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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#8301

Marcin Schroeder

Marcin Schroeder

#118472

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Marcin Schroeder is a Polish-Japanese mathematician and theoretical physicist, currently a professor and head of basic education and dean of academic affairs at Akita International University, Japan, and President Elect of the International Society for the Study of Information .

#8302

Bibijana Čujec

#169962

Overall Influence

1926 - 2022 (96 years)

Bibijana Čujec was a Slovene physicist. She obtained her degree in 1950 at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Ljubljana, and in 1959 her PhD in physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of University of Ljubljana. From 1954 to 1961 she worked at the Jožef Stefan Institute, specialized later in Pittsburgh, United States, and in 1963 moved to Canada.

#8303

Giuseppe Carleo

#121664

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Giuseppe Carleo is an Italian physicist. He is a professor of computational physics at EPFL and the head of the Laboratory of Computational Quantum Science. Career Carleo studied physics at the Sapienza University of Rome and in 2011 earned his PhD in theoretical physics at the International School for Advanced Studies under the supervision of Stefano Baroni. His thesis on "Spectral and dynamical properties of strongly correlated systems" was dedicated to novel numerical simulation techniques to study condensed-matter systems, such as the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo.

#8304

Ronald A. Roy

#77251

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Ronald A. Roy is an American engineer, physicist, and academic, who is an expert in physical acoustics and its applications to ultrasonics, biomedical acoustics, acousto-optics, cavitation, and bubble swarm acoustics.

#8305

Georgia Tourassi

Georgia Tourassi

#112782

Overall Influence

Georgia "Gina" D. Tourassi is the Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory health data sciences institute and adjunct Professor of radiology at Duke University. She works on biomedical informatics, computer-aided diagnosis and artificial intelligence in health care.

#8306

Tamir Gonen

#101580

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Tamir Gonen is an American structural biochemist and membrane biophysicist best known for his contributions to structural biology of membrane proteins, membrane biochemistry and electron cryo-microscopy particularly in electron crystallography of 2D crystals and for the development of 3D electron crystallography from microscopic crystals known as MicroED. Gonen is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, the founding director of the MicroED Imaging Center at UCLA and a Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

#8307

Mark Novotny

#173931

Overall Influence

Mark A. Novotny is an American physicist currently a W. L. Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and also American Physical Society for "original algorithm development and applications of computational statistical mechanics to equilibrium and non-equilibrium problems in condensed-matter physics and materials science".

#8308

Gloria Platero

#173501

Overall Influence

Gloria Platero Coello is a Spanish physicist whose research involves the computational simulation of quantum dots and other quantum behavior on nanostructures. She works for the Spanish National Research Council as a research professor at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid .

#8309

Julia Mundy

#122531

Overall Influence

Julia Mundy is an American experimental condensed matter physicist. She was awarded the 2019 George E. Valley Jr. Prize by the American Physical Society for "the pico-engineering and synthesis of the first room-temperature magnetoelectric multi-ferroic material." This prize recognizes an "individual in the early stages of his or her career for an outstanding scientific contribution to physics that is deemed to have significant potential for a dramatic impact on the field." She is an assistant professor of physics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

#8310

Richard Gaitskell

#159242

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Richard Jeremy Gaitskell is a physicist and professor at Brown University and a leading scientist in the search for particle dark matter. He is co-founder, a principal investigator, and co-spokesperson of the Large Underground Xenon experiment, which announced world-leading first results on October 30, 2013. He is also a leading investigator in the new LUX-Zeplin dark matter experiment.

#8311

Sascha Husa

#173957

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

#8312

Uwe Thumm

#168535

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Uwe Paul Erich Thumm is a German-American physicist with research interests in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and nanoscience. A distinguished physics professor at Kansas State University and the J. R. Macdonald Laboratory in Manhattan, Kansas his research team investigates the ultrafast dynamics of electrons and molecular fragments in laser-matter and particle-matter interactions, highly-charged-ion physics, electron–atom collisions, and plasmonic nanostructures. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of several awards, including the Senior Research Award of the...

