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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#2851

Hans-joachim Queisser

#89805

Overall Influence

#2852

Richard F. Casten

#68757

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Richard Francis Xavier Casten is an American nuclear physicist. He serves as the D. Allan Bromley Professor Emeritus of Physics at Yale University, where he was also the director of the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory from 1995 to 2008. He is known for his research in nuclear structure and radioactive nuclear beams. He is also known for Casten's triangle, which was introduced in 1981.

#2853

Pierre Sokolsky

#63399

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Pierre Vsevolod Sokolsky is an American physicist, currently a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Dean Emeritus of the University of Utah College of Science and also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

#2854

Walter Herzog

#89960

Overall Influence

#2855

Lee Young-hee

#44825

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Lee Young-hee is a South Korean physicist. He is a distinguished professor in physics and energy science at Sungkyunkwan University as a SKKU fellow. He is also director of the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics in the Institute for Basic Science . He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the cross-field category in 2018–2023.

#2856

Robert Sproull

#14496

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Robert Lamb Sproull was an American educator, physicist and US Department of Defense official. Sproull was born in Lacon, Illinois. A graduate of Deep Springs College, Sproull studied English literature at Cornell University before taking a PhD at the same university in physics. He began a promising and productive career as a physicist at Cornell and headed the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and the Materials Science Center. Sproull left Cornell to become director of ARPA, where he was a strong advocate of cooperation among academia, government, and industry to meet US scient...

#2857

Ronald Levy

#89987

Overall Influence

#2858

Stanford S. Penner

#68583

Overall Influence

1921 - 2016 (95 years)

Stanford Solomon Penner also known as Sol Penner, was a German-American scientist and engineer, a major figure in combustion physics, especially in rocket engines, and a founder of the Engineering program at University of California, San Diego. He obtained his PhD in 1946 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under Farrington Daniels and Theodore von Kármán.

#2859

Peter Sigmund

#90066

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

#2860

Russell Kulsrud

#80050

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Russell M. Kulsrud is an American physicist who specializes in plasma physics and astrophysics. Kulsrud studied at the University of Maryland where he received his bachelor's degree in 1949, and then at the University of Chicago, where he completed his master's degree in 1952 and received his doctorate from Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1954 . From 1954, he was in the Matterhorn Nuclear Fusion Project at Princeton University and subsequently at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In 1964, he became head of the theoretical department. In 1966, he and his wife Helene Kulsrud moved to Yale University where he became a professor.

#2861

Probir Roy

#61875

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Probir Roy is an Indian particle physicist and a former professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is also a senior scientist of the Indian National Science Academy at Bose Institute and a former Raja Ramanna fellow of Department of Atomic Energy at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics.

#2862

R. Keith Ellis

#75798

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Richard Keith Ellis, is a British theoretical physicist, working at the University of Durham, and a leading authority on perturbative quantum chromodynamics and collider phenomenology. Education Ellis graduated from the University of Oxford . He has held positions at Imperial College, MIT, Caltech, CERN and the University of Rome.

#2863

Albert van den Berg

Albert van den Berg

#23861

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Albert van den Berg is a Dutch physicist who works on nanotechnology-miniaturization in physics, chemistry, biology and biotechnology . Van den Berg was born in Zaandam. In 1988 he earned his PhD at the University of Twente with a thesis on chemically modified ISFETss. Then until 1993 he worked at the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique in Neuchâtel and the Institut de microtechnique at the University of NeuchâtelTAS, i.e. miniaturized systems for chemical analysisMiCSMESA+NanoNedH=63

#2864

Gennady Krasnikov

#34874

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Gennady Yakovlevich Krasnikov is a Russian scientist in the field of semiconductor physics who has been serving as the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2020. Biography Krasnikov graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics and Technology of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology in 1981. From 1981, he successively held various positions, as engineer at the Research Institute of Molecular Electronics and the Mikron plant up to the General Director of JSC NIIME and Mikron . In September 2017, he participated in the election for the president the Russian Academy of ...

#2865

Reinhard Stock

#40473

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Reinhard Stock is a German experimental physicist, specializing in heavy-ion physics. Education and career Stock studied at Heidelberg University, where he received his doctorate with thesis advisor Rudolf Bock. Stock was a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on biophysics. From 1985 until his retirement in 2004, he was a professor at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he was head of the institute for a time. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies since 2007.

