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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#9051

Hai-Ping Cheng

#170490

Overall Influence

Hai-Ping Cheng is a Chinese-American physicist whose "research crosses the boundaries between many sciences, such as chemistry, materials science, and engineering". Much of her research concerns the computational simulation of nanostructures, including nanowires and nanotubes. She is also a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, with whom she is a coauthor of highly cited work on binary black holes and the gravitational waves they emit. She is a professor of physics at the University of Florida, where she directs both the Quantum Theory Project and the Center for Molecular Magnetic Quant...

#9052

Kasia Rejzner

#136417

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Katarzyna Anna Rejzner is a Polish mathematical physicist specializing in algebraic quantum field theory and the theory of renormalization, including the Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism. She works as a reader in mathematics at the University of York.

#9053

Akimasa Nakamura

#88782

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Akimasa Nakamura is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific observer of asteroids and comets, as well as a discoverer of minor planets. He has worked extensively at the Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory near Kuma, Ehime Prefecture, where he remains a staff member. His observations of asteroid brightness are well known.

#9054

Amy B. Jordan

#82434

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Amy B. Jordan is an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets who works at the University of Colorado. Career In 2002 she was part of the team which discovered , a resonant Kuiper belt object at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. She also co-discovered two main-belt asteroids. In 2005, she was a teaching assistant at the Summer Science Program, which teaches astronomy to high school students using a curriculum based on observing and calculating orbits of asteroids.

#9055

Pritam Deb

#177751

Overall Influence

Pritam Deb is an Indian physicist, nanoscientist and a professor of physics at Tezpur University. He is known for his studies on nanoscience and technology as well as the physics of materials and has published a number of articles; ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 86 of them. Besides, he has also published a book, Kinetics of Heterogeneous Solid State Processes, on nonisothermal kinetics.

#9056

Simon Connell

#183451

Overall Influence

Simon Henry Connell is a professor of physics at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He is an engineering physicist, a Founding Member of the South African participation in the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, and the Chair of the African Light Source Foundation.

#9057

Richard B. Frankel

#114946

Overall Influence

Richard B. Frankel is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. He is noted for his research on magnetotaxis and biomineralization of magnetic iron minerals in general and magnetotactic bacteria in particular. His expertise in the latter was prominently discussed in Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb . He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and took a PhD from Berkeley . Much of his career was spent at the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Cal Poly in 1988.

#9058

Renato Migliorini

#76656

Overall Influence

1926 - 2008 (82 years)

Renato Helios Migliorini was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist, biochemist and full professor of physiology at the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo. Migliorini graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo in 1949. He obtained a doctorate with his animal research work on the role of estrogens in diabetes. In 1953, he was hired as full-time instructor in the recently founded Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, where he worked until very shortly before his death at 82 years of age. He did his pos...

#9059

Michael G. Ziegler

#185070

Overall Influence

#9060

Christopher J. Hardy

#118192

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Christopher J. Hardy is an American physicist and inventor of several magnetic resonance imaging subsystem technologies for use in real time MRI and cardiac MR imaging and spectroscopy. Biography Hardy obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March, 1983. He is currently a principal scientist and Coolidge Fellow at General Electric. He developed the first graphical approach that allowed physicians to explore anatomy in real time during cardiac MRI, as opposed to viewing groups of images at a later time, and he also developed a technique that improved imaging speed.

#9061

Melissa Mather

#144182

Overall Influence

Melissa Louise Mather is an Australian physicist who is Professor in Biological Sensing and Imaging at the University of Nottingham. Her research considers the development of novel sensing techniques, including ultrasound, single molecule imaging and nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond.

#9062

Marta Sales-Pardo

#176726

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Marta Sales-Pardo is a Spanish statistical physicist, complex systems scientist, and network scientist. She is an associate professor at Rovira i Virgili University, in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She is notable for her contributions to complex networks, where she has studied both social and biochemical systems, especially the contribution of each node or individual to the overall network. Her research has earned several mentions in the Fulbright Program and the ICREA Program, among others.

