (67 years)

Richard John Davis, OBE, FRAS was a radio astronomer for the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. Personal life Davis was born in March, Cambridgeshire, England, the first child of Hugh Davis, a railway man, and Thelma Carter. He had a brother, architect Christopher Davis, and Richard had two sons, William and Anthony. After falling ill in Italy, he died on 2 May 2016, aged 66, at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. He was survived by his mother. His funeral took place at St Paul's Church, Macclesfield, on 25 May 2016.

#8160

Marek Potemski

#172007

Overall Influence

Marek Potemski is a French - Polish physicist currently at LNCMI and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

#8161

Manuela Temmer

#171749

Overall Influence

Manuela Temmer is Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Graz, Austria and Head of the Heliospheric Physics Research Group. She is an expert in the science underpinning space weather forecasting.

#8162

M. Parker Givens

#135784

Overall Influence

1916 - 2013 (97 years)

Miles Parker Givens was an American optical physicist, former acting director and professor emeritus at The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. His work spanned several topics in physical optics, including holography and photogrammetry. He made important contributions to the development of optical data processing and synthetic holography.

#8163

Robert Balson Dingle

#133697

Overall Influence

1926 - 2010 (84 years)

Robert Balson Dingle was a British theoretical physicist, known for his work on mathematical physics, condensed matter physics, asymptotic expansions, anomalous skin effect, liquid helium II, mathematical functions and integrals. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

#8164

Michel Orrit

#120504

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Michael Orrit is a French physicist who is noted for his work on single molecule physics. He is currently professor at Leiden University. Awards 1998 Hans Sigrist Prize1985 Humboldt scholarship for a research stay in Göttingen1985 Hughes Prize from the French Academy of Sciences2010 Harkins Lecturer, Chicago, USA2016 Edison Volta Prize2017 Spinoza Prize2018 Honorary Professorof the Moscow State Pedagogical University

#8165

Mario Runco Jr.

Mario Runco Jr.

#80443

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Lieutenant Commander Mario Runco Jr. is a former United States Naval officer and NASA astronaut. He was selected as an astronaut with in 1987. He flew three Space Shuttle missions, performed a spacewalk on his second mission, and is now retired both from NASA and the U.S. Navy.

#8166

Michael Steinitz

Michael Steinitz

#172159

Overall Influence

Michael O. Steinitz is an professor emeritus of physics at St. Francis Xavier University. From 1998 to 1999, Steinitz was the president of the Canadian Association of Physicists. He spearheads the Antigonish Performing Arts Series for the town of Antigonish.

#8167

Yuei-An Liou

#33355

Overall Influence

Yuei-An Liou is a Taiwanese professor at the National Central University. Education Liu received a Bachelor of Science from the National Sun Yat-Sen University in 1987, and a Masters in Atmospheric and Space Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1994. He completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan in 1996.

#8168

Liu Gaolian

#52241

Overall Influence

1932 - 2008 (76 years)

Gaolian Liu is a scientist of Engineering Thermal Physics and Hydrodynamics, a professor of Shanghai University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Professor Liu has taught at Shanghai University Mechanics Research Institute. He has long been engaged in the research of pneumatic theory of turbomachine and hydromechanics. Based on Wu Zhonghua's 3D fluid theory of turbomachine, he established a new theory system with the variation theory as a foundation. Liu introduced a systematic channel of the establishment and transformation of the hydromechanical variation principle.

#8169

R. Michael Barnett

#172205

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

R. Michael Barnett, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after being nominated by the laboratory's Division of Particles and Fields in 1993. His award was for contributions to phenomenological analyses of the Standard Model and its extensions, including studies of the nature and validity of Quantum Chromodynamics, analyses of neutral current couplings, calculations of the production of heavy quarks, and predictions of the properties and decays of supersymmetric particles.

#8170

Alexander Shlyakhter

#170154

Overall Influence

1901 - 2000 (99 years)

Alexander Isaakovich Shlyakhter was a Russian nuclear physicist and risk analyst. Shlyakhter is best known for discovering empirical evidence for the constancy of fundamental constants. While still a student in Leningrad, he observed that the products of past nuclear reactions at a natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, Gabon demonstrate that the fine-structure constant α has changed less than 10−17 per year over the last two billion years. He published the finding in a letter to Nature in 1976. Freeman Dyson later wrote that Shlyakhter had "revolutionized the subject" of variation in physi...

#8171

Gebhard Schertler

#115336

Overall Influence

#8172

Ana Claudia Arias

#114576

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Ana Claudia Arias is a Brazilian American physicist who is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research considers printed electronic materials and their application in flexible electronics and wearable medical devices.

