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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#8601

Christy Holland

#137218

Overall Influence

Christy K. Holland is an American scientist and professor of internal medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Cincinnati. After a B.A. with majors in physics and music at Wellesley College, she obtained her Ph.D.in engineering and applied science from Yale University. Holland is editor-in-chief of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. Holland's articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals have been cited over 6300 times, giving her an h-index of 46.

#8602

Toshihiro Tanaka

#178198

Overall Influence

#8603

Sun Jinliang

#39321

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Sun Jinliang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of material science and engineering in Shanghai University.

#8604

Jack Connor

#171763

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

John 'Jack' Connor is a British theoretical physicist whose research focussed on understanding the physics of nuclear fusion. Education After studying for an undergraduate degree in Mathematical Physics at the University of Birmingham he gained a PhD in Elementary Particle Physics at the same university.

#8605

Michele Bannister

#174266

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Michele Bannister is a New Zealand planetary astronomer and science communicator at the University of Canterbury, who has participated in surveying the outermost Solar System for trans-Neptunian objects.

#8606

Mike Payne

#133492

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Michael Christopher Payne is a British theoretical physicist, working in the field of computational physics and theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of Cambridge. He is the creator of first principles total energy pseudopotential code CASTEP and has been involved in the development of the linear scaling code ONETEP. He was the 23rd most highly cited Physical Scientist in the UK between 1990 and 1999, and has published more than 250 papers which have had over 22,000 citations.

#8607

Hans Hertz

#145197

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Hans Martin Hertz, born 22 August 1955, is a Swedish physicist and professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Biography Hertz was born in Lund, Sweden, to Carl Hellmuth Hertz and his wife Birgit Nordbring. He is the grandson of Gustav Ludwig Hertz and the great great nephew of Heinrich Hertz. His father was a professor in Physics at Lund University and his mother was a professor in microbial ecology.

#8608

Steven Jay Schwartz

#176477

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Steven Jay Schwartz is a professor of space physics at Imperial College London. He was awarded the Chapman Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2006 "in recognition of his pioneering work in solar terrestrial physics and space plasma physics". In 2009, he became the head of the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial College London.

#8609

Alan Fowler

#81371

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Alan Bicksler Fowler is an American physicist. Life and education He was born in Denver, Colorado on October 15, 1928. Fowler served in the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1948 and from 1952 to 1953. He earned a BS in 1951, then an MS in 1952 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. In 1958, he earned his PhD from Harvard University.

#8610

Glenn D. Starkman

#171448

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Glenn David Starkmann is a Canadian physicist and professor at Case Western Reserve University. He was awarded with the Status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after being nominated by their Division of Astrophysics in 2005, for "his wide-ranging and creative contributions to particle astrophysics, including explorations of the possibility of non-trivial topology in the universe, and uncovering unexpected features in the cosmic microwave background fluctuations at large angular scales."

#8611

Thijs de Graauw

#170509

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Mattheus Wilhelmus Maria de Graauw is a Dutch astronomer. Thijs de Graauw studied astronomy at Utrecht University and received there his Ph.D. in 1975 under H. van Buren with a dissertation on 'Infrared Heterodyne Detection in Astronomy : Experiments and Observations'. From 1975 to 1983 he worked as a scientist for the Space Science Department of ESA . At ESA's largest facility, ESTEC in Noordwijk, he worked on the development of microwave receivers. In 1983 he became the director of the Groningen branch of SRON . From 2008 to 2013 he was the director of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submilli...

#8612

Damon Simonelli

#168085

Overall Influence

1959 - 2004 (45 years)

Damon Paul Simonelli was a planetary scientist who worked for Cornell University and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the U.S. He was a pioneer in the development of radiative transfer models to analyze astronomical objects.

#8613

Eugene Levich

#106684

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Eugene V. Levich is a Russian-Israeli physicist known for work on the Bose–Einstein condensate and 3D optical data storage. Levich has published over 100 papers and book chapters in the fields of plasma physics, astrophysics, phase transitions, nonlinear phenomena and chaos, turbulence in fluids and plasma and geophysics. He also holds over 40 patents in fundamental fields of technology, ranging from managing of turbulent drag and heat exchange in turbulent flows to optical storage in consumer electronics.

