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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#8901

Carrie Nugent

#127198

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Carrie Nugent is an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science at Olin College. She studies near-Earth objects. She is also a popular science communicator, and is a Senior TED Fellow. The asteroid 8801 Nugent was named after her.

#8902

Tracy Northup

#155112

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Tracy E. Northup is an American physicist who works at the Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck. Her research considers the development optical cavities and trapped ions to better quantum mechanical interactions. She was awarded the 2016 Start-Preis of the Austrian Science Fund.

#8903

Richard J. Temkin

#92362

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Richard J. Temkin is a plasma physicist and researcher on plasma-heating gyrotrons and other electromagnetic devices involving high-powered microwaves or terahertz radiation. Education and career Temkin received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1966 and a Ph.D.from MIT in 1971, supervised by Benjamin Lax and Paul M. Raccah with thesis Experimental charge density of copper.

#8904

Phyllis Bolds

#171934

Overall Influence

1933 - 2018 (85 years)

Phyllis Gaynell Bolds was an American physicist who worked for the United States Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Early life and education Bolds was born the ninth of ten children in the family of Anna Y. and Albert J. Allen. She received the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Medal Award for 1947-48. She graduated as a valedictorian from Dunbar High School, part of the Dayton Public School System, in 1950. Bolds was the inaugural recipient of the Delta Sigma Theta Debutante Scholarship. She studied physics at Central State College, earning a degree in physics magna cum laude in 1954.

#8905

Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira

Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira

#152634

Overall Influence

1928 - 2021 (93 years)

Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira was a Brazilian experimental physicist, educator and scientific leader. He was awarded several prizes including the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit in the categories of Commander and Great Cross, the Conrado Wessel Prize for General Science, the Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro Prize and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

#8906

Tobias de Boer

#107158

Overall Influence

1930 - 2016 (86 years)

Pieter Cornelis Tobias de Boer was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Cornell University. His research interest were in the field of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.

#8907

S. Pathmanathan

#46628

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Professor Sivasubramaniam Pathmanathan is a Sri Lankan Tamil historian, academic, author and current chancellor of the University of Jaffna. Early life and family Pathmanathan was born on 20 March 1940 in Araly in northern Ceylon. He is the son of Sivasubramaniam, a teacher at Vaddukoddai Hindu College, and Sivapakkiyam. He was educated at Jaffna College. After school he joined the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya from where he received a BA special degree in history in 1963.

#8908

Karl Krushelnick

#182877

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Karl Krushelnick is an American plasma physicist located at the University of Michigan. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by the university's Division of Plasma Physics in 2007, for "pioneering contributions to experimental high-intensity laser plasma physics including the production of high-quality relativistic electron beams, energetic proton beams and the development of techniques to measure very large magnetic fields in intense laser-produced plasmas."

#8909

Klaas de Boer

#181596

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Klaas Sjoerds de Boer is a Dutch astronomer and astrophysicist as well as Professor at the University of Bonn. His research mainly consisted of using data obtained with satellites and from Earth bound telescopes.

#8910

Des Ball

#51461

Overall Influence

1947 - 2016 (69 years)

Desmond John Ball was an Australian academic and expert on defence and security. He was credited with successfully advising the United States against nuclear escalation in the 1970s. Background Des Ball attended the Australian National University in 1965, shifting from being a promising student in economics to security studies. He completed a PhD supervised by Hedley Bull, on the global nuclear strategies of the United States and the Soviet Union. He was based for several months in the USA at the Institute of War and Peace. He joined ANU as a lecturer in 1974, becoming head of the Strategic ...

#8911

Katharina Ribbeck

#168655

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Katharina Ribbeck is a German-American biologist. She is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is known as one of the first researchers to study how mucus impacts microbial behavior. Ribbeck investigates both the function of mucus as a barrier to pathogens such as fungi, bacteria, and viruses and how mucus can be leveraged for therapeutic purposes. She has also studied changes that cervical mucus undergoes before birth, which may lead to a novel diagnostic for the risk of preterm birth.

