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Robert Rosner
1947 - Present (77 years)
Robert Rosner is an astrophysicist and founding director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, where he is the William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics. He was the director of Argonne National Laboratory from 2005 to 2009. Prior to his appointment as Argonne's director, his research was focused primarily on astrophysical fluid dynamics and plasma physics problems. Rosner is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and also sits on the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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Noel A. Clark
1940 - Present (84 years)
Noel Anthony Clark is an American physicist, university professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, and pioneer in the development of electro-optical applications of liquid crystals. Clark graduated from John Carroll University with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and a master's degree in 1965. He received his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 under George Benedek. At Harvard University, Clark was a postdoc from 1970 to 1973 and an assistant professor from 1973 to 1977. At the University of Colorado he became an associate professor in 1977 and a full professor in 1981.
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Nicholas U. Mayall
1906 - 1993 (87 years)
Nicholas Ulrich Mayall was an American observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934 to 1960, except for a brief period at MIT's Radiation Laboratory during World War II.
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Engelbert Schücking
1926 - 2015 (89 years)
Engelbert Levin Schücking , in English-language works often cited as E. L. Schucking, was a physics professor at New York University in New York City. His research interests were theoretical astrophysics, general relativity and cosmology.
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Ira B. Bernstein
1924 - Present (100 years)
Ira Borah Bernstein is an American theoretical physicist specializing in plasma physics. He was the first person to formulate the theory of electrostatic waves propagating in a magnetized plasma in 1958, which are now commonly known as Bernstein waves in plasma physics.
Go to ProfileDavid George Charlton is Professor of Particle Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK. From 2013 to 2017, he served as Spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Prior to becoming Spokesperson, he was Deputy Spokesperson for four years, and before that Physics Coordinator of ATLAS in the run-up to the start of collision data-taking.
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Matthew J. Holman
1967 - Present (57 years)
Matthew J. Holman is a Smithsonian astrophysicist and lecturer at Harvard University. Holman studied at MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1989 and his PhD in planetary science in 1994. He was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1998.
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Rodney Loudon
1934 - Present (90 years)
Professor Rodney Loudon was a British physicist, best known for his work in quantum optics. He was Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Essex. Education Loudon attended the Bury Grammar School in Manchester. He received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Oxford, where he was a member of the Brasenose College.After Oxford he undertook postdoctoral research at University of California, Berkeley
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Eugene J. Mele
1950 - Present (74 years)
Eugene John "Gene" Mele is a professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he researches quantum electric phenomena in condensed matter. Biography Mele graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1972 and obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. After working as a research assistant at the Xerox Research Center in Webster, New York, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and promoted to full professor in 1989. Since 2014 he has also been visiting faculty at Loughborough University in the United K...
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Godfrey Stafford
1920 - 2013 (93 years)
Godfrey Harry Stafford CBE, FRS , was a British physicist and directed the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories from 1969 to 1981. He went on to be a master at St Cross College, Oxford and president of the Institute of Physics. In 1950 Dr. Stafford married Helen Goldthorp Clark, an Australian biologist. He has a son and twin daughters and lived near Oxford.
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Wolfgang Baumeister
1946 - Present (78 years)
Wolfgang P. Baumeister is a German molecular biologist and biophysicist. His research has been pivotal in the development of Cryoelectron tomography. Education and career After completing his Abitur, Wolfgang Baumeister studied biology, chemistry, and physics from 1966 to 1967 at the University of Münster and from 1967 to 1969 at the University of Bonn. At the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf he was a graduate student from 1970 to 1973 and a research associate from 1973 to 1980 in the department of biophysics. He received his Promotion in 1973 and his Habilitation in 1978. From 1981 to 19...
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Noam Soker
1958 - Present (66 years)
Noam Soker is an Israeli theoretical astrophysicist. He was the chair of the physics department at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2015. Biography and career Soker was born in Israel in 1958. He spent his childhood in Kibutz Yas'ur. In 1975 he started his undergraduate studies in the department of mathematics and physics at the University of Haifa at Oranim, and completed them in 1982, in the Technion, after a three years break for service in the Israel Defense Forces.
