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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#8501

Gail McConnell

#130594

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Gail McConnell is a Scottish physicist who is Professor of Physics and director of the Centre for Biophotonics at the University of Strathclyde. She is interested in optical microscopy and novel imaging techniques, and leads the Mesolens microscope facility where her research investigates linear and non-linear optics.

#8502

Guy Wilkinson

#162050

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Guy Roderick Wilkinson is a particle physicist, working on the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, professor of physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Christ Church, where he holds the college's Alfred Moritz Studentship.

#8503

Suzanne Scarlata

#172495

Overall Influence

Suzanne Frances Scarlata is the Richard Whitcomb Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She is known for her work on how cells respond to hormones and neurotransmitters. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#8504

Elias Gyftopoulos

#93373

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Elias Panayiotis Gyftopoulos was a Greek-American engineer who contributed to thermodynamics both in its general formulation and its quantum foundations. Gyftopoulos received an undergraduate degree in mechanical and electrical engineering in 1953 from the National Technical University of Athens, and a Doctor of Science degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958. At MIT, he initially focused on nuclear reactor safety and control. After meeting professors George N. Hatsopoulos and Joseph H. Keenan, his interests moved towards thermodynamics, in an att...

#8505

Ursula Gibson

#82493

Overall Influence

Ursula J. Gibson is a materials scientist who specialises in novel core optical fibres. Early life and education Gibson was born in Sheffield, England, and moved to the US in the 1960s, living in the Philadelphia area, then Ithaca, New York. She received in A.B. in physics from Dartmouth College. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Cornell University under the supervision of Robert Buhrman in 1978 and 1982, respectively. Her graduate research was in the area of thin film composites. During her doctoral work she held a Bell Laboratories Graduate Research Program for Women grant, and spent ...

#8506

Tabbetha Dobbins

Tabbetha Dobbins

#152707

Overall Influence

Tabbetha A. Dobbins is an American physicist and an associate professor of Physics & Astronomy at Rowan University, where she also serves as the vice president for research. Her research investigates the relationship between structure and dynamics in composite materials using neutron and X-ray scattering with applications to modern engineering problems in carbon nanotubes, gold nanoparticles, the hydrogen fuel economy and polymer self-assembly.

#8507

Biswa Ranjan Nag

#118440

Overall Influence

1932 - 2004 (72 years)

Biswa Ranjan Nag was an Indian physicist and the Sisir Kumar Mitra chair professor at Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta. Known for his research in semiconductor physics, Nag was an elected fellow of Indian National Science Academy and Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Physical Sciences in 1974.

#8508

John Walker Sharpe

#134913

Overall Influence

1916 - 1997 (81 years)

John Walker Sharpe FRSE FIP was a 20th century Scottish physicist specialising in the electron microscope. Life Sharpe was born in Stenhousemuir on 21 October 1916. He was educated at Falkirk High School. He won a bursary to Glasgow University where he studied Mathematics and Natural Philosophy graduating MA in 1939. He then won a Ferguson Scholarship and used this for postgraduate studies at St. John's College, Cambridge. However these studies were interrupted by the Second World War and he instead served as Scientific Officer to the Mine Warfare Department of the Admiralty. This initialled...

#8509

Florence Shirley Patterson Jones

#129868

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Florence Shirley Patterson Jones was a Canadian-born American astronomer. Early life Florence Shirley Patterson was born in Newmarket, Ontario, the daughter of William and Florence Patterson. She earned undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto in 1935. The following year she worked on a project at David Dunlap Observatory, and earned a master's degree at Toronto with her astronomy thesis, titled ""Stellar wavelengths from spectrographs of small dispersions." In 1938 she moved to Massachusetts and worked at the Harvard College Observatory, under advisors Harlow Shapley and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.

#8510

Natasha Flyer

#99952

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Natasha Flyer is an American earth scientist and applied mathematician known for her expertise on radial basis functions. She works as a research scientist in the Analytics and Integrative Machine Learning laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and is also an affiliate of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

#8511

Andrey Varlamov

Andrey Varlamov

#175433

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Andrey A. Varlamov is an Italian physicist of Ukrainian origin. He is a principal investigator at the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices in Rome, Italy.