#8313

John H. Brodie

#131547

Overall Influence

1970 - 2006 (36 years)

John Hartley Brodie , was an American theoretical physicist specializing in string theory. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder after a psychotic episode in 2002, he left academia in 2004. Early life and education Brodie was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to the British born Quaker biochemists Angela Hartley Brodie and Harry Brodie. His grandfather Herbert Hartley had also been a biochemist. He was raised in Columbia, Maryland, where he graduated from Atholton High School. Brodie received bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Cornell University in 1991 and 1992, respectively. He took o...

#8314

Dafydd Williams

Dafydd Williams

#7821

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Dafydd "David" Rhys Williams is a Canadian physician, public speaker, author and retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight, STS-118 in August 2007, was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. During that mission he performed three spacewalks, becoming the third Canadian to perform a spacewalk and setting a Canadian record for total number of spacewalks. These spacewalks combin...

#8315

Chandre Dharma-wardana

#107447

Overall Influence

Chandre Dharma-wardana is a Sri Lankan-born academic and scientist. A former president of Vidyodaya Campus , he is currently a professor of theoretical physics at the Université de Montréal. He has retired and continues as a principal research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada.

#8316

Thomas Faulkner

#94171

Overall Influence

Thomas Faulkner is a string theorist and professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, born in Melbourne, Australia. His undergraduate work was in physics at the University of Melbourne in Australia, from which he graduated in 2003.

#8317

Motrya Bratiychuk

#128600

Overall Influence

1927 - 2001 (74 years)

Matrona Vasylivna Bratiychuk was a Ukrainian astronomer, one of the first devoted to the observation of artificial satellites. Life Bratiychuk was born on 8 September 1927 in Verba, a village in the Dubno Raion of Ukraine, at the time part of the Soviet Union. After earning a degree in 1952 from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, she became a secondary school teacher for a year before continuing her graduate education.

#8318

Łukasz Sułkowski

Łukasz Sułkowski

#101799

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Łukasz Sułkowski is a Polish professor of economic sciences, specializing in management sciences. Currently employed in the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University, vice-president for international affairs of the Polish Accreditation Committee and Director of Clark University Branch Campus at University of Social Sciences in Poland. He is also the President of PCG Polska.

#8319

John J. Rehr

#134047

Overall Influence

John J. Rehr is an American theoretical physicist, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has worked in the field of theoreticalX-ray and electron-spectroscopies.

#8320

Chih-Kung Jen

#30670

Overall Influence

1906 - 1995 (89 years)

Chih-Kung Jen was a Chinese physicist who emigrated to the U.S. and participated in some of the 20th century's major scientific, political and social developments in both the United States and China.

#8321

Armen Sarvazyan

Armen Sarvazyan

#173909

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Armen Sarvazyan is a biophysicist and entrepreneur, serving as Chief Science Officer of Artann Laboratories. He is known for his work on the use of shear acoustic waves in medical imaging and diagnostics and the invention of shear-wave elasticity imaging .

#8322

Marco Micheli

#171546

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Marco Micheli is an Italian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. He is a researcher at the Centre for Earth Observation of ESAs Space Situational Awareness Programme in Italy. Career Micheli was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1983. He graduated in 2007 in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Pisa with a thesis on the YORP effect, and moved for his doctorate to the University of Hawaii where he studied Near-Earth objects and how their streams cause meteor showers. He then moved to ESA's Centre for Earth Observation in Frascati, Italy.

#8323

Miro Erkintalo

#169230

Overall Influence

Miro Erkintalo is a New Zealand physicist specialising in nonlinear optics and laser physics, based at the University of Auckland. Education Erkintalo was born and grew up in Pori, Finland, with an interest in science and maths. He attended the Tampere University of Technology intending to get his MSc and become a teacher or technologist, but after interning in a research lab decided to become a physicist. He completed three degrees in succession: a BSc , an MSc and Doctor of Science in Physics .

