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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#2701

James W. LaBelle

#51108

Overall Influence

James W. LaBelle is an American physicist. He received his B.S. from Stanford University in 1980, his M.S. from Cornell University in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1985. He is currently professor and former department chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and has been a professor there since 1989. Since 2010, he has held the Lois L. Rodgers Professorship.

#2702

Barbara Romanowicz

Barbara Romanowicz

#59432

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Barbara A. Romanowicz is a French geophysicist and an expert on imaging the Earth's interior. Early life Romanowicz was born in Suresnes, France. Barbara Romanowicz is the daughter of Kazimierz Romanowicz and Zofia Romanowiczowa. The first years of Barbara's life were an inspiration for Zofia Romanowiczowa's debut novel entitled Baśka and Barbara.

#2703

Daniel Charles Mattis

#86951

Overall Influence

#2704

Kuo-chu Ho

#85318

Overall Influence

1922 - 2017 (95 years)

Kuo-chu Ho was a Chinese professor of nuclear physics, known as one of the founders of theoretical physics in Nankai University. Biography In 1945, Ho graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University with a bachelor's degree, and he obtained a doctorate in physics from the University of Notre Dame in 1951. He has served as a senior researcher at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago and a professor at University of Florida.

#2705

Alicia M. Soderberg

Alicia M. Soderberg

#68425

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Alicia Margarita Soderberg is an American astrophysicist whose research focused on supernovae. She was an assistant professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

#2706

Stephen Gasiorowicz

Stephen Gasiorowicz

#77209

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Stephen George Gasiorowicz was an American theoretical physicist. He was born in Danzig in 1928 and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1952. From 1952 until 1960, Stephen was employed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, as a research staff member. In 1960 he received an offer of Associate Professorship from the Physics Department of the University of Minnesota, and in 1961 he moved to Minnesota where he stayed for the rest of his life. In 1963 he was promoted to full Professor. Gasiorowicz published over 100 papers on h...

#2707

Bruce Hapke

#84754

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Bruce William Hapke is a noted American planetary scientist, currently a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and a specialist in bidirectional reflectance spectroscopy. Career Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Hapke earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1953. He was awarded his Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1962. Hapke was a research associate at the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell University from 1960 to 1967. In 1967, he became a professor in the Department of Geology and Planetary Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

#2708

Petra Rudolf

#37432

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Petra Rudolf is a German and Italian solid state physicist. As of 2003, Rudolf has been a professor at the Materials Science Centre , University of Groningen, Netherlands. Biography Born in Munich, Rudolf moved to Italy to complete high school and to receive her MSc degree in physics at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Following, she worked at the National Surface Science Laboratory in Trieste for five years, interrupted two times to work on the newly discovered fullerenes at Bell Labs, USA. In 1995, she received her PhD in physics under the supervision of Roland Caudano at Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.

#2709

Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

#66563

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Friedrich-Karl "Friedel“ Thielemann is a German-Swiss theoretical astrophysicist. Thielemann studied at the TH Darmstadt, where he in 1976 he acquired his Diplom. In 1980 he earned his PhD under Wolfgang Hillebrandt and E. R. Hilf in nuclear astrophysics. As a post-doc he was with David Schramm and William David Arnett at the University of Chicago, William A. Fowler at Caltech, Hans Klapdor at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, am Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching and at the University of Illinois . Starting in 1986 he was Assistant Professor and from 1991 Associate Prof...

#2710

Norman Jarosik

#83636

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Norman C. Jarosik is a US astrophysicist. He has worked on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe whose observations of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation have provided significant insights into cosmology.

#2711

Gart Westerhout

Gart Westerhout

#58780

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Gart Westerhout was a Dutch-American astronomer. Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronomer in the Netherlands, specializing in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. He emigrated to the United States, became a naturalized citizen, and held a number of important scientific and management positions in academic and government institutions.

#2712

Paul Kwiat

#62483

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Paul Gregory Kwiat is an American physicist. Kwiat earned a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993, where he was advised by Raymond Chiao and authored the dissertation Nonclassical effects from spontaneous parametric down-conversion: Adventures in quantum wonderland. Kwiat worked as a postdoc with Anton Zeilinger at the University of Innsbruck for two years, then at the Los Alamos National Laboratory until 2001, when he began teaching at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign as the John Bardeen Chair in Electrical Engineering and Physics. The American Physical Societ...