#8912

Gabriel Spalding

#176985

Overall Influence

Gabriel C. Spalding is an American physicist. Spalding studied physics and mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating in 1983. Seven years later, he completed a doctorate in applied physics at Harvard University. In 1996, Spalding joined the Illinois Wesleyan University faculty. In 2014, Spalding received several honors. The SPIE and American Physical Society both elected him to fellow status. The APS additionally awarded Spalding the Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction, and the American Association of Physics Teachers named him one of four recipients of its Homer L.

#8913

Ting-Kuo Lee

#182935

Overall Influence

Ting-Kuo Lee is a Taiwanese physicist. Lee earned a bachelor's degree in physics from National Taiwan University in 1971, and completed doctoral studies at Brown University in 1975. He pursued postdoctoral research at the City College of New York until 1979, then moved to the Institute for Theoretical Physics. From 1981 to 1997, he taught at Virginia Tech. Lee returned to Taiwan in 1996, as research fellow within Academia Sinica's Institute of Physics. From 1997, Lee led the National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Physics. He stepped down from the NCTS in 2003, and was named a distinguished research fellow at Academia Sinica in 2004.

#8914

Ettore Fiorini

#177506

Overall Influence

1933 - 2023 (90 years)

Ettore Fiorini was an Italian experimental particle physicist. He studied the physics of the weak interaction and was a pioneer in the field of double beta decay. He served as a professor of nuclear and subnuclear physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

#8915

Cesare Gianturco

#58934

Overall Influence

1905 - 1995 (90 years)

Cesare Gianturco was an Italian-American physician and one of the earliest contributors to the specialty of interventional radiology. After many years as the radiology chief at the Carle Clinic in Illinois and a faculty member at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Gianturco moved to Houston, where he conducted research at MD Anderson Hospital.

#8916

David Gross

#182976

Overall Influence

#8917

Eleni Diamanti

#106192

Overall Influence

Eleni Diamanti is a Greek engineer who is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research . Diamanti serves as Vice Director of the Paris Centre for Quantum Computing. She was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2018.

#8918

Klaus-Dieter Liss

#182987

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Klaus-Dieter Liss, , is a German-Australian physicist working in the field of experimental X-ray and neutron scattering and their applications. Liss research is on in-situ and real-time experiments with synchrotron and neutron radiation for the characterization of thermo-mechanical processes in metals; the investigation of phase transformations; the evolution of microstructures; and the kinetics of defects. His experimental achievements are the development of the Materials oscilloscope and the realization of the X-ray photon storage.

#8919

Vladimir Kolobov

#182993

Overall Influence

Vladimir Kolobov is an engineer with CFD Research Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to the theory and simulation of, and software development for, industrial plasma.

#8920

Bradley Alpert

#131916

Overall Influence

Bradley K. Alpert is a computational scientist at NIST. He is probably best known for co-developing fast spherical filters. His fast spherical filters were critical in the construction of the most efficient three-dimensional fast multipole methods for solving the Helmholtz equation and Maxwell's equations. Other well-known work of his includes contributions to computational methods for time-domain wave propagation, quadratures for singular integrals, and multiwavelets.

#8921

Yuji Nagata

#183076

Overall Influence

#8922

John Stewart Bell

#183081

Overall Influence

#8923

Marian Willinger

Marian Willinger

#171619

Overall Influence

Marian Doberman Willinger is an American scientist. She was a program officer at the National Institutes of Health where she expanded maternal and child health initiatives. Education Willinger completed a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences in 1976. Her dissertation was titled Studies of the fate of surface proteins during phagocytosis by rabbit polymorphonuclear neutrophils.

#8924

Terry Schalk

#182470

Overall Influence

Terry Schalk is an American physicist currently professor emeritus at University of California, Santa Cruz and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Education Schalk earned his PhD at Iowa State University in 1969.

#8925

Daniele Macuglia

#99621

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Daniele Macuglia is an Italian physicist and historian of science. He is currently assistant professor of the history of science at Peking University. Before moving to Beijing, he was a research fellow at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago.