#8324

Peter Armbruster

#174089

Overall Influence

#8325

Rene Ong

#173316

Overall Influence

Rene Ashwin Ong is an American astrophysicist known for his work in experimental high-energy astrophysics, astroparticle physics, and particle physics. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#8326

David W. Hertzog

#171511

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

David William Hertzog is an American particle physicist, known for his research in precision muon physics. Biography Hertzog graduated in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in physics from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He received his doctorate in 1983 from the College of William & Mary. As a postdoc, from 1983 to 1986 he was a research associate at Carnegie Mellon University. At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign he was from 1986 to 1992 an assistant professor, from 1992 to 1997 an associate professor, and from 1997 to 2010 a full professor. In 2010 he became a professor at the University of Washington, where he is Arthur B.

#8327

Anette Hosoi

#59433

Overall Influence

Anette E. "Peko" Hosoi is an American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, currently the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#8328

Athena Sefat

#163582

Overall Influence

Athena Safa Sefat, born 1977 in Iran is a Canadian/American physicist, with research focus on quantum materials and correlated phenomena. She was a senior scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and led the DOE Basic Energy Science on "Probing Competing Chemical, Electronic, and Spin Correlations for Quantum Materials Functionality". She is currently a Program Manager at U.S. Department of Energy , Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, with Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.

#8329

Kristine Spekkens

#159432

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Kristine Spekkens is a Canadian astronomer, and is a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University. She is the Canadian Science Director for the Square Kilometre Array. Early life Spekkens was born in Hamilton, Ontario and grew up in Burlington, Ontario, spending most of her summers in a small cottage community in Chelsea, Québec. She attended École primaire St-Phillippe and École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier, and received her B.Sc. in Physics from Queen's University in 2000 and her PhD in astronomy from Cornell University in 2005.

#8330

Christine Joblin

#137861

Overall Influence

Christine Joblin is a French astrochemist who uses spectroscopy to study photodissociation and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in cosmic dust. Beyond her experimental and observational work, she also contributed to the first clear finding of buckminsterfullerene in a meteorite, a ureilite that exploded over the Nubian Desert in late 2008. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie in Toulouse.

#8331

Evsei Rabinovich

#167862

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Evsei Markovich Rabinovich , was a Russian physicist of Ukrainian origin who participated in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and was one designer of the two-stage RDS-37 thermonuclear discharges and its successor, the RDS-220, the largest-ever bomb.

#8332

Aron Wall

#157105

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Aron C. Wall is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in quantum gravity. He is Lecturer of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is one of the winners of the 2019 New Horizons in Physics Prize.

#8333

Kim Sung-hoon

#130385

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Dr. Kim Sunghoon is a South Korean biologist. Education 1981 B.S. Seoul National University1983 M.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology1991 Ph.D. Brown University, U.S. Work Dr. Sunghoon Kim has been studying novel functions of human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and searching for their pathophysiological connections to human diseases. He has identified potent novel tumor suppressors such as AIMP2/p38, AIMP3/p18. Besides, he has also investigated novel extracellular activities of ARSs and associated factors such as lysyl-tRNA synthetase, tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase and AIMP1/p43.

#8334

Kelsi Singer

#168181

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Kelsi N. Singer is an American planetary scientist who is a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO. She is a co-investigator and deputy project scientist of NASA's New Horizons mission studying the geomorphology and geophysics of the Pluto system and of Arrokoth .

#8335

Mitsutaka Fujita

#115240

Overall Influence

1959 - 1998 (39 years)

was a Japanese physicist. He proposed the edge state that is unique to graphene zigzag edges. Also, he theoretically pointed out the importance and peculiarity of nanoscale and edge shape effects in nanographene. The theoretical concept of graphene nanoribbons was introduced by him and his research group to study the nanoscale effect of graphene. He was an associate professor at Tsukuba University, and died of a subarachnoid hemorrhage on March 18, 1998. His posthumous name is in Japanese.

#8336

Indrek Martinson

#174232

Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

Indrek Martinson was an Estonian-born Swedish physicist. In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis at Stockholm University. He taught at Lund University . His main field of research was accelerator-based atomic physics.

#8337

Ian Grant

#89747

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Ian Philip Grant, DPhil; FRS; CMath; FIMA, FRAS, FInstP is a British mathematical physicist. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Oxford and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1992. He is a pioneer in the field of computational physics and is internationally recognised as the principal author of GRASP, the General Relativistic Atomic Structure Program.