#2713

Eduard Arzt

#31593

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Eduard Arzt is an Austrian physicist and materials scientist. He is the recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the highest research award of the German Research Foundation , the Acta Metallurgica Award, and the Heyn-Award, the highest award of the German Materials Society . He is a member of the German Leopoldina Academy of Sciences in Halle, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In 2020, Arzt was elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering

#2714

Luis C. Ho

#87111

Overall Influence

#2715

Edward V. Shuryak

#87112

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

#2716

James Bruce French

#43178

Overall Influence

1921 - 2002 (81 years)

James Bruce French was a Canadian and American theoretical physicist, specializing in nuclear physics. J. Bruce French received in 1942 his bachelor's degree in physics from Dalhousie University and served during WWII in the Royal Canadian Navy, performing acoustical studies related to antisubmarine warfare. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1948 with a thesis on relativistic calculation of the Lamb shift. From 1948 to 1950 French was a research associate at MIT. At the University of Rochester, he was from 1950 to 1951 a research fellow, from 1951 to 1956 an assistant professor, from 1956 to ...

#2717

Moshe Carmeli

#65906

Overall Influence

1933 - 2007 (74 years)

Moshe Carmeli was the Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University , Beer Sheva, Israel and President of the Israel Physical Society. He received his D.Sc. from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1964. He became the first full professor at BGU's new Department of Physics. He did significant theoretical work in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics, general and special relativity, gauge theory, and mathematical physics, authoring 4 books, co-authoring 4 others, and publishing 128 refereed research papers in various journals and forums, plus assorted other publications .

#2718

Maciej Konacki

#72623

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Dr. Maciej Konacki is a Polish astronomer, notable for his tentative discovery of HD 188753 Ab, a possible planet discovered in a three star system. The planet would be similar to Jupiter. Education Konacki received a Master of Science degree in astronomy in 1996 and a Ph.D. in astronomy in 2000, all at Nicolaus Copernicus University

#2719

H. J. Bernstein

#87148

Overall Influence

#2720

Paul J. Coleman

#70293

Overall Influence

1932 - 2019 (87 years)

Paul J. Coleman Jr. was an American space scientist, NASA veteran, professor of space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles and founding chairman of the Girvan Institute of Technology. Coleman was also a co-founder of JumpStartFund, an online crowdsourcing platform.

#2721

Michel Ory

#53964

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Michel Ory is a Swiss amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets. Biography Ory was born in Develier, in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. He attended school in Delémont, and at the cantonal school in Porrentruy, then studied at the University of Geneva, graduating in physics in 1990. He trained as a scientific journalist at Cedos SA in Carouge, qualifying in 1992, then undertook teacher training at the Institut pédagogique in Porrentruy, qualifying as a secondary school teacher in 1994, then becoming a physics teacher at the cantonal school in Porrentruy, a position which he continues to hold in 2012.

#2722

Aya Ishihara

#69735

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Aya Ishihara is a Japanese physicist who works as a professor of physics at Chiba University. Her research involves the search for high-energy cosmic neutrinos, including collaboration on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

#2723

Jose Juliano

#50188

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Jose O. Juliano is a Filipino physicist and chemist. Biography Jose Juliano was born on October 16, 1932 and obtained his master's degree in chemistry from the Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. from the University of California. He also has a bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of the Philippines. He worked for the American Nuclear, Physical and Chemical Societies. He was awarded the TOYM award for his participation in the nuclear physics in 1959. Since 1995 he was a Consultant of Canlubang, Industrial Estate and from 1993 to 2002 worked at the National Academy of Science and Technology.

#2724

Michael C. Malin

#33982

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Michael C. Malin is an American astronomer, space scientist, and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems. His cameras have been important scientific instruments in the exploration of Mars. Malin designed and ran the orbiting Mars camera which took over 212,000 high-resolution photos of Mars over a nine-year period. In late 2006, he and Kenneth Edgett announced photographic evidence which strongly suggested water was flowing on Mars in the present day.

#2725

Jesse Thaler

#61465

Overall Influence

Jesse Thaler is an American particle physicist who is a professor at the MIT Department of Physics. He was named director of the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions upon its creation in August 2020.

