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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#8801

Stefanie Barz

#136771

Overall Influence

Stefanie Barz is a German physicist and Professor of Quantum Information and Technology at the University of Stuttgart. She studies quantum physics and quantum information in photonics. Early life and education Barz studied mathematics, physics and computer sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. During her undergraduate studies she was an Erasmus Programme student at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD in Vienna before moving to the University of Oxford, where she worked in quantum photonics. She was awarded the University of Vienna LaudiMaxima Prize for her dissertation.

#8802

Clare Elwell

#152005

Overall Influence

Clare Elwell is a British academic who is a professor of medical physics and director of the Near Infrared Spectroscopy Group and Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory at University College London. She has served as president of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue and the Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy.

#8803

Masakatsu G. Fujie

#75026

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

is a Japanese scientist who has played a major role in cutting-edge research in biomedical engineering. He has been responsible for many advances in the field of robotics. A longtime professor at Waseda University, he has led teams that have developed an intelligent mobile robot and a remote control manipulator, among many other devices. He has also made a significant contribution to the development of a medical treatment support system that helps in the recovery of human functions.

#8804

Robert Krasny

#173031

Overall Influence

Robert Krasny from the University of Michigan, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Division of Fluid Dynamics in 2007, for "his many achievements in advancing particle methods and tree-code algorithms to allow exceptionally precise computations of vortex dynamics, and his insightful use of the resulting methods to increase the fundamental understanding of regular and chaotic phenomena in fluid flows." In 2012 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

#8805

David Sudarsky

#175190

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Sudarsky is an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona. He is primarily known for producing the first exoplanet classification system, which is based on a series of theoretical gas-giant-atmosphere models. By modeling the physical characteristics and chemistry of their atmospheres, the appearance of gas giants is predicted.

#8806

Walter Benenson

#180851

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Walter Benenson is a university distinguished professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University. He retired in 2008, but continued to teach for another 10 years.

#8807

Piero Giorgio Bordoni

#140912

Overall Influence

1915 - 2009 (94 years)

Piero Giorgio Bordoni was an Italian physicist, who first measured the anelastic relaxation effect , named after him, due to the stress induced motion of dislocations in metals. That experiment, together with a similar one by T.S. Kê, opened the way to the study of the dynamics of dislocations in solids. Those were also the first experiments of anelasticity in solids, a branch of physics studying defects, excitations and phase transitions in condensed matter, first systematised by Clarence Zener.

#8808

Arthur H. Livermore

Arthur H. Livermore

#64302

Overall Influence

1915 - 2009 (94 years)

Arthur Hamilton Livermore was a science educator. He was educated at Reed College in Portland and in the University of Rochester in New York, where he worked on the synthesis of penicillin under Vincent du Vigneaud, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He obtained a PhD in Chemistry in 1944. He taught biochemistry at Cornell University and Reed College to 1963. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 for work in Molecular & Cellular Biology.

#8809

Titus Pankey

#171722

Overall Influence

1925 - 2003 (78 years)

Titus Pankey was an American physicist and professor whose research specialties were magnetic susceptibility and cosmology, especially supernovas. He was the first recipient of a PhD in physics from Howard University, and was one of the first 10 black recipients of a PhD in physics in the United States. He has been cited as the first to suggest that type 1a supernovae are powered by nickel-56 decay.

#8810

Tomoyuki Takahashi

#181239

Overall Influence

#8811

Chien-Peng Yuan

#181241

Overall Influence

Chien-Peng Yuan is a Taiwanese physicist. Yuan graduated from National Taiwan University and pursued doctoral study at the University of Michigan. He began teaching at Michigan State University in 1992, was appointed to a full professorship in 2004, and subsequently assumed the Wu-Ki Tung Endowed Professorship in Particle Physics in October 2017. In 2013, the American Physical Society elevated Yuan to fellow status, acknowledging him "[f]or original contributions to the theory of single top-quark production, the development of QCD resummation techniques, the global analysis of parton distribut...

#8812

Oleg Anisimov

#113052

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Oleg Aleksandrovich Anisimov is a Russian climate scientist. Doctor of Science in Geography and Professor of Physical Geography at the State Hydrological Institute , part of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia in Saint Petersburg. An expert on the impact of climate change on the Arctic region, he has acted as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

#8813

Carl-Gustav Groth

#62851

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Carl-Gustav Groth was a Swedish transplant surgeon. He studied in Colorado under the supervision of transplantation pioneer Thomas Starzl, and returned to Sweden to work at the Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, where he performed the first pancreas, liver and islet cell transplantation surgeries in Sweden.