#8338

Élisabeth Charlaix

#168517

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Élisabeth Charlaix , is a French physicist. She is a professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes, where she researches fluid mechanics to the sub-nanometre level. She was a co-developer of a surface-forces measuring device for very small-scale interactions.

#8339

Edith Jones Woodward

Edith Jones Woodward

#155389

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Edith Jones Woodward was an American astronomer and college professor. She did research on binary stars, and taught at William Paterson College in New Jersey for over twenty years. Early life Edith Jones was born in Waldron, Indiana, the daughter of James Raymond Jones and Mary "Madge" Yeager Jones. She attended Purdue University, earning a bachelor's of science in 1935. She won the Flora Roberts Medal as "outstanding senior woman" in her class at Purdue. She earned a PhD in astronomy from Harvard University in 1941, where she held a Pickering Fellowship in 1936 and worked with Harlow Shapley...

#8340

E. Peter Raynes

#113134

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Edward Peter Raynes is Professor of Optoelectronic Engineering at the University of Oxford . He was, and continues to be, an early developer and advocate of liquid crystal displays . Raynes was educated at St Peter's School, York and obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge; he then worked at RSRE for 21 years until 1991. He is a Fellow of St Cross College. He has been the chief scientist of Sharp Laboratories since 1992.

#8341

Carmen Menoni

#136195

Overall Influence

Carmen S. Menoni is an Argentine-American physicist who is the University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. Her research considers oxide materials for interference coatings and spectrometry imaging. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Physical Society, The Optical Society and SPIE. Menoni served as the President of the IEEE Photonics Society from 2020 to 2021.

#8342

Yamir Moreno

#141565

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Yamir Moreno is a professor of Physics at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Zaragoza and Director of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems at the same institution.

#8343

Christian Veillet

#126454

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

#8344

Edward A. Bayer

#120083

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Edward A. Bayer is an American-Israeli scientist. Education He graduated with B.Sc. and M. Sc. in Zoology and Biology in University of Michigan and Wayne State University. He immigrated to Israel in 1971. He then graduated a Ph.D. in biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, under the supervision of Meir Wilchek. Edward A. Bayer became a professor in the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2001 and published over 400 scientific papers. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, of US-Department of Energy BioEnergy Science Center since 2008 and of the Israel VATAT Planning and Budg...

#8345

Chris Wiggins

#52624

Overall Influence

Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University. In 2010 he co-founded hackNY, a nonprofit organization focused on connecting students with startups in New York City. Since 2014, he has been the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times.

#8346

Alexei Efros

#164852

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Alexei Lvovich Efros is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in condensed matter physics. He is currently a distinguished professor at University of Utah. Biography Efros was born in 1938 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. He received his Master of Science from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1961, and his PhD from the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in 1962. Following graduation, he continued working at the Ioffe Institute and in the process received a second PhD in 1972 in semiconductor physics. In 1986, he received the Landau Prize in theoretical physics from the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

#8347

Ilse Cleeves

#166087

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Lauren Ilsedore Cleeves is an American astrophysicist and an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia. She is specialized in the study of protoplanetary disks.

#8348

Béatrice Chatel

#93434

Overall Influence

Béatrice Chatel is a French physicist and researcher specializing in femtosecond lasers. She was awarded an Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2005 for her work. Life and work In 1993, Chatel graduated from the Institut d'optique Graduate School, sometimes called "SupOptique." She completed her thesis at the Kastler Brossel laboratory and then became a lecturer at the University Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier. After a short period at the Applied Optics Laboratory, she began full time research at the Collisions, Aggregates, Reactivity laboratory as a research fellow. Between 2013 and 2014, she was direct...

#8349

Matthew Davis

#174099

Overall Influence

Matthew Davis is a New Zealand/Australian physicist, and is Head of Physics at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is known for his work on the dynamics of vortices and superfluidity in Bose–Einstein condensates, particularly at finite temperatures

#8350

Cecilia Lunardini

#173231

Overall Influence

Cecilia Lunardini is an Italian nuclear astrophysicist known for her research on neutrinos from the sun, from the cosmic neutrino background, from supernovae and failed supernovae, and from collisions of stars with black holes. She is a professor of physics at Arizona State University.

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