#8512

Jean Cleymans

#156389

Overall Influence

1944 - 2021 (77 years)

Jean Cleymans was a Belgian physicist and a professor at the University of Cape Town . He made notable contributions to the area of quark-gluon plasma physics with focus on statistical hadronization.

#8513

Nicole Bell

#162650

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Nicole F. Bell is an Australian physicist who is a professor at the University of Melbourne. She is a theoretical physicist who works on dark matter, neutrino physics, and other topics in particle and astroparticle theory

#8514

John Houghton

#72459

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Sir John Theodore Houghton was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's scientific assessment working group which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore. He was the lead editor of first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheric physics at the University of Oxford, former Director General at the Met Office and founder of the Hadley Centre.

#8515

Tatjana Tchumatchenko

#119351

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Tatjana Tchumatchenko is a physicist in the field of theoretical neuroscience. She is an independent Max Planck Group Leader and, since November 2020, professor for Computational Neuroscience of Behavior at the Faculty of Medicine of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In her research she investigates how neural networks compute and how particular activity patterns emerge from synaptic and neuronal features.

#8516

Henry G. Blosser

#136893

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Henry "Hank" Gabriel Blosser was an American nuclear physicist, known as a director for designing and building superconducting cyclotrons. Biography His father, Emanuel Blosser , was a prominent citizen of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and was extremely successful in the poultry business and in banking. After graduating from Harrisonburg High School in 1945, Henry Blosser attended the University of Virginia for a year and then served for two years in the U.S. Navy. At UVA he was an undergraduate from 1948 to 1951, when he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. From 1951 to 1954 he was a graduate student in physics at UVA, graduating with an M.S.

#8517

James Maurice Daniels

#138985

Overall Influence

1924 - 2016 (92 years)

James Maurice Daniels was a Canadian Oxford-educated physicist, inventor, author, and former university professor. He was a physics professor at the University of British Columbia, from 1953 to 1960, then a year as a visiting professor at Instituto de Fisica J.A. Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina, before becoming a professor of Physics at the University of Toronto. He also served 5 years as Chairman of the department. He retired as Professor Emeritus in the late 1980s to live near Princeton, where he had been a visiting senior researcher in 1984–85.

#8518

Manfred Cuntz

#171705

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Manfred Cuntz is a German astrophysicist based in the United States since 1988. He is a Distinguished Professor of physics at the University of Texas at Arlington . His primary research interests include stellar astrophysics, astrobiology, and planetary habitability.

#8519

Gilad Haran

#176404

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Gilad Haran is an Israeli biophysicist and physical chemist, a full professor at the Faculty of Chemistry in the Weizmann Institute of Science, and its former dean. An expert in molecular machines. Laureate of Weizmann Prize and Nakanishi Prize .

#8520

Ian P. Griffin

#50879

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Ian P. Griffin is a New Zealand astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and a public spokesman upon scientific matters. He is currently the Director of Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand. Griffin was the CEO of Science Oxford, in Oxford, United Kingdom, and the former head of public outreach at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute.

#8521

Dawn K. Erb

#175950

Overall Influence

Dawn K. Erb is an American physicist. She is an associate professor in the department of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Early life and education Erb completed her PhD in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 2005 and accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian.

#8522

John Rasmussen

#171931

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

John Rasmussen is a professor of biomechanics at Aalborg University. His research is aimed both at solid mechanics, biomechanics, biomedical engineering and sports engineering. Education and research John Rasmussen was educated at Aalborg University, where he graduated as MA in 1986, and three years later received his PhD in computer-aided engineering. In addition to his academic work, John Rasmussen acted as chief executive officer at AnyBody Technology A/S from 2001 to 2008 and subsequently became the CTO of the same company. Furthermore, Rasmussen publishes research on a personal blog.

#8523

Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

#175601

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes is a Spanish physicist, currently Full Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Zaragoza . He is known for his works on complex systems, in particular on the structure and dynamics of complex networks.

#8524

Erich Karkoschka

#172889

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Erich Karkoschka is a planetary researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona. He discovered a satellite of Uranus, S/1986 U 10 on photographs taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. He has assembled a number of movies including: the Huygens landing on the moon Titan, the seasonal patterns on Uranus, and a rare triple eclipse on Jupiter. The Jupiter and Uranus images were released as US postage stamps in 2016.