#8173

Choi Wonshik

#13836

Overall Influence

Choi Wonshik is an optical physicist researching deep-tissue imaging and imaging through scattering media. He is a full professor in the Department of Physics of Korea University where he serves as the associate director at the IBS Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics. Inside the Center, he leads the Super-depth Imaging Lab. He has been cited more than 4,000 times and has an h-index of 32. He is a fellow of The Optical Society and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

#8174

Reimund Gerhard

#168586

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Reimund Gerhard is a German applied physicist and university professor. Between 1979 and 2006 he used the last name "Gerhard-Multhaupt". Education Gerhard graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt as Diplom-Physiker in 1978 and was a research student with Martin M. Perlman in 1978/79. In 1984, he obtained his Ph.D. with Gerhard M. Sessler at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

#8175

Allen Sessoms

#117043

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Allen Lee Sessoms is an American physicist, diplomat, and academic administrator. His scientific research focused on quarks and related subatomic particles at CERN and Harvard University. Sessoms worked in the United States Department of State for 12 years, rising to the position of deputy ambassador at the Embassy of the United States, Mexico City. He later served as president of Queens College, City University of New York, Delaware State University, and the University of the District of Columbia.

#8176

Raphaël Liégeois

#109717

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Raphaël Liégeois is a Belgian-Luxembourgish biomedical engineer and astronaut. Liégeois completed a doctorate at the University of Liège on the functioning of the human brain from 2011 to 2015, and then held post-doctoral appointments at the National University of Singapore and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He has held a teaching and research position at the University of Geneva and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne since 2021. He was selected as a member of the 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group.

#8177

Andrei Gritsan

#170947

Overall Influence

Andrei V. Gritsan is an American-Siberian particle physicist. He was a member of a team of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider, who, in 2012, announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle, a Higgs boson.

#8178

Jana Tichá

#79497

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Jana Tichá is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory.

#8179

Anthony Milner Lane

#171216

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

Anthony Milner Lane was a leading theoretical nuclear physicist who had a career in the Theoretical Physics Division at the Atomic Energy and Research Establishment at Harwell. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975.

#8180

Helen Freedhoff

Helen Freedhoff

#96652

Overall Influence

1940 - 2017 (77 years)

Helen Sarah Freedhoff was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms. She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College in London. Freedhoff was the first woman appointed as a physics professor at York University in Toronto, and is believed to have been the only woman professor of theoretical physics in Canada at the time.

#8181

Nikolai Eberhardt

#112945

Overall Influence

Nikolai Eberhardt was a German émigré physicist and author of From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament . Biography Born 1930 in Estonia, Eberhardt has German, Swedish and Russian ancestry. He studied philosophy in Graz, Austria and physics in Munich, gaining a Physics Diploma in 1957, and a Doctor of Science degree in 1962 from the Institute of Technology in Munich. He served as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University . Intermittently he also served as Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and Society program. Besides numerous publications, he has multiple patents to his credit in the areas of color-television tubes, microwave devices, robotics and instrumentation.

#8182

Lorella Jones

#161577

Overall Influence

1943 - 1995 (52 years)

Lorella Margaret Jones , was a professor of physics and director of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Jones was interested in the application of computers to physics education and championed the cause of women in physics. She wrote an essay entitled "Intellectual Contributions of Women in Physics" in Women of Science: Righting the Record.

#8183

Anne Archibald

#134207

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Anne Murray Archibald is a Canadian astronomer known for her observations of pulsars and as one of the developers of SciPy, a scientific programming library for the Python programming language. Education and career Archibald did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Waterloo, including internships involving computer graphics and the image analysis of radar data. After doing a master's degree in pure mathematics at McGill University, she became a doctoral student of astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi at McGill, and won both the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and the J.S.

#8184

Gillian Wilson

#172364

Overall Influence

Gillian Wilson is a British-American astronomer and cosmologist. Wilson joined University of California, Merced in October 2022 as Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development and is also a Professor in the UC Merced Physics Department. She was formerly Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, where she was also Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development.

#8185

E. V. Sampathkumaran

#20706

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Echur Varadadesikan Sampathkumaran is an Indian condensed matter physicist and a Distinguished Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Known for his research on the thermal and transport behaviour of magnetic systems, Sampathkumaran is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India as well as The World Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him th...