#2726

John Hasted

#31396

Overall Influence

1921 - 2002 (81 years)

John Barrett Hasted was a British physicist and folk musician. He was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the 17th of February, 1921, the son of John Ord Cobbold Hasted and Phyllis Barrett. He was a pioneer of radar development and an atomic physicist, but he was also a pioneer and mainstay of the post-war English folk music revival, a founder and champion of the skiffle movement, and a passionate advocate for both traditional and political folksong.

#2727

Sergei Kopeikin

Sergei Kopeikin

#57591

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Sergei Kopeikin is a USSR-born theoretical physicist and astronomer presently living and working in the United States, where he holds the position of Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He specializes in the theoretical and experimental study of gravity and general relativity. He is also an expert in the field of the astronomical reference frames and time metrology. His general relativistic theory of the Post-Newtonian reference frames which he had worked out along with Victor A. Brumberg, was adopted in 2000 by the resolutions of the International Astronomical Union as a standard for reduction of ground-based astronomical observation.

#2728

John W. Negele

#71943

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

John William Negele is an American theoretical nuclear physicist. Negele studied electrical engineering at Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in 1965. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 1969, under the supervision of Hans Bethe, with the dissertation The Structure of Finite Nuclei in the Local Density Approximation. He was a postdoc at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen. From 1970, he was at MIT, first as a visiting assistant professor, and then from 1979 as a professor . He was the director of the Center for Theoretical Physics...

#2729

Egidio Longo

#87429

Overall Influence

#2730

Martin Gruebele

Martin Gruebele

#53846

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Martin Gruebele is a German-born American physical chemist and biophysicist who is currently James R. Eiszner Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, Professor of Biophysics and Computational Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he is the principal investigator of the Gruebele Group.

#2731

Ward Plummer

#60725

Overall Influence

1940 - 2020 (80 years)

Earl Ward Plummer was an American physicist. His main contributions were in surface physics of metals. Plummer was a professor of physics at Louisiana State University and the University of Pennsylvania prior to that.

#2732

Bernard Bigot

#20921

Overall Influence

1950 - 2022 (72 years)

Bernard Bigot was an academic, civil servant. He served as the Director-General of the ITER organization between 2015 and 2022. He was the president of the École normale supérieure de Lyon, and director of the French Commission for Atomic Energy.

#2733

Steve Granick

#44815

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Steve Granick is an American scientist and educator. In 2023 he joined the University of Massachusetts-Amherst as the Robert Barrett Endowed Chair of Polymer Science and Engineering, with joint appointment in the Chemistry, Physics, and Chemical Engineering Departments after serving as director of the Institute for Basic Science Center for Soft and Living Matter, an interdisciplinary blue-sky research center in Ulsan, South Korea that pursues basic science research. Until 2015 he was professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U.S.

#2734

Hyron Spinrad

#66254

Overall Influence

1934 - 2015 (81 years)

Hyron Spinrad was an American astronomer. His research has ranged from the study of planet atmospheres to the evolution of galaxies. From 2010 until his death in late 2015 he was an emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.

#2735

Andrey Zayakin

#48108

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Andrey Viktorovich Zayakin is a Russian physicist, political activist and journalist. One of the founders of the volunteer community network Dissernet. Biography In 2004 graduated from the Department of Physics of the Moscow State University. In 2005 and 2007 was a trainee at the Free University of Berlin; from 2008 until 2010 worked in Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2009 at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics defended a doctoral thesis “Nonperturbative Phenomena in Quantum Field Theory in External Fields and at a Finite Temperature”. In 2011—2011 worked at the ...

#2736

Giovanni Fazio

#78921

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Giovanni Fazio is an American physicist at Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. He is an astrophysicist who has initiated and participated in multiple observation programs. Career In 1962 he joined the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. There he started a program in gamma-ray astronomy using balloon-borne and ground-based detectors, and the construction of the 10-meter optical reflector at the F. L. Whipple Observatory, Arizona, for the search of ultra-high-energy cosmic gamma-rays.

#2737

Megan Schwamb

#77248

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Megan E. Schwamb is an American astronomer and planetary scientist, and lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. Schwamb has discovered and co-discovered several trans-Neptunian objects, and is involved with Citizen science projects such as Planet Four and Planet Hunters.