#8814

Wolfgang Kummer

#181253

Overall Influence

#8815

Protik Majumder

#174567

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Protik "Tiku" Majumder is a physicist who is the Barclay Jermain Professor of Natural Philosophy at Williams College. He was the interim president of Williams from December 2017 to July 2018, replacing Adam Falk, who left to become president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He was replaced by Maud Mandel.

#8816

Simon Devitt

#150691

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Simon John Devitt is an Australian theoretical quantum physicist who has worked on large-scale Quantum computing architectures, Quantum network systems design, Quantum programming development and Quantum error correction. In 2022 he was appointed as a member to Australia's National Quantum Advisory Committee.

#8817

Oded Hod

#173196

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Oded Hod is an Israeli chemist. He is a full professor at the School of Chemistry of Tel Aviv University, and is the Heinemann Chair of Physical Chemistry. Education and career In 1991-1994 Hod did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University in chemistry and physics as part of the academic reserve officers' training corps . Upon completing his degree, he commenced his army service in the IAF, where he served during 1994-1998. He then moved to the Ministry of Defense, continuing his service until 2000.

#8818

Sergey Gulev

#178329

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Sergey Konstantinovich Gulev is a Russian climate scientist. He is head of the ocean-atmosphere interaction laboratory at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences and is a professor of oceanology and meteorology at Moscow State University. In 2011, he was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

#8819

Per-Edvin Persson

#120193

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Per-Edvin Persson is Director of Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, since 1991. Before that he was the Director of Science at Heureka and the Director of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies . Earlier he was a research scientist at the University of Helsinki, including a fellowship year at the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

#8820

Alfred Zehe

#132557

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Alfred Zehe is a German physicist, professor and author. After American authorities charged him with spying for the East German government in 1983, he became part of a high-profile prisoner exchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

#8821

Roger Pulwarty

#75033

Overall Influence

Roger S. Pulwarty is a scientist from Trinidad and Tobago and contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Pulwarty is the Senior Scientist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.

#8822

Paul McIntyre

#96359

Overall Influence

Paul C. McIntyre is a Canadian-American Rick and Melinda Reed Professor, Director of Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy. He served as Department Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University from 2014 to 2019. McIntyre is well known for his research in atomic layer deposition for high-k dielectrics, semiconductor/oxide interfaces, and thin film applications. He received his Sc.D. from MIT in 1993. He has won the IBM Faculty Award and was a Charles Lee Powell Foundation Scholar.

#8823

Boris Kochelaev

#177574

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Boris Ivanovich Kochelaev is a Soviet and Russian physicist and professor. Biography Kochelaev was born in Dirizhablestroy , USSR. He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Kazan University in 1957. From 1957 to 1960, Kochelaev was a post-graduate student of the Experimental and Theoretical Physics Department of Kazan University under the supervision of Semen Altshuler. He defended his candidate's dissertation in 1960 in Kharkov State University, and his doctor's dissertation in 1968. From 1968 until now Boris Kochelaev is a professor and from 1973 to 2000 is a chair of Ka...

#8824

Carlo Bellieni

#36066

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Carlo V. Bellieni is an Italian neonatologist and a bioethicist. He served as Secretary of the Bioethics Committee of the Italian Pediatrics Society. He is a member of the ethical board of the Siena Biotech research facility and the Ethical Board of the Siena University Hospital where he directs the neonatal intensive therapy unit. He follows the empirical approach in bioethics, which emphasizes realism, reason, and empathy. Bellieni authored numerous clinical research papers in international scientific journals, and several books on neonatal pain and bioethics.

#8825

Jon Gjønnes

#128356

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Jon Kjell Gjønnes was a Norwegian physicist. Career Born in Brevik, Gjønnes graduated as cand. real. from the University of Oslo in 1957, and as dr.philos. in 1967. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1982. His research contributions were mainly in the fields of x-ray diffraction, electron diffraction and electron microscopy.

#8826

Nirit Dudovich

#180105

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Nirit Dudovich is an Israeli physicist who is the Robin Chemers Neustein Professorial Chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her work considers strong field light-matter interactions and the generation of attosecond pulses. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016.

#8827

Ken Riley

#130473

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Ken Riley is a physicist. Career Ken Riley read mathematics at the University of Cambridge and proceeded to a Ph.D. there in theoretical and experimental nuclear physics. He became a research associate in elementary particle physics in Brookhaven, and then, having taken up lectureship at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, continued this research at the Rutherford Laboratory and Stanford; in particular he was involved in the experimental discovery of a number of the early baryonic resonances.