#9063

Tanya Leise

#66759

Overall Influence

Tanya L. Leise was an American biomathematician specializing in the mathematical modeling of circadian rhythms and related phenomena such as jet lag and hibernation. She was a professor of mathematics at Amherst College.

#9064

Jacqueline van Gorkom

#183780

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Jacqueline Henrie͏̈tte van Gorkom is a Dutch radio astronomer and Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University. Van Gorkom is known for her contributions to the field of galaxy evolution, particularly through observations of neutral hydrogen gas.

#9065

Geoff Wilson

#40808

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson was an internationally distinguished nuclear physicist who made contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and low temperature physics. His research team achieved the lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia. He was born in Mentone, Victoria.

#9066

Claudia Fischbach

#138594

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Claudia Fischbach is a German biophysicist who is the Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. She is Director of the Cornell Physical Sciences Oncology Centre on the Physics of Cancer Metabolism.

#9067

Viv Kendon

#179715

Overall Influence

Vivien Mary Kendon is a British physicist who is Professor of Quantum Technology at the University of Strathclyde. Her research considers quantum computation and the properties of quantum walks. She is the director of the Computational Collaborative Project: Quantum Computing, which looks to develop useful applications of quantum computers.

#9068

Jean-Loup Delcroix

#120630

Overall Influence

1924 - 2003 (79 years)

Jean-Loup Delcroix was a French physicist, specializing in the physics of gases and plasmas. Biography Jean-Loup Delcroix received secondary education at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris and Lycée Champollion in Grenoble. He matriculated in 1944 at ENS Paris and graduated there in 1948 with outstanding rank in the agrégation in physics. He graduated in 1953 with a doctorate from the University of Paris. His thesis is entitled Étude des propriétés statiques des charges d'espace du type magnétron. Under the supervision of Yves Rocard, he participated in the construction and start-up of the linear accelerator at Orsay from 1952 until 1960.

#9069

Judith Hillier

#147828

Overall Influence

Judith Mary Hillier is a British physicist who is associate professor of science education at the University of Oxford. She is a lead tutor for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme in science and serves as vice president of Kellogg College, Oxford. She was awarded the Marie Curie-Sklodowska medal by the Institute of Physics in 2021 for her support of women in physics.

#9070

Laura M. Roth

#92420

Overall Influence

Laura M. Roth is an American solid state physicist, and an American Physical Society Fellow. Career Around 1960, Roth was working at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and along with Mildred Dresselhaus, she was one of only two women among approximately 1000 men. Around this time she was also encouraged and mentored by Benjamin Lax. She has also co-authored papers with Kenneth Button.

#9071

Valentin Rumyantsev

Valentin Rumyantsev

#54548

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Valentin Vital'yevich Rumyantsev was a Russian engineer who played a crucial role in Soviet space program, mainly working on robotics and controls . He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Department of Engineering, Mechanics and Control.

#9072

Noel Corngold

#102564

Overall Influence

1929 - 2022 (93 years)

Noel Robert David Corngold was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology. Biography Corngold was born in Brooklyn in 1929. He was bedridden for a year prior to college with rheumatic fever and used that sabbatical to study physics, calculus and chess before receiving his B.A. magna cum laude from Columbia College in 1950. At Columbia, he was a student of Isidor Isaac Rabi. After graduation, he received his PhD from Harvard University, where he was supervised by Nobel laureate Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. His doctoral thesis was based on his exp...

#9073

Katja Matthes

#185240

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

#9074

Satoru Otomo

#132432

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Satoru Otomo is a Japanese dentist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. According to the Minor Planet Center, he is credited with the discovery of 148 asteroids between 1991 and 1997, 15 of which were co-discoveries with Osamu Muramatsu. As of 2016, he ranks 81st place just behind Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova in the MPC's asteroid discovery listings.

#9075

Lisa Barsotti

#184957

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Lisa Barsotti is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kavli Institute. Biography She obtained her PhD from University of Pisa in 2006 on The control of the Virgo interferometer for gravitational wave detection and moved to the United States in 2007 to work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory .

#9076

Abdul Lateef A. Hussein

#74456

Overall Influence

Abdul Lateef Akanni Hussain was a Nigerian Physicist and educational administrator. He was the 6th substantive Vice-chancellor of the Lagos State University. Hussain died on 31 July 2022, at the age of 75.

#9077

Susan Ellis

#184719

Overall Influence

Susan Marian Ellis is a geophysicist based in New Zealand, who specialises in modelling the geodynamics of the Earth's crust deformation, at different scales. Ellis is a principal scientist at GNS Science and her main interests are in subduction, seismology, tectonics, crust and petrology. Ellis's current work focuses on the influence of faulting on stresses in the crust, and how this is related to geological hazard and the tectonic settings in New Zealand.

#9078

Élisabeth Guazzelli

#164007

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Élisabeth Guazzelli is a French experimental physicist whose research concerns fluid mechanics, suspensions of particles in liquids, and particle-laden flows. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes at the University of Paris. Currently, Guazzelli serves as the editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics Rapid edited by Cambridge University Press.

#9079

James Repace

#118180

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

James L. Repace is a Maryland-based biophysicist and scientific consultant known for publishing research on passive smoking. Education Repace received his B.Sc. in 1962 and his M.Sc. in 1968, both in physics and both from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

#9080

Hiroshi Abe

#185339

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Hiroshi Abe is a Japanese amateur astronomer affiliated with the Yatsuka Observatory. He is noted for numerous discoveries, including his 2007 discovery of the Nova Vulpeculae, and 28 numbered minor planets during 1993–1999.

#9081

Lan Yang

#141778

Overall Influence

Lan Yang is a Chinese-born physicist specializing in optics. Lan Yang earned her bachelor's and first master's of science degrees at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and 1999, respectively. She completed a second master's degree in materials science at the California Institute of Technology in 2000, and remained at Caltech to pursue a doctorate in applied physics, which she obtained in 2005. Lan Yang began teaching at the Washington University in St. Louis in 2007, as an assistant professor. She became an associate professor in 2012, then a full professor in 2014, as Edwin H.

#9082

Carolyn Kuranz

#180627

Overall Influence

Carolyn C. Kuranz is an American plasma physicist whose research involves the use of high-powered lasers at the National Ignition Facility both to help develop inertial confinement fusion and to study how matter behaves in conditions similar to those in shock waves in astrophysics. She is an associate professor at the University of Michigan, in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences.

#9083

Ni Weidou

#132175

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Ni Weidou is a Chinese mechanical and thermodynamical scientist and engineer. Career Ni's hometown is Zhenhai District, Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Ni entered Tsinghua University in 1951. Ni was transferred to the Bauman Moscow State Technical University of USSR and graduated in 1957. Ni obtained Candidate of Sciences degree and later honorary doctor degree from the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University.

#9084

Olival Freire Jr.

#174475

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Olival Freire Jr. is a physicist and historian of physics. He is Full Professor of Physics and History of Physics at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, former president of the Brazilian Society for the History of Science and president of the Commission for the History of Modern Physics, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.

#9085

Christine Orme

#110572

Overall Influence

Christine A. Orme is an American physicist who studies the growth and decay of materials at surfaces, especially focusing on biomineralization. She is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, working in the BioNanomaterials Group of the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate.

#9086

Amalia Coldea

#180731

Overall Influence

Amalia Ioana Coldea is a Romanian quantum physicist who is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. She was awarded the 2019 Institute of Physics Brian Pippard Prize and the 2011 EuroMagnet Prize.

#9087

Jocelyn Read

#182850

Overall Influence

Jocelyn Samantha Read is a Canadian physicist and professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton, known for her research on gravitational waves and neutron stars. She is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and is an author of research characterizing the gravitational waves caused by neutron star and black hole collisions, and using the measurements of those waves to provide observational verification of the equations of state of neutron stars.