#8525

Jerzy Stanisław Janicki

Jerzy Stanisław Janicki

#126613

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Jerzy Stanisław Janicki , Ph.D. in physical sciences, member of the scientific and educational staff of the Physics Institute at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań . Education and scientific activities Graduated from The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1980 specialising in – Experimental Physics. Since 1980 he worked in the Physics Institute AMU at the position of assistant. In 1994 he defended his Ph.D. in nuclear physics .

#8526

Corinne Manogue

#52327

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Corinne Alison Manogue is an American physicist who has worked in general relativity, mathematical physics, and physics education. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005, and was an inaugural Fellow of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 2014.

#8527

John B. West

#176894

Overall Influence

#8528

Bernard Guinot

#109297

Overall Influence

1925 - 2017 (92 years)

Bernard René Guinot was a French astronomer. He is known for his contributions to the establishment of temps atomique international and the geodetic reference system used in satellite navigation. Biography From 1945 to 1952, Guinot served as an officer in the Messageries Maritimes. In 1952 he became an astronomer at the Paris Observatory, where he worked with André Danjon on applications and further developments of the Danjon prismatic astrolabe. The applications were especially concerned with precise determinations of polar motions and variations in the Earth's rotation. In 1958 with a diss...

#8529

Alan Head

#131335

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Alan Kenneth Head AO, FAA, FRS was an Australian physicist, and Chief of the Division of Chemical Physics, at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1981 to 2010. Head earned a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne, PhD from the University of Bristol, and Doctorate of Science from the University of Melbourne. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his "service to science through research into the structure of solids and its application to industry".

#8530

Harry Whale

#171331

Overall Influence

1921 - 2009 (88 years)

Henry Arthur Whale was a professor of physics at the University of Auckland. Whale was born in Windsor, England in 1921, the son of Frank Arthur Whale. He had his secondary schooling at Auckland Grammar School before studying science at the University of Auckland, from where he graduated M.Sc. in 1946.

#8531

Elisabetta Matsumoto

#109570

Overall Influence

Elisabetta Matsumoto is an American physicist whose scientific interests include the study of knitted fabrics' special mathematical and mechanical properties. After earning her PhD Matsumoto accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

#8532

Choong-Seock Chang

#172476

Overall Influence

Choong-Seock Chang is a South Korean physicist. Chang earned an undergraduate degree from Seoul National University in 1974, and pursued a doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin. After completing his studies in 1979, Chang undertook research in La Jolla and Carlsbad, California. In 1986, Chang was appointed a professor of physics at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and concurrently held a research professorship at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 1988. He became a research physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 2011, and retained a joint professorship at KAIST.

#8533

Iryna Adamenko

#174809

Overall Influence

1935 - 2010 (75 years)

Iryna Ivanivna Adamenko was a Ukrainian scientist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and Professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Biography Iryna Ivanivna Adamenko was born on January 25, 1935, in Kyiv. In 1957, she graduated from the Faculty of Physics at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She worked at the same university since 1958, starting as a senior research fellow, then an assistant, a senior lecturer, associate professor , professor , and later as a leading research fellow, professor-consultant.

#8534

Liu Chao-han

#93790

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Liu Chao-han is a radio engineer/scientist and an international leader in solar terrestrial physics and remote sensing research. He served as Vice President of the Academia Sinica from 2006 to 2011 after serving as President of National Central University for 12 years and as Chancellor of the University System of Taiwan for 4 years. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an Academician of the Academia Sinica and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

#8535

Anita Cochran

#171557

Overall Influence

Anita L. Cochran is an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and senior research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the assistant director for research support at the McDonald Observatory. She focuses on the study of primitive bodies in the solar system and the composition of comets.

#8536

Igor Serafimovich Tashlykov

#168771

Overall Influence

1946 - 2016 (70 years)

Igor Serafimovich Tashlykov was a Soviet and Belarusian physicist, who was awarded the Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree . He was a member of the Belarusian Physical Society . He carried out research at the Research Institute of Applied Physical Problems of the Belarusian State University , the Belarusian State Technological University , the Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University .