#8828

Peng Lianmao

#141247

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Peng Lianmao is a Chinese scientist and educator in the fields of nanomaterials. Education Peng was born in Yingtan, Jiangxi, in September 1962, while his ancestral home in Pingjiang County, Hunan. He received his B.S. in Physical Electronics and master's degree from Peking University in 1982 and 1983, respectively. Then he enrolled at Arizona State University where he received his Ph.D in Physics under the direction of John M. Cowley in 1988. He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Oslo and University of Oxford .

#8829

Vitaly Kocharovsky

#175657

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Vitaly Kocharovsky is a Russian-American physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University. Kocharovsky has focused his research on topics in theoretical physics, including quantum gravity, critical phenomena, superradiance, quantum optics, laser physics, semiconductor optoelectronics, wave propagation and mode coupling in inhomogeneous media, magnetospheric physics, plasma astrophysics, gamma- and radio-astronomy, and high-energy cosmic rays.

#8830

Kalman Varga

#81169

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Kalman Varga is a Hungarian-American physicist, currently at Vanderbilt University. He researches computational nanoscience, focusing on developing novel computational methods for electronic structure calculations. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was accredited to co-writing Computational Nanoscience: Applications for Molecules, Clusters, and Solids in 2011, as well as Structure and Reactions of Light Exotic Nuclei , and Stochastic Variational Approach to Quantum-Mechanical Few-Body Problems .

#8831

Jessamyn Fairfield

Jessamyn Fairfield

#177142

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Jessamyn Fairfield is an American physicist who researches biocompatible nanomaterials and neuromorphic devices at NUI Galway. Early life and education Fairfield earned a BA in physics and applied math at the University of California Berkeley in 2005, before an MSc and PhD in physics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011.

#8832

Magdalena González Sánchez

#180562

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

María Magdalena González Sánchez is a Mexican astrophysicist, nuclear physicist, researcher, and professor best known for her contributions in gamma ray research and for being the head of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment . She has published 90 articles about her field of study in indexed journals. In 2015 she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Recognition from the National Autonomous University of Mexico .

#8833

Maryam Modjaz

#181339

Overall Influence

Maryam Modjaz is a German-American astrophysicist who is a professor and Director of Equity and Inclusion at the New York University. Her research considers the death of massive stars. She was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship in 2018, which she spent at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

#8834

Charles H. Papas

#126197

Overall Influence

1918 - 2007 (89 years)

Charles Herach Papas was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer, known for his contributions to electromagnetic theory, microwaves, radiophysics, gravitational electromagnetics, astrophysics, guided waves, and remote sensing.

#8835

Elisa Riedo

#118111

Overall Influence

Elisa Riedo is a physicist and researcher known for her contributions in condensed matter physics, nanotechnology and engineering. She is the Herman F. Mark Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the director of the picoForce Lab.

#8836

Andrew Digby

#82041

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Andrew Digby is an astronomer and ecologist whose work focusses on researching and conserving New Zealand's endangered endemic birds. Career Digby has a Natural Sciences B.A. from Cambridge and a PhD in astronomy from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis assessing the formation of the galaxy through low-mass stars. He has jointly published numerous papers relating to the detection of dark matter, the luminosity of stars, and exoplanet imaging and spectroscopy. In 2003 he was appointed as the NASA Michelson Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural...

#8837

Chen Da

#167381

Overall Influence

1937 - 2016 (79 years)

Chen Da was a Chinese nuclear physicist, educator and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . Biography Chen graduated from Tsinghua University in 1963, majoring in engineering physics. He was assigned work at Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology for Chinese nuclear program, taking part in the atomic bomb test and hydrogen bomb test. Chen built China's first military level uranium hydrogen zirconium pulsed reactor. He was awarded Major General by the People's Liberation Army for his contribution in 1993 and was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. C...

#8838

Anke Kracke

#181656

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Anke Kracke is a German experimental physicist affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg . Kracke studied physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. In 2007, she began doctoral work with Klaus Blaum at MPIK. She defended her thesis, The g-factor of the valence electron bound in lithiumlike silicon 28Si11+: The most stringent test of relativistic many-electron calculations in a magnetic field, in 2013. She subsequently worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Florida State University with Edmund G. Myers.