#2866

Donal Bradley

#49184

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Donal Donat Conor Bradley is the Vice President for Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology , Saudi Arabia. From 2015 until 2019, he was head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division of the University of Oxford and a Professor of Engineering Science and Physics at Jesus College, Oxford. From 2006 to 2015, he was the Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London. He was the founding director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics and served as vice-provost for research at the college.

#2867

Hans R. Griem

#90204

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Hans Rudolf Griem was a German-American physicist who specialized in experimental plasma physics and spectroscopy. Early life and career Griem received his doctorate from the University of Kiel in 1954 and in the same year accepted a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Maryland to work on the physics of the upper atmosphere. He then returned to the University of Kiel for a two-year appointment dealing with high temperature physics. In 1957, he began working at the University of Maryland, first as an assistant professor in plasma physics before becoming an associate professor in 1961 and then full professor in 1963.

#2868

Hugh Osborn

#41379

Overall Influence

Hugh Osborn is a British theoretical high-energy physicist and a professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is known for his work on Conformal Field Theory and Quantum Field Theory.

#2869

James A. Isenberg

James A. Isenberg

#45194

Overall Influence

James A. Isenberg is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon. Personal life and education Isenberg was born in 1951. He became an Eagle Scout in 1966, and in 1969 graduated from Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.

#2870

Jean-Marie Souriau

Jean-Marie Souriau

#15367

Overall Influence

1922 - 2012 (90 years)

Jean-Marie Souriau was a French mathematician. He was one of the pioneers of modern symplectic geometry. Education and career Souriau started studying mathematics in 1942 at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1946 he was a research fellow of CNRS and an engineer at ONERA. His PhD thesis, defended in 1952 under the supervision of Joseph Pérès and André Lichnerowicz, was entitled "Sur la stabilité des avions" .

#2871

Bert Schroer

#67351

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Bert Schroer is a German mathematical physicist, now a visiting professor in Rio de Janeiro and an emeritus professor in Berlin, who is known for his work on algebraic quantum field theory, braid groups, infraparticles, and other issues related to quantum field theory.

#2872

Mike Disney

#63584

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Michael John Disney is an astrophysicist. He discovered the optical component of the Crab Pulsar in 1969 with John Cocke. This was the first optical pulsar ever observed. He was also one of the pioneers in the discovery of low surface brightness galaxies.

#2873

David A. Huse

#88125

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

David Alan Huse is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in statistical physics and condensed matter physics. Biography After graduating from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Huse matriculated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he graduated in 1979 with a B.S. in physics. He received in 1983 his Ph.D. from Cornell University with a thesis supervised by Michael E. Fisher. From 1983 to 1996, Huse worked in Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill. In 1996, he was appointed a professor in the physics department of Princeton University. At the Institute for Advanced Study, h...

#2874

Janice Bishop

#59802

Overall Influence

Janice Bishop is a planetary scientist known for her research into the minerals found on Mars. Education and career In 1988, Bishop earned a B.S. in chemistry and an M.S. in Applied Earth Science from Stanford University. She earned her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1994 and then was a postdoctoral associate at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin until 1997. From 1997 to 1999 she was a fellow at the National Aeronautics Space Agency Ames Research Center before becoming a research scientist at the SETI Institute. Starting in 2015 she joined the Science Council at the SETI Institute and is a...

#2875

Ray Klebesadel

#86291

Overall Influence

Ray Klebesadel is a scientist, now retired, who was a member of the gamma-ray astronomy group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that discovered cosmic gamma-ray bursts using data from the Vela satellites, which has been deployed by the United States after the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 to police the ban on nuclear tests in space. The unexplained gamma-ray flashes were first found in 1969, in data collected in 1967. Klebesadel has said that contrary to popular belief, the data was never classified. The discovery was published in 1973 as an Astrophysical Journal letter co-authored by Ian Strong and Roy Olson entitled "Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin".

#2876

Charles Elbaum

#53244

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Charles Elbaum was an American physicist. Charles Elbaum was born in Lublin, Poland to parents Chil and Hannah Elbaum. After World War II, he moved to Belgium and Paris before earning a master's and doctorate from the University of Toronto.