#8926

Sarah L. Keller

#183150

Overall Influence

#8927

Virgil L. Sharpton

#54313

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Virgil L. Sharpton is the Associate Director for Science at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining the LPI in 2011, he was Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks . He is also the founder and former director of the Geographic Information Network of Alaska which provides access to university data and information services across the state.

#8928

Eugene O'Riordan

#87808

Overall Influence

Eugene O'Riordan is an author and professor at the Dublin City University School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin, Ireland. His areas of research include singularly perturbed differential equations, numerical analysis and Shishkin meshes.

#8929

Olga Boudker

#182238

Overall Influence

Olga Vladimirovna Boudker is a Russian born physicist who is a professor of physiology and biophysics at the Weill Cornell Medicine. She looks to understand the mechanisms of membrane transporters in cellular function. She was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

#8930

Colin Windsor

#176644

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Colin George Windsor FRS is a British physicist, and was Programme Area Manager, for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Life He was born in London and attended Beckenham and Penge Grammar School. He won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, earning a BA with First Class Honours in Physics, and a DPhil in 1963.

#8931

John Howes

#76347

Overall Influence

1924 - 2017 (93 years)

John Forman Howes was a Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia for over three decades. Biography Howes began his studies of the Japanese language in 1944 at the I.T.S. Naval School of Oriental Languages, and served as a translator in the general headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers Occupation of Japan. Returning to the United States, he obtained an undergraduate degree at Oberlin College, and then an MA from Columbia University with a thesis entitled "Uchimura Kanzō; a biographical sketch", followed by a 1965 Ph.D for "Japan's enigma, the young Uchimura Kanzō".

#8932

Malgorzata Dobrowolska-Furdyna

#182763

Overall Influence

Malgorzata "Margaret" Dobrowolska-Furdyna is a Polish–American physicist. As the associate dean for undergraduate studies in the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, Dobrowolska-Furdyna has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#8933

Brendan Burkett

Brendan Burkett

#120474

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Brendan John Burkett, OAM is an Australian swimmer who won five medals at four Paralympics and a silver medal at the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games. Personal Burkett was born on 7 October 1963 as one of six children in Brisbane. He grew up in the Queensland town of Tannum Sands, near Gladstone. He was the captain of his local rugby league team, and was hoping for a career in the sport; in 1984 he represented country Queensland in a rugby team that toured New Zealand.

#8934

Andy Schofield

#181234

Overall Influence

Andrew John Schofield is an academic and administrator who is the Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University. A theoretical physicist, he was previously a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Birmingham and Head of its College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. As an academic, his research focus is in the theory of correlated quantum systems, in particular non-Fermi liquids, quantum criticality and high-temperature superconductivity.

#8935

S. Samar Hasnain

#167764

Overall Influence

S. Samar Hasnain FInstP, FRSC, is the inaugural Max Perutz professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Liverpool. In 1991 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and in 2002 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1997 he became a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He became Foreign Fellows of Pakistan Academy of Sciences in 2017.

#8936

Olga Shishkina

#180915

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Olga Shishkina is a Russian physicist known for her research in fluid mechanics, including turbulence, Rayleigh–Bénard convection, and the structure and motion of boundary layers. She is a researcher in the Laboratory for Fluid Physics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany, where she leads the "Theory of Turbulent Convection" group.

#8937

Zoltán Toroczkai

#183297

Overall Influence

#8938

Jean-Baptiste Leblond

#121959

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Jean-Baptiste Leblond, born on 21 May 1957 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a materials scientist, member of the Mechanical Modelling Laboratory of the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University and professor at the same university.

#8939

Pavel Jelínek

#183303

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Pavel Jelínek is a Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists , that for the first time chemically identified individual atoms using an atomic force microscope and quantum-mechanical computation. More specifically, they were able to image surface of an alloy at atomic resolution and successfully identify tin, lead and silicon atoms on this surface.