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George K. Miley
1942 - Present (82 years)
George Kildare Miley is an Irish-Dutch astronomer. He holds a professorship at Leiden University, where he served as director of Leiden Observatory from 1996 to 2003. Biography After studying at Gonzaga College, Miley obtained his BSc in physics at University College Dublin in the years 1959–1963, going on to complete a PhD in radio astronomy at the University of Manchester in 1968. He then became a research associate and assistant scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory until 1970, when he moved to Leiden Observatory as a senior scientist.
Go to ProfileFrancisco Bezanilla is a Chilean-American scientist and professor at the University of Chicago. He is a past president of the Biophysical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Biography Raised in Santiago, Bezanilla took an early interest in science. When Chile hosted the 1962 World Cup, it was uncommon for people to own televisions, so Bezanilla and a friend began building their own television to watch the tournament. While the rudimentary TV was not completed in time for the World Cup, Bezanilla later built a better TV with commercial parts from Argentina, and Bezanilla's...
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Dean H. Kenyon
1939 - Present (85 years)
Dean H. Kenyon is Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University, a young Earth creationist, and one of the instigators of the intelligent design movement. He is the author of Biochemical Predestination.
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Laurent Nottale
1952 - Present (72 years)
Laurent Nottale is an astrophysicist, a retired director of research at CNRS, and a researcher at the Paris Observatory. He is the author and inventor of the theory of scale relativity, which aims to unify quantum physics and relativity theory.
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Gilles Fontaine
1948 - 2019 (71 years)
Gilles Fontaine was a professor of astrophysics at the Université de Montréal in Quebec, Canada. Fontaine's research interests included theoretical and observational studies of white dwarfs, sub-dwarf stars and astroseismology . In particular, he found that white dwarfs can serve as test benches for the equation of state, the coefficient of transport, and the phase transition between solid and liquid states at very high densities.
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Nia Imara
1950 - Present (74 years)
Nia Imara is an American astrophysicist, artist, and activist. Imara's scientific work deals with galactic mass, star formation, and exoplanet detection. Imara was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley and was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow in the Future Faculty Leaders program at Harvard University. In 2020, Imara joined the University of California, Santa Cruz as an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy.
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Fletcher Watson
1912 - 1997 (85 years)
Fletcher G. Watson was an American professor of science education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education , where he served as the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education . Watson was a founder and co-director of Harvard Project Physics.
Go to ProfileAkif Baha Balantekin is an American and Turkish physicist. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1975 and received a PhD from Yale University in the U.S. in 1982.
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Anthony E. Siegman
1931 - 2011 (80 years)
Anthony E. Siegman was an electrical engineer and educator at Stanford University who investigated and taught about masers and lasers. Known to almost all as Tony Siegman, he was president of the Optical Society of America [now Optica ] in 1999 and was awarded the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal in 2009.
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Chennupati Jagadish
1957 - Present (67 years)
Chennupati Jagadish , an Indian-Australian physicist and academic, is the President of the Australian Academy of Science, and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Australian National University Research School of Physics. He is head of the Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group which he established in 1990. He is also the Convener of the Australian Nanotechnology Network and Director of Australian National Fabrication Facility ACT Node.
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David S. Heeschen
1926 - 2012 (86 years)
David Sutphin Heeschen was an American radio astronomer, best known for his long and influential tenure as director of the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory during the time that radio astronomy was transformed from a hands-on approach by a few individuals building their own instruments to a discipline with staff-supported user facilities servicing often large teams of dedicated observers.
Go to ProfileAlice Kust Harding is an American astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. Early life and education Harding earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1973, and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, in 1979.
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Georg Zundel
1931 - 2007 (76 years)
Georg Zundel was a German physicist, entrepreneur, and peace politics committed philanthropist. Georg Zundel was born in 1931 as the only son of Georg Friedrich Zundel and Paula Zundel. He became a physicist and gained an international reputation especially in hydrogen bonding research. He founded companies and was always committed to agriculture and forestry. Peace politics, Georg Zundel was particularly involved through the establishment of the Berghof Foundation, Foundation for Conflict Research, for which he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2003. Zundel was married and had three children.