#2877

Anne-Marie Lagrange

#67688

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Anne-Marie Lagrange, born in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, is a French astrophysicist. Lagrange's work focuses on the research and study of extrasolar planetary systems. Lagrange is the holder of numerous scientific awards and honorary decorations, including Knight of the Legion of Honour and is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2013.

#2878

David J. Tholen

#38223

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

David James Tholen is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi. He holds a 1984 PhD from the University of Arizona, and specializes in planetary and Solar System astronomy. He is a discoverer of minor planets and known for the Tholen spectral classification scheme used on asteroids.

#2879

Ralph Pudritz

#72783

Overall Influence

Ralph E. Pudritz is a theoretical astrophysicist tenured at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is an expert in the field of astrophysical jets, particularly those involved in star formation.

#2880

Harold Craighead

#52795

Overall Influence

Harold G. Craighead is an American professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he holds the title of Charles W. Lake Professor of Engineering. Education and career Harold G. Craighead received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics, with High Honors, from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1974. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in 1980. His thesis work involved an experimental study of the optical properties and solar energy applications of metal particle composites. From 1979 until 1984 he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Device Physics Research Department at Bell Laboratories.

#2881

Robert Finkelstein

#64190

Overall Influence

1916 - 2020 (104 years)

Robert Jay Finkelstein was an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics. Finkelstein was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in March 1916. After graduation from Pittsfield High School, he matriculated in 1933 at Dartmouth College, graduating there as salutatorian in the class of 1937. He received his Ph.D. in 1941 from Harvard University with dissertation The Energy Levels of Chrome Alum. II. Magnetic Susceptibility of Cerium Ethylsulfate under the supervision of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. After completing his last doctoral examination, he went to Washington, DC to join Francis Bitter’s research group in the Navy Department.

#2882

Ofer Biham

#39914

Overall Influence

Ofer Biham is a faculty member at The Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Biham received his Ph.D. for research on quasiperiodic systems at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1988, under the supervision of David Mukamel.

#2883

Jonathan A. Jones

Jonathan A. Jones

#23904

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Jonathan A. Jones is a professor in atomic and laser physics at the University of Oxford, and a fellow and tutor in physics at Brasenose College, Oxford. Education Jones studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1985 to 1989 and St John's College, Oxford, from 1989 to 1992. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992 for research on Nuclear magnetic resonance data processing methods supervised by Peter Hore.

#2884

Franco Bassani

#64896

Overall Influence

1929 - 2008 (79 years)

Giuseppe Franco Bassani was an Italian physicist. Biography Franco Bassani graduated cum laude in physics from the University of Pavia in November 1952. After two years as a researcher at the Italian National Research Council in Milan , he moved to the United States, where until 1956 he worked with Frederick Seitz at the University of Illinois. On his return to Italy he served as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Palermo and Pavia . Five years as an Associate Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois marked a second American parentheses. Subsequently, h...

#2885

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi

#39919

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (37 years)

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi is an Indian physicist and a former child prodigy. He completed high school at the age of 9 years, earned a BSc at the age of 11 years, and a MSc at the age of 12 years from Patna Science College . In August 2009, he got his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore at the age of 21 years. In July 2010, he was offered a position as Assistant Professor on contract at IIT Bombay. His employment was terminated in 2019,. As per his interview given to BBC, this was after a long leave related to his illness.

#2886

Elspeth Garman

#46541

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Elspeth Frances Garman is professor of molecular biophysics at the University of Oxford and a former President of the British Crystallographic Association. She was also Senior Kurti Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, retiring in 2021. The "Garman limit", which is the radiation dose limit of a cryocooled protein crystal, is named after her.

#2887

Mārcis Auziņš

#37116

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Mārcis Auziņš is a Latvian physicist. From 2007 to 2015 he served as the rector of the University of Latvia. In 1998, Auziņš was also elected a member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. In 2005 he was a visiting Miller professor at University of California, Berkeley

#2888

Thomas Prince

#72687

Overall Influence

Dr. Thomas A. Prince is the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology and holds a joint appointment with Caltech’s NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a senior research scientist. Between May 2001 and June 2006, Prince was the chief scientist at JPL. He is currently the director and Allen V.C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair for the W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech.