#8839

Bruce Balcom

#181665

Overall Influence

Bruce Balcom is a Canadian material scientist and chemist, currently a Canada Research Chair at University of New Brunswick

#8840

Shane Davis

#173814

Overall Influence

Shane W. Davis is an American astrophysicist. He is an assistant professor in the department of astronomy at the University of Virginia. Davis was a senior research associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2015.

#8841

Earl H. Pritchard

#55395

Overall Influence

1907 - 1995 (88 years)

Earl H. Pritchard was an American scholar of China and one of the founders of the Association for Asian Studies and served as its president. Pritchard was born on June 5, 1907, in Pullman, Washington, where he spent his childhood on the farm of his father, Thomas Pritchard. He attended Washington State College and graduated with his B.A. in 1928. He then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where completed his M.A. in 1929. Returning to Pullman in 1930, he applied for a Rhodes Scholarship and became the second student from Washington State College to win the scholarship. He...

#8842

Kiisa Nishikawa

#173750

Overall Influence

Kiisa Nishikawa is a biomechanist, and holds the rank of Regents' Professor of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University. Research career Nishikawa is the principal investigator leading the Muscle and Motor Control Laboratory at Northern Arizona University , where her laboratory investigates muscle contraction, including the role of titin and developing bio-inspired control algorithms for motorized prostheses for lower limbs. Previously, Nishikawa's lab acquired an atomic force microscope in order to test how changes in the giant titin protein impact muscle mechanical properties . Nis...

#8843

William E. Glenn

#58930

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

William Ellis Glenn was an American inventor and Professor at Florida Atlantic University best known for his contributions to imaging technology. Glenn was awarded 136 U.S. patents, has worked as head of NASA Imaging Technology Commercial Space Center, as well as head of FAU's Imaging Technology Center and is among the most prolific commercially viable inventors in America. In 1978, the digital noise reducer invented by him, earned NYIT its first television Emmy award. Glenn directed NYIT's former Science and Technology Research Center in Florida, where he also developed his invention. The di...

#8844

Graham Kribs

#173829

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Graham Kribs is an American theoretical particle physicist at the University of Oregon. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015. Early life and education Graham Douglas Kribs was born in 1971, the son of Robert and Margaret Kribs.

#8845

Joel E. Tohline

#181485

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Joel Edward Tohline is an American astrophysicist, specializing in computer simulation of complex fluid flows in astrophysical systems. Education and career Tohline went to high school in New Orleans. He graduated in 1974 with a B.S. in physics from Centenary College of Louisiana and in 1978 with a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His thesis is entitled Fragmentation of Rotating Protostellar Clouds. As a postdoc he was from 1978 to 1980 a Willard Gibbs Instructor in Yale University's astronomy department and from 1980 to 1982 a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

#8846

Terence Meaden

#165091

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Terence Meaden is an English author who writes on archaeoastronomy, mostly focusing on the megalithic sites of Avebury, Stonehenge and the Drombeg stone circle in Cork, Ireland. He is a retired physicist with a doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Oxford and a master's degree in applied landscape archaeology also from University of Oxford. Meaden is influenced by the work of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas who wrote about the Goddess worshipping Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe".

#8847

Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn

#181773

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn is a German theoretical physicist who specializes in laser-plasma interactions at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. He published under the name Meyer until 1973. Meyer-ter-Vehn's work involved examining the physical principles of inertial fusion with lasers and heavy ion beams. In the 2000s, he dealt with relativistic laser-plasma interaction and with the formation of plasma blocks by ultra-short terawatt laser pulses for laser fusion . He also further developed the concept of the wakefield accelerators for generating extremely high electric fields by laser-induced charge separation in plasma by John M.

#8848

Hans Stephani

#174777

Overall Influence

1935 - 2003 (68 years)

Hans Stephani was a German physicist who mainly worked on the General theory of relativity. Biography Stephani obtained his master's degree at Jena in 1958 under the supervision of Gerhard Heber. He finished his PhD under Ernst Schmutzer at University of Jena and joined as lecturer there. His wife Irmtraud Stephani is a mathematician at the same university. He retired in 2000.

#8849

Joshua Shaevitz

#174153

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Joshua Shaevitz is an American biophysicist and Professor of Physics at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. He is known for his work in single-molecule biophysics, bacterial growth and motility, and animal behavior.

#8850

Deborah E. Citrin

#154205

Overall Influence

Deborah E. Citrin is an American clinician-scientist researching pre-clinical and clinical testing of radiation modifiers and the mechanisms of normal tissue injury from radiation. She is a senior investigator and deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research.

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