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Tommy Ohlsson
1973 - Present (51 years)
Tommy Ohlsson is a Swedish physicist. He is a full professor in theoretical physics with specialization in elementary particle physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, situated at the AlbaNova University Center. His research field is theoretical particle physics, particularly neutrino physics and physics beyond the so-called Standard Model. He is an author of around hundred scientific publications and one textbook . He has also written a popular science text about the theory of special relativity at Nobelprize.org.
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Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
1950 - Present (74 years)
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard is a Danish astronomer at Aarhus University in Denmark. He specializes in asteroseismology and helioseismology. He has made significant contributions to both fields, including predicting the oscillation of Sun-like stars in 1983. He is the head of "Rumudvalget" and the Stellar Astrophysics Centre supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. He is co-investigator on the Kepler mission and, with Hans Kjeldsen in Aarhus, leads the 500+ researchers in the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium . KASC is responsible for the asteroseismology component of the Kepler mission.
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Lutz Feld
1967 - Present (57 years)
Lutz Feld is a German physicist at RWTH Aachen University. Having studied physics in Bonn, Germany, Prof Lutz Feld wrote his Dissertation at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany. After being a Fellow at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland he habilitated in Freiburg , Germany. Since 2004, Feld has the title of a professor at RWTH Aachen University with the main research field particle physics.
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Vicky Kalogera
1975 - Present (49 years)
Vassiliki Kalogera is a Greek astrophysicist. She is a professor at Northwestern University and the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics . She is a leading member of the LIGO Collaboration that observed gravitational waves in 2015.
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Gottfried Landwehr
1929 - 2013 (84 years)
Gottfried Landwehr was a German physicist. Landwehr was born in Osnabrück and studied physics in Karlsruhe. After that he worked at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig. He was one of the founders of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and headed the branch office in France until 1983. From 1968 to 1999 he was professor for experimental physics in Würzburg. Klaus von Klitzing who is known for the discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect in 1980 was one of his students. On the initiative of Gottfried Landwehr the well known Centre for semiconductor physics was founded at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
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Thornton Leigh Page
1913 - 1996 (83 years)
Thornton Leigh Page was an American professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago and at Wesleyan University. He became embroiled in the controversy over unidentified flying objects after serving briefly on the Robertson Panel, a Central Intelligence Agency–sponsored committee of scientists assembled in Washington, D.C. from 14–18 January 1953 to study the available evidence on UFOs.
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Gérard Maugin
1944 - 2016 (72 years)
Gérard A. Maugin was a French engineering scientist. Maugin acquired his engineering degree in mechanical engineering in 1966 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers and he continued his studies at the school of aeronautics Sup Aéro in Paris until 1968. In 1966 he worked for the French Ministry of Defence on ballistic missiles. In 1968 he received his degree in hydrodynamics in Paris. In 1969, he earned his master's degree from Princeton University, where he graduated in 1971 . He was a NASA International Fellow between 1968 and 1970. In 1971/72 he was an officer in the French Air Force.
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Claude R. Canizares
1945 - Present (79 years)
Claude R. Canizares is an American physicist who stepped down June 30, 2015 from his post as Vice President of MIT. He remains the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT and associate director for MIT of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center.
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Norman Rostoker
1925 - 2014 (89 years)
Norman Rostoker was a Canadian plasma physicist known for being a pioneer in developing clean plasma-based fusion energy. He co-founded TAE Technologies in 1998 and held 27 U.S. Patents on plasma-based fusion accelerators.
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Roger Elliott
1928 - 2018 (90 years)
Sir Roger James Elliott was a British theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic, semiconductor, and optical properties of condensed matter. Born in Chesterfield, Elliott obtained a DPhil in mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Oxford in 1952. He was a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1952–3, then at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment until 1955, when he was appointed to a lecturership at the University of Reading. He returned to the University of Oxford in 1957, where he was the Wykeham Professor of Physics from 1974 until 1988.