#2889

Aron Pinczuk

#61850

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

Aron Pinczuk was an Argentine-American experimental condensed matter physicist who was professor of physics and professor of applied physics at Columbia University. He was known for his work on correlated electronic states in two dimensional systems using photoluminescence and resonant inelastic light scattering methods. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

#2890

Kathryn Moler

#21127

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Kathryn Ann Moler is an American physicist, and current dean of research at Stanford University. She received her BSc and Ph.D. from Stanford University. After working as a visiting scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1995, she held a postdoctoral position at Princeton University from 1995 to 1998. She joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1998, and became an Associate in CIFAR's Superconductivity Program in 2000. She became an associate professor at Stanford in 2002 and is currently a professor of applied physics and of Physics at Stanford. She currently works in the ...

#2891

Sudeshna Sinha

#50448

Overall Influence

Sudeshna Sinha is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. She was at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, for over a decade. She works in the field of nonlinear physics. Her work on 'chaos-based' hardware is being developed commercially by the US-based company Chaologix. Chaologix has now been acquired by ARM .

#2892

Robin Canup

#76607

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Robin M. Canup is an American astrophysicist. Her main area of research concerns the origins of planets and satellites. In 2003, Canup was awarded the Harold C. Urey Prize. In April, 2022, Canup presented the findings of the Planetary Science Decadal Survey as co-chair of the Survey Steering Committee with Philip R. Christensen.

#2893

Donald Liebenberg

#33389

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Donald Liebenberg is an American astronomer and adjunct professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Clemson University. An avowed eclipse chaser, he best is known for having traveled around the world to see 27 total solar eclipses since 1954. He is also regarded as having spent more time in totality, the darkest area within the Moon's umbra during a total solar eclipse, than anyone else alive.

#2894

Conrad Longmire

Conrad Longmire

#43302

Overall Influence

1921 - 2010 (89 years)

Conrad Lee Longmire was an American theoretical physicist who was best known as the discoverer of the mechanism behind high-altitude electromagnetic pulse. In 1961, Longmire was awarded the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award "for continued and original theoretical contributions, requiring unusual insight, to the development of nuclear weapons and the progress of plasma physics." In 2004 he was awarded the Los Alamos Medal, the nuclear laboratory's highest award.

#2895

Katherine Blundell

Katherine Blundell

#55572

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Katherine Mary Blundell is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a supernumerary research fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Previously, she held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and fellowships from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and Balliol College, Oxford.

#2896

Claude Itzykson

Claude Itzykson

#44198

Overall Influence

1938 - 1995 (57 years)

Claude Georges Itzykson, was a French theoretical physicist who worked in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Biography Separated from his parents by World War II, his father was taken to a Nazi concentration camp and Itzykson is raised in a Jewish orphanage in Maisons-Laffitte. After studying at the Lycée Condorcet Itzykson graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1959. He joined the Theoretical Physics Department of the CEA in Saclay in 1962, then headed by Claude Bloch. He spent most of his career at Saclay, except for numerous visiting positions he held throughout his working...

#2897

Sergei V. Kalinin

Sergei V. Kalinin

#66285

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Sergei V. Kalinin is a corporate fellow at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . He is also the Weston Fulton Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

#2898

David Reitze

#59646

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

David Howard Reitze is an American laser physicist who is professor of physics at the University of Florida and served as the scientific spokesman of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory experiment in 2007-2011. In August 2011, he took a leave of absence from the University of Florida to be the Executive Director of LIGO, stationed at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. He obtained his BA in 1983 from Northwestern University, his PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, and had positions at Bell Communications Research and La...

#2899

Ulrike Diebold

#42756

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Ulrike Diebold is an Austrian physicist and materials scientist who is a professor of surface science at TU Vienna. She is known for her groundbreaking research on the atomic scale geometry and electronic structure of metal-oxide surfaces.

#2900

Karin M. Rabe

#62408

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Karin M. Rabe is an American condensed matter and computational materials physicist known for her studies of materials near phase transitions, including ferroelectrics, multiferroics, and martensites. She also works on the theoretical design of new materials. She is a distinguished professor and Board of Governors Professor of Physics at Rutgers University.

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