#9088

J. H. A. Lokin

#102675

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Johannes Henricus Antonius Lokin , also known as Jan Lokin, was a Dutch professor in legal history, specialising in Roman law at the University of Groningen. Lokin studied at Leiden University and the University of Groningen and obtained his Master of Laws degree in 1967. In 1973, he graduated under Prof. H.J. Scheltema, whom he succeeded as a professor in Roman law at the University of Groningen in 1977.

#9089

Jean-Philippe Ansermet

#185468

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Jean-Philippe Ansermet is a Swiss physicist and engineer and a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His research focuses on the fabrication and properties of nanostructured materials as well as spintronics.

#9090

Evan O'Neill Kane

#80406

Overall Influence

1924 - 2006 (82 years)

Evan O'Neill Kane , known as E. O. Kane in his publications, was an American physicist who established some of the basic understanding of the theory of semiconductors that are now used in consumer and other electronics. He was one of the main developers of the k·p perturbation theory which is used to calculate band structures.

#9091

Rodney W. Johnson

#185503

Overall Influence

#9092

Robert William Pringle

#177748

Overall Influence

1920 - 1996 (76 years)

Prof Robert William Pringle OBE FRSE FRSC FIP FAPS was a 20th century Scottish physicist. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 2 May 1920 the son of Llllias Dalgleish Hair and her husband, Robert Pringle. He was educated at George Heriot's School then studied physics at the University of Edinburgh, gaining the Vans Dunlop scholarship and graduated with a BSc in 1942. After graduation he assisted in University lectures. In 1945 he took up the post of lecturer under Professor Norman Feather.

#9093

Stéphane Laurent

#185511

Overall Influence

#9094

Mario Markus

#96858

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Mario Markus is a German-Chilean physicist who worked for a long time in the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund. In addition to his scientific work, Markus has exhibited his own computer graphics, as well as written novels and poetry and translated spanish poems.

#9095

David Williams

#95688

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

David Arnold Williams is a retired British astrochemist and Emeritus Perren Professor of Astronomy at University College London. Background He was born in Nottingham the son of Unitarian minister James Arnold and Frances Barbara Williams. In 1945 the family moved to Larne, Northern Ireland where David was educated at Larne Grammar School. He entered Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland to study mathematics, physics and chemistry and was awarded a B.Sc. in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1963.

#9096

Harry W. K. Tom

#185530

Overall Influence

Harry W. K. Tom is a physicist and professor at the University of California, Riverside. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000, "[f]or pioneering contributions to our understanding of the ultrafast dynamics of surface chemical and physical reactions, particularly femtosecond laser-induced nonequilibrium phase transitions and chemical reactions."

#9097

Dylan Jones

#174014

Overall Influence

Dylan Jones is a professor of physics and atmospheric scientist at the University of Toronto. Education and Research Jones received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1990, a Masters in Applied Physics from Harvard in 1994, and a PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard in 1998. Jones' research is focused on integrating measurements of atmospheric composition with global three-dimensional models of chemistry and transport to develop a better understanding of how pollution influences the chemical and dynamical state of the atmosphere.

#9098

John C. Mallinson

John C. Mallinson

#151272

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

John C. Mallinson was a British physicist who made significant contributions to the understanding of magnetism and magnetic recording. He is perhaps best remembered for his theoretical work on structures with one-sided magnetic flux. Their use is exemplified in the Halbach array and in the familiar refrigerator magnet.

#9099

Eric Korpela

#180675

Overall Influence

Eric Korpela is a research astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, He is the director of the SETI@home project, a distributed computing project that was launched in 1999 to use individuals computers to analyze data collected in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence . Korpela notes that with modern-day mobile devices having greater capacities than personal computers did in 1999, SETI@home has developed an Android app to analyze data gathered by the Breakthrough Listen SETI project.

#9100

Elizabeth Blanton

#172341

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Elizabeth Lyon Blanton is an American astronomer whose research combines observations of galaxy clusters on a broad range of spectra including radio astronomy, X-ray astronomy, infrared astronomy, and visible-light astronomy. She is an associate professor of astronomy at Boston University, where she directs the Institute for Astrophysical Research.

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