#8537

Bishun Khare

#58415

Overall Influence

1933 - 2013 (80 years)

Bishun Narain Khare was a scientist who specialized in the chemistry of planetary atmospheres and of molecules relevant to biology. He published several papers on tholins, the organic molecules formed by ultraviolet radiation or cosmic rays. From 1968 to 1996, Khare worked in Carl Sagan's Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. During this time he appeared in the Cosmos television series. From 1996 to 1998, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center and from 1998 onward he worked at the SETI Institute.

#8538

George Series

#53747

Overall Influence

1920 - 1995 (75 years)

George William Series FRS was a British physicist, notable for his work on the optical spectroscopy of hydrogen atoms. Early life and education Series was born in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, the son of William Series and his wife Alice , née Crosthwaite. Aged ten he won a scholarship to Queen Mary's Grammar School, Basingstoke, and later to Reading School. In 1938 he was awarded an open scholarship and matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, where he graduated with first class honours in 1947, his studies having been interrupted by the Second World War . He took his MA and DPhil from ...

#8539

Donald Johnson

#177133

Overall Influence

#8540

Peter LeComber

#106402

Overall Influence

1941 - 1992 (51 years)

Peter George Le Comber FRS FRSE was a British solid-state physicist and academic. With ten patents to his name, he is in part responsible for the development of items such as flat-screen televisions and solar power cells. He worked closely with Walter Eric Spear FRS in the development of Amorphous silicon and the creation of solar panels.

#8541

Stanley Autler

#106762

Overall Influence

1922 - 1991 (69 years)

Stanley Howard Autler was an American physicist. After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from the City College of New York, he was award his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Thereafter he joined the staff of Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he performed research on low temperature physics, solid state physics and high magnetic field superconductivity. In 1955, he and Charles H. Townes demonstrated a new dynamic Stark effect, later known as the Autler–Townes effect. This occurs when "a microwave transition can be split into two components when one o...

#8542

Charles Pereira

#106813

Overall Influence

1913 - 2004 (91 years)

Sir Herbert Charles Pereira FRS was a British hydrologist. He was born in London but spent his early years in Saskatchewan on an Indian Reservation. He was educated there, then at St Albans School and the University of London, where he graduated in mathematics and physics.

#8543

George Klein

#47231

Overall Influence

1904 - 1992 (88 years)

George Johann Klein, was a Canadian inventor who is often called the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century. Although he struggled as a high school student, he eventually graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering. His inventions include key contributions to the first electric wheelchairs for quadriplegicss, the first microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor which was the precursor to the CANDU reactor, the international system for classifying ground-cover snow, aircraft skis, the Weasel all-terrain vehicle, the STEM antenna for the space pro...

#8544

Christine Aidala

Christine Aidala

#165161

Overall Influence

Christine Angela Aidala is an American high-energy nuclear physicist, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. She studies nucleon structure and parton dynamics in quantum chromodynamics.

#8545

Matthew S. Rosen

#87180

Overall Influence

Matthew S. Rosen is an American physicist and professor. After graduating from The Knox School in St. James, New York, in 1988, Rosen completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, followed by a doctorate in the same subject at the University of Michigan. Rosen was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021, for his research on "medical imaging through the development and commercialization of low field human MRI scanners, for the development of automated transform by manifold approximation , a general AI-based image reconstruction framework, and fo...

#8546

Gordon Van Wylen

#59096

Overall Influence

1920 - 2020 (100 years)

Gordon John Van Wylen was an American engineer, educator, and college administrator, known for his textbooks on thermodynamics and his service as president of Hope College from 1972 to 1987. Biography Van Wylen was born in Grant, Michigan. He served in the United States Navy during World War II.

#8547

Henry Joy McCracken

#177246

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

#8548

Peter J. Davies

#177248

Overall Influence

#8549

John Conway

#169363

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

John E. Conway is a British astronomer. He is director of Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden. He was appointed professor of observational radio astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 2010.

#8550

Judith Dawes

#165320

Overall Influence

Judith M. Dawes is an Australian physicist who is Professor of Physics at Macquarie University. She studies the interactions of light at the nanoscale and the applications of lasers in sensing. She is a former president of the Australian Optical Society, and a Fellow of SPIE and Optica .

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