#2738

Juris Upatnieks

#17344

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Juris Upatnieks is a Latvian-American physicist and inventor, and pioneer in the field of holography. Upatnieks fled the Latvia with his parents at the close of World War II, seeking asylum in Germany. In 1951 the family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school in Akron, Ohio, and studied electrical engineering at the University of Akron, where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1960. Thereafter he studied at the Institute of Science and Technology of the University of Michigan, where he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1965. From 1973 to 1993 he work...

#2739

Robert H. Williams

Robert H. Williams

#38621

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Robert H. Williams is a senior research scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute , Princeton University. He graduated from Yale University with a BS in physics in 1962, and from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD, in theoretical plasma physics, in 1967. He taught at University of Michigan, Physics Department, in 1970. In 1972, he became Chief Scientist with the Ford Foundation's Energy Policy Project.

#2740

Elizabeth Turtle

#43779

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Education Turtle earned her B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. She earned her Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1998.

#2741

David J. Wales

#33633

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

David John Wales is a professor of chemical physics in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Education Wales was educated at Newport Free Grammar School followed by the University of Cambridge where he was awarded an open scholarship to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge receiving his BA degree in 1985. He went on to complete a PhD on cluster chemistry, awarded in 1988 for research supervised by Anthony J. Stone. In 2004 he was awarded a ScD degree from Cambridge.

#2742

John Zarnecki

#19229

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Jan Charles "John" Zarnecki, is an English space science professor and researcher. Since 2013, Zarnecki has been a Director of the International Space Science Institute . Between 2004 and 2013 he was a Professor of Space Science at the Open University, having previously been a professor and researcher at the University of Kent.

#2743

Alister McLellan

#86318

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Alister George McLellan was a New Zealand mathematician and physicist. Academic career Born in Christchurch and brought up in Westport, McLellan attended Nelson College and then the University of Otago, from where he graduated with a BSc and an MSc in mathematics and science. He joined the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research doing war work and after the war went to Edinburgh to do a PhD under Max Born. His thesis was entitled The radial distribution function and its application to the properties of fluids.

#2744

Marek Żukowski

#36992

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Marek Żukowski is a Polish theoretical physicist and lecturer at the University of Gdańsk. He specializes in quantum mechanics, his area of interest in particular concerns the Bell's theorem and quantum interferometry.

#2745

Yadav Pandit

#76296

Overall Influence

Dr. Yadav Pandit is a research scholar, working in the field of Experimental Nuclear Physics. Early life and education Yadav Pandit was born in Tikuri, Pyuthan District, located in the western hills of Nepal. He is the youngest child of Bhuwaneshwar Pandit and Radhika Pandit. He was educated first at Shishu Kalyan Primary School in Tikuri and then at Janata High School Bagdula, from where he graduated S.L.C. He studied science at Tribhuvan University, from where he obtained a M.Sc., and later went to the United States for further education, earning a Ph.D. degree in Experimental Nuclear Phys...

#2746

Sebastian F. Hönig

#87520

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Sebastian Florian Hönig is a German astronomer, Professor of Observational & Computational Astrophysics in the astronomy group of the University of Southampton School of Physics & Astronomy, and discoverer of minor planets and comets.

#2747

Arthur Vick

#42685

Overall Influence

1911 - 1998 (87 years)

Sir Francis Arthur Vick was a British physicist and university administrator. Vick graduated with a degree in physics from Birmingham University in 1932 and with a PhD in solid state physics from Birmingham University in 1936.

#2748

Mike Edmunds

#62291

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Mike Edmunds FAS FInstP FLSW is a British astrophysicist, known for his research on the interpretation of the chemical composition of the Universe and the origin of interstellar dust. Education He received his undergraduate degree and his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.

#2749

Richard A. Jones

#67277

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Richard Anthony Lewis Jones FInstP FLSW is professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy at the University of Manchester having been professor of physics at the University of Sheffield until 2020.

#2750

Kára McCullough Temple

Kára McCullough Temple

#27424

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (33 years)

Kára McCullough Temple came to fame as Miss USA 2017. As Miss USA, Temple represented the United States at Miss Universe 2017, where she placed in the top ten. Prior to becoming Miss USA, Temple attended the HBCU South Carolina State University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry with a concentration in radiochemistry. After graduation Temple then worked as an emergency preparedness specialist in the United State’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. The Miss USA title allowed Temple to found Science Exploration for Kids (SE4K).

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