#8940

Wei-Hua Wang

#110442

Overall Influence

Wei-Hua Wang is a Chinese physicist. Wang completed a doctorate in solid state physics at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 1993. He subsequently became a visiting scientist at the University of Göttingen between August 1994 and July 1995, then pursued postdoctoral study at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut from August 1995 to July 1997. In August 1997, Wang returned to IOPCAS. In 2013, Wang was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, recognized "[f]or significant contributions to the understanding of the physical properties of metallic glasses, in particular, t...

#8941

Adela Ringuelet

Adela Ringuelet

#174733

Overall Influence

1930 - 2023 (93 years)

Adela Emilia Ringuelet was an Argentine astrophysicist and astronomer at the Félix Aguilar Observatory in Argentina. She was a co-founder of the Argentine Astronomical Association and an active member of the International Astronomical Union , where she had been affiliated with several of its commissions. As of 2017, she was a member of IAU's Division G, "Stars and Stellar Physics". Her research includes more than 100 publications in the field of stellar spectroscopy.

#8942

Mathias Kolle

#150406

Overall Influence

Mathias Kolle is a German physicist specializing in bio-inspired optics, optoelectronics and materials science and head of the Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Photonic Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He currently holds the Rockwell Career Development Professorship and is Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT.

#8943

K.A. Padmanabhan

#133131

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Kuppuswamy Anantha Padmanabhan is an Indian academician well known for his contributions in the field of materials & metallurgical science and engineering. In particular, he is well renowned for his contributions to superplasticity. He is currently professor of eminence , Anna University, Chennai; member, Research and Innovation Advisory Board, TCS and a research advisor to TCS and Aditya Birla S&T Company. He is a former director of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and a former dean, academic research, IIT Madras, India. In 1994, he became the first Indian to receive the "Forschungspreis" of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

#8944

S. Gail Glendinning

#123683

Overall Influence

Sharon Gail Glendinning is an American experimental physicist. Glendinning completed her bachelor degree in experimental physics at Middlebury College in 1973, and graduated from Duke University seven years later with a doctorate in the same field of study. She published the dissertation Elastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Cross Sections for 10B, 11B, and 16O. Glendinning remained at Duke to conduct postdoctoral research, and subsequently worked for General Electric within the nuclear fuels division. In 1985, she joined the inertial confinement fusion program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory .

#8945

Lawrence Pinsky

#183238

Overall Influence

Lawrence Pinsky is an American physicist specializing in relativistic heavy ion physics, and currently the John & Rebecca Moores Professor at the University of Houston. Pinsky is also a licensed lawyer who deals in international patent law. He is one of the inventors of the board game Blitzkrieg. He also designed several World War II wargames.

#8946

John Pyke

#93214

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

John Richard Pyke is an Australian physicist and a former university law lecturer. In retirement he still writes about Constitutional Law. He was a Queensland Senate candidate at the 2001 and 2010 Australian Federal Election.

#8947

Natasha Holmes

#180719

Overall Influence

Natasha Holmes is a physics education researcher and the Ann S. Bowers Assistant Professor of Physics at Cornell University. She researches teaching and learning in physics and STEM fields including how students acquire knowledge, the effects of course environment on learning, and the development of scientific ways of thinking. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph in 2009 then went to UBC to get her Master's and Ph.D. by 2014 before becoming a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University and then on to a professorship at Cornell University in 2017.

#8948

Yoshisada Shimizu

#183435

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of hundreds of asteroids since 1993. An orthopaedist by profession, he is also known as an astrophotographer. The central main-belt asteroid 7300 Yoshisada, discovered by astronomer Takeshi Urata in 1992, was named in his honor. The official was published on 18 August 1997 .

#8949

Elvira Moya de Guerra

#182841

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Elvira Moya de Guerra is a Spanish theoretical nuclear physicist who became the first female full professor of physics in Spain. She is a professor emerita of physics at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research topics have included double beta decay.

#8950

Deepak Kumar

#91339

Overall Influence

1946 - 2016 (70 years)

Deepak Kumar was an Indian condensed matter physicist and a professor at the School of Physical Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Known for his research on quantum mechanics and other areas of condensed matter physics, Kumar was an elected fellow of the 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 1988.

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