#8614

John Keith Moffat

#70531

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

John 'Keith' Moffat is Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and former Deputy Provost for Research at the University of Chicago. He currently heads BioCARS at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on the Advanced Photon Source. He is most noted for his contributions to Time resolved crystallography. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and former Cornell University faculty member. He has a Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge under the Nobel laureate Max Perutz at MRC-LMB and an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh. He is married with an adopted son.

#8615

Christian Wissel

#150488

Overall Influence

Christian Wissel, originally a physicist and professor at the University of Marburg, is an important founding father of modern ecological modelling in Germany. He established an influential department at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and led it until his retirement in 2005.

#8616

Brooke Benjamin

Brooke Benjamin

#38531

Overall Influence

1929 - 1995 (66 years)

Thomas Brooke Benjamin, FRS was an English mathematical physicist and mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis and fluid mechanics, especially in applications of nonlinear differential equations.

#8617

Ken Bloom

#135830

Overall Influence

Kenneth Arthur Bloom is an American particle physicist. He is a full professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. Early life and education Bloom was born to parents Estelle Bloom and Dr. Joel N. Bloom. Raised in South Orange, New Jersey, he attended Columbia High School, where he was captain of the school's physics team. He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and received his PhD in physics from Cornell University.

#8618

Vuk Mandić

#173370

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Vuk Mandić is a Serbian-American astrophysicist and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Minnesota. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society . Biography He grew up in Podgorica, where he received his elementary and secondary education. For his university education, he went to the United States. He graduated in 1998 with a B.S. in physics and mathematics from California Institute of Technology and in 2004 with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Bernard Sadoulet.

#8619

Marija Drndic

#142172

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Marija Drndic is the Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. She works on two-dimensional materials and novel spectroscopic techniques. Early life and education Drndic studied physics and mathematics at Harvard University and spent a year at the University of Cambridge in the Semiconductor Physics Group. At Cambridge Drndic worked on quantum transport of coupled gases with Michael Pepper. At Harvard University she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. Drndic was awarded a Clare Booth Luce Fellowship, the Harold T. White Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Robbins Prize from Harvard University.

#8620

Susan Blessing

#174782

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Susan K. Blessing is an American physicist who is currently a professor at Florida State University and an elected fellow of the American Physical Society. Early life and education Blessing was born on April 10, 1961. She earned her B.S. at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1982 and her Ph.D at Indiana University in 1989. After earning her Ph.D., she was a research associate at Northwestern University from 1989-1993.

#8621

J. Doyne Farmer

#178473

Overall Influence

#8622

John Peoples Jr.

#123479

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

John Peoples Jr. is an American physicist who served as Fermilab's third director, served as director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and oversaw the shutdown of the Superconducting Super Collider. Early life and education John Peoples Jr. was born on January 22, 1933, in New York City. After graduating from Staten Island Academy in 1950, he received a BSEE from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1955. He worked as an engineer at Martin-Marietta Corporation until 1959, when he entered Columbia University.

#8623

Stephan von Molnár

#149096

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Dr. Stephan von Molnár was an American academic physicist. He served as Professor of Physics at Florida State University and Director of MARTECH . He was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior U.S. Scientist Award.

#8624

Mercedes López-Morales

#176931

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Mercedes López-Morales is a Spanish-American astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who works on detection and characterization of exoplanet atmospheres.

#8625

Xavier Intes

#155117

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Xavier Intes is a French professor of physics and biomedical engineering and co-director of the BioImaging Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Life and career Intes had obtained his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from University of Western Brittany in 1992, 1994, and 1998 respectively. In 1999 he joined Britton Chance's laboratory as a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania and under his mentorship studied biochemistry and biophysics of radiology. He also did postdoctoral training at the Department of Astronomy and Physics where Arjun Yodh was his mentor. From 2001-2003...