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Frans Pretorius
1973 - Present (51 years)
Frans Pretorius is a South African and Canadian physicist, specializing in computer simulations in astrophysics and numerical solutions of Einstein's field equations. He is professor of physics at Princeton University and director of the Princeton Gravity Initiative.
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Barbara J. Thompson
1969 - Present (55 years)
Barbara June Thompson is an American solar physicist. She is a scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center where she researches coronal mass ejections and the dynamics of coronal structures. Thompson was the project scientist for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory mission through development and early flight.
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Gillian Gehring
1941 - Present (83 years)
Gillian Anne Gehring is a British academic physicist, and emeritus Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield. She was the second woman in the UK to become a Professor of Physics and in 2009 won the Nevill Mott Medal and Prize.
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Eberhard Bodenschatz
1959 - Present (65 years)
Eberhard Bodenschatz is a German physicist. He was born on April 22, 1959, in Rehau, Bavaria. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Bayreuth in 1989. In 1991, during his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he received a faculty position in experimental physics at Cornell University. From 1992 until 2005, during his tenure at Cornell he was a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego . In 2003 he became a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and an Adjunct Director / Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.
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Tanya Monro
1973 - Present (51 years)
Tanya Mary Monro is an Australian physicist known for her work in photonics. She has been Australia's Chief Defence Scientist since 8 March 2019. Prior to that she was the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation at the University of South Australia. She was awarded the ARC Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2013. She was the inaugural chair of photonics, the inaugural director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics and the inaugural director of the Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing , and the inaugural director of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics within the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide .
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Clint Sprott
1942 - Present (82 years)
Julien Clinton Sprott is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Biography Clint Sprott was born on 16 September 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee. He earned his bachelor's degree from MIT in 1964 and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. His professional interests are in experimental plasma physics and chaos theory.
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Sarah Bridle
2000 - Present (24 years)
Sarah Louise Bridle is a Professor of Food, Climate and Society at the University of York. She previously served as Professor of extragalactic astronomy and cosmology in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester where she applied statistical techniques to the cosmic microwave background and on the use of weak gravitational lensing in cosmology. From 2006 - 2015 she co-led weak lensing efforts with the Dark Energy Survey , was co-lead of the Euclid weak lensing working group and was Large Synoptic Survey Telescope UK Project Scientist from 2013 to 2017.
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Toshitaka Kajino
1956 - Present (68 years)
Toshitaka Kajino is a Japanese astronomer from Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. His specialty is theoretical astronomy, especially nuclear astrophysics and cosmology. Organizer of Cosmology and Nuclear Astrophysics group in the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Doctor of Science .
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Raoul Kopelman
1933 - 2023 (90 years)
Raoul Kopelman was a scientist, inventor, and the Richard Smalley Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Applied Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Biology at the University of Michigan. Amongst other accomplishments, he was well known for developing the Hoshen-Kopelman algorithm. He was also amongst the first scientists pushing to establish the field of nanotechnology.
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Enrico Schleiff
1971 - Present (53 years)
Enrico Schleiff is a German biologist and physicist, and the president of the Goethe University Frankfurt, serving since 1 January 2021. Career Early career Schleiff studied physics at the Charles University in Prague from 1990 to 1992 and at the University of Mainz from 1992 to 1995. He completed his master's thesis at the University of Basel in 1995 and then received a Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Kiel and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he completed his habilitat...
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Anamaría Font
1959 - Present (65 years)
Anamaría Font Villarroel is a Venezuelan theoretical physicist and professor of the Central University of Venezuela . Her research has been focused on models about the primordial components of matter in the context of string theory.
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Vijay Balasubramanian
1969 - Present (55 years)
Vijay Balasubramanian is a theoretical physicist and the Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted research in string theory, quantum field theory, and biophysics . He has also worked on problems in statistical inference and machine learning.
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