#8186

Elizabeth H. Field

#61548

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Hirak Field is an academic scholar and professor in the University of Iowa’s Department of Internal Medicine. Education Field received her BS degree in physics from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. She received her MD degree from Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, where she also performed her residency in internal medicine. She conducted a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in both immunology and rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

#8187

Ann Heinson

#129040

Overall Influence

Ann Heinson is an American high-energy particle physicist known for her work on single top quark physics. She established and led the DØ Single Top Group which first published experimental observations of the top quark, and in 1997 she co-authored a paper which laid the foundations for further investigation into the top quark.

#8188

Len Ackland

#76889

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Len Earl Ackland is a journalist and retired journalism professor from the University of Colorado Boulder. He was founding director of the Center for Environmental Journalism in 1992. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor's degree in history, and from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies with a Master's degree. He was a humanitarian worker, RAND researcher and freelance writer during the Vietnam War in 1967-68. He was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Des Moines Register, where he won The George Polk Award in 1978 for a...

#8189

Paolo Pelosi

#172411

Overall Influence

#8190

Stephen Garoff

#129370

Overall Influence

Stephen Garoff is an American physicist. Garoff earned a bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1972 and studied applied physics at Harvard University, completing a master's degree in 1974, followed by a doctorate in 1977. Garoff subsequently became a research scientist for Exxon until 1986, when he moved to Schlumberger in the same role. Garoff joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty in 1988 as professor of physics, and concurrently held courtesy appoints in materials science and engineering and chemical engineering. In 1998, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, "[...

#8191

Avraham Gover

#79772

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Avraham Gover is an Israeli professor of Electrical Engineering in the Physical Electronics Department of the Engineering Faculty at Tel Aviv University, specializing in Quantum Electronics and FEL Physics. Gover is also the head of the Israeli Center for Radiation Sources and Applications in Ariel. In 2005, he was awarded the international FEL prize "in recognition for his outstanding contributions to Free Electron Laser science and technology".

#8192

Maurice Morton

#87053

Overall Influence

1913 - 1994 (81 years)

Maurice Morton was a polymer author, educator, and researcher. He was the first director of the University of Akron's Institute of Rubber Research, which in 1993 was renamed the Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science.

#8193

Michelle Povinelli

Michelle Povinelli

#124056

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Michelle Povinelli is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southern California and Fellow of the OSA and SPIE. Povinelli's research in nanophotonics focuses on the behavior of light inside complex materials.

#8194

Lucy-Ann McFadden

#120623

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Lucy-Ann Adams McFadden is an American astronomer and planetary scientist. An employee of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, she also founded the Science, Discovery & the Universe Program within the University of Maryland, and the Explore-It-All Science Center, a children's science program.

#8195

G. Armour Craig

#57262

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

George Armour Craig was a long-time professor of English and, at the end of his career, the acting president of Amherst College. Life Craig was born on November 15, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended the Hawken School. A member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1937, and subsequently studied English at Harvard University receiving an M.A. in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1947. Craig married Margaret Ball, who died in 1996, and the couple had two children, daughter Sara Margaret Ballantine and son James Ball Craig.

#8196

Marco Brambilla

#172533

Overall Influence

#8197

Maria Dworzecka

#129749

Overall Influence

1941 - 2023 (82 years)

Maria Dworzecka, originally Marysia Rozenszajn was a Polish-American computational nuclear physicist and physics educator, and a survivor of the Białystok Ghetto. Topics in her research have included the Hartree–Fock method, heavy-ion collisionss, and the dissipation of nuclear energy; she has also been recognized for her involvement in the development of educational software for physics simulations. She was a professor emerita in the Physics & Astronomy Department at George Mason University. Maria died on January 16, 2023 in Fairfax, Virginia. She was 81 years old.

#8198

Borys Grynyov

#93753

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Borys Viktorovych Grynyov is a Ukrainian scientist, public figure, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , Honored Science Worker of Ukraine, Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor and currently Director of the State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine. Chief Researcher of Institute for Scintillation Materials NAS of Ukraine

#8199

Friedrich Stephan

#142898

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Dr. Friedrich Karl Stephan is an American academic who is a circadian physiologist. He is the Curt P. Richter Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Florida State University. His research focuses on localization and function of biological clocks in vertebrates, light and food as entraining signals for circadian rhythms, obesity, sleep, and reproduction. He is credited as the discoverer of the suprachiasmatic nucleus .

#8200

José Luis Sérsic

José Luis Sérsic

#74101

Overall Influence

1933 - 1993 (60 years)

José Luis Sérsic was an Argentine astronomer who studied the morphology of galaxies. He is most widely known for the mathematical model of galaxy brightness, the Sersic profile, which bears his name. José Luis Sérsic first published his law in 1963.

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