#8626

W. Lewis Hyde

#170357

Overall Influence

1919 - 2003 (84 years)

Walter Lewis Hyde was an American physicist, an early contributor to the field of fiber optics. He held patents for devices used in ophthalmology, as well as a panoramic rear-view mirror for automobiles.

#8627

Graziella Branduardi-Raymont

#176964

Overall Influence

Graziella Branduardi-Raymont was an Italian physicist. She was a professor at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory . Biography Branduardi-Raymont obtained a degree in Physics from the University of Milan in 1973, and in 1974 began studying for a PhD at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory . She finished her PhD in X-ray Astronomy in 1977 and subsequently moved to the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian.

#8628

Eckart Marsch

#170255

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Eckart Marsch is a German theoretical physicist, who worked from 1980 to 2012 at the originally named Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, from 2004 on named Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau on the physics of the solar wind, solar corona and space plasmas and taught at the University of Göttingen.

#8629

Claude Pruneau

#112431

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Claude Pruneau is a Canadian-American experimental high-energy nuclear physicist. He is a professor of physics at Wayne State University and the author of several books. He is best known for his work on particle correlation measurements in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider.

#8630

Nan Dieter-Conklin

Nan Dieter-Conklin

#98994

Overall Influence

1926 - 2014 (88 years)

Nan Dieter-Conklin , also known as Nannielou Reier Hepburn Dieter Conklin, was an American radio astronomer. Early life Nannielou Reier was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter of Paul G. Reier. She attended Goucher College to study mathematics, but an astronomy course taught by Helen Dodson sparked her interest in that subject. Dieter spent summer internships at the Maria Mitchell Observatory, working under Margaret Harwood. She completed doctoral studies at Radcliffe College in 1958, using her own radio astronomy data in her dissertation on Galaxy M33. Her research involved the radio telescope at Harvard, and she took a Harvard course on variable stars from Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.

#8631

Lawrence W. Fagg

#178711

Overall Influence

1923 - 2015 (92 years)

Lawrence Wellburn Fagg Jr. was an American physicist. Lawrence Wellburn Fagg Jr. was born in New Jersey to Lawrence W. Fagg Sr. and his wife Doris Virginia Shea Fagg on October 10, 1923. The elder Fagg was recorded in the Army List and Directory of 1923 and 1926 as an infantry captain who had reported for duty on July 16, 1922. Fagg Jr. was raised in Washington D.C., and attended the United States Military Academy. Fagg then completed a Master of Science in physics at the University of Maryland, followed by a Master of Arts in the same subject at the Illinois University, before pursuing a doctorate in nuclear physics at Johns Hopkins University.

#8632

Stanley E. Whitcomb

#175055

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Stanley Ernest Whitcomb is an American physicist and was the chief scientist at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory project when the first direct detection of gravitational waves was made in September 2015.

#8633

Giulia Rodighiero

#172657

Overall Influence

Giulia Rodighiero is an Italian astronomer whose research concerns galaxy formation and evolution, and the effect of galactic collisions on star formation. Originally from Vicenza, she is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Padua, where she completed her PhD in 2003.

#8634

Ursel Bangert

#150483

Overall Influence

Ursel Bangert is the Bernal Chair in Microscopy and Imaging at the University of Limerick. She develops advanced characterisation techniques such as transmission electron microscopy for the atomic scale imaging of novel materials.

#8635

Kenzo Suzuki

#111060

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

is a Japanese astronomer from Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Between 1984 and 1992, he has discovered 42 minor planets mostly in collaboration with astronomers Takeshi Urata and Toshimasa Furuta. A local guide for the Brother Earth He is the discoverer of main-belt asteroid 3533 Toyota and it is named after his home town. Asteroid 5526 Kenzo is named after him. For the local community, Suzuki is a lecturer for astronomy and participates in programs at the Brother Earth planetarium, or the world largest planetarium at Nagoya City Science Museum in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He lets the visitors, ranging f...

#8636

Romney Duffey

#117236

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Romney Beecher Duffey is an American nuclear scientist. Duffey has worked on modern energy systems, in the areas of thermohydraulics, system design, system analysis, risk assessment, human factors, and technological safety in Britain, United States and Canada for about 40 years, and authored numerous publications, including several books.

#8637

William P. Bidelman

#119855

Overall Influence

1918 - 2011 (93 years)

William Pendry Bidelman was an American astronomer. Born in Los Angeles, and raised in North Dakota, he was noted for classifying the spectra of stars, and considered a pioneer in recognizing and classifying sub-groups of the peculiar stars.

#8638

Giorgio Apollinari

#178904

Overall Influence

Giorgio Apollinari is an American physicist, currently at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. External links

#8639

Jiang Fengyi

#169082

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jiang Fengyi is a Chinese scientist and educator in the fields of semiconductor. He is the current vice-president of Nanchang University. He has been hailed as "Father of silicon based luminescence in China". He is the director of the National Silicon-based LED Engineering Technology Research Center.

#8640

Paola Borri

#177972

Overall Influence

Paola Borri is an Italian physicist whose research in biophotonics has included the use of Raman scattering in 3d microscopy of cancer-derived organoids. Other topics in her research have included nonlinear optics and the study of quantum dots. She is a professor of biosciences and of physics and astronomy at Cardiff University, coordinator of the European Marie Curie ETN consortium MUSIQ, and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

#8641

Subodh Raghunath Shenoy

#171312

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Subodh Raghunath Shenoy is an Indian condensed matter physicist and a former professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He has also been associated with the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram. Known for his studies on Condensed matter physics and Statistical physics, his research covered topological defect-mediated phase transitions, vortex dynamics and decay kinetics of metastability.

#8642

Beck

#178957

Overall Influence

#8643

Mark A. Ratner

#178973

Overall Influence

#8644

David S. Eisenberg

#179004

Overall Influence

#8645

Vivien Zapf

#173193

Overall Influence

Vivien Zapf is an American research scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory pulsed field facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Biography Zapf received her bachelor's degree in physics with computer science from Harvey Mudd College in 1997 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego in 2003. Zapf studies Multiferrics and Quantum Magnetism. She served as a Millikan post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 2004-2005 and as a Director's fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2006.

#8646

David McNiven Garner

David McNiven Garner

#98367

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

David McNiven Garner was notable as a published research physicist, with a focus in physical oceanography and ocean circulation. History Garner attended New York University from 1959 to 1962, where he graduated with a PhD in Physics on 22 October 1962. Dr. Garner returned to New Zealand in 1962, joining a team of scientists that founded the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , then located in Hobson Street, Wellington, New Zealand.

#8647

Mitsunori Miki

#77173

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mitsunori Miki is a Japanese engineer, professor, and writer. Since 1994 he has been a professor at Doshisha University, where he oversees the Intelligent System Design Laboratory . He received his graduate degree from Osaka University in 1978. In addition to his academic research on parallel computing and intelligent systems, he has written opinion columns for Sankei Shimbun on education, technology, and employment.

#8648

Jules Horowitz

#70718

Overall Influence

1921 - 1995 (74 years)

Jules Horowitz was a French physicist. The Jules Horowitz Reactor is named after him.

#8649

Lynne Karen Deutsch

#165067

Overall Influence

1956 - 2004 (48 years)

Lynne Karen Deutsch was an American astrophysicist who helped develop the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/University of Arizona Mid-Infrared Array Camera . Deutsch was born in Chicago and earned her MS from MIT in 1983 and Ph. D. from Harvard in 1990. Her dissertation was on grain processing and the evolution of planetary nebulae with a mid-infrared array camera. Between 1990 and 1992 Deutsch served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center where she worked on MIRAC.

#8650

William Newcomb

#57588

Overall Influence

1901 - 1999 (98 years)

William Newcomb was an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, who is best known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960. He was the great-grandnephew of the astronomer Simon Newcomb.

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