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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#2951

James L. Elliot

#53679

Overall Influence

1943 - 2011 (68 years)

James Ludlow Elliot was an American astronomer and scientist who, as part of a team, discovered the rings around the planet Uranus. Elliot was also part of a team that observed global warming on Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.

#2952

Claudio Pellegrini

#81396

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Claudio Pellegrini is an Italian/American physics and emeritus professor at University of California, Los Angeles , known for his pioneering work on X-ray free electron lasers and collective effects in relativistic particle beams.

#2953

Lisa Kaltenegger

Lisa Kaltenegger

#69278

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Lisa Kaltenegger is an Austrian world-leading astronomer with expertise in the modeling and characterization of exoplanets and the search for life. On July 1, 2014, she was appointed Associate Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Previously, she held a joint position at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg where she was the Emmy Noether Research Group Leader for the "Super-Earths and Life" group, and at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, MA. She was appointed Lecturer in 2008 at Harvard University and 2011 at University of Heidelberg.

#2954

Gail Hanson

#48887

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Gail G. Hanson, born 22 February 1947 in Dayton, Ohio is an American experimental particle physicist. Career Hanson received her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. She spent sixteen years at SLAC, first as a research assistant and then as a permanent staff member. Whilst there, Hanson participated in the discovery of the J/psi meson and tau lepton. Her work led to the first evidence for quark jet production in electron-positron annihilation, for which she was awarded the 1996 Panofsky Prize with Roy Schwitters.

#2955

Axel Freimuth

#46755

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Axel Freimuth is a German physicist. On 1 April 2005 he succeeded the mathematician Tassilo Küpper as Rector of University of Cologne. His initial appointment was for a term of four years but this has subsequently been extended.

#2956

Kim Doochul

#59765

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Kim Doochul is a South Korean theoretical physicist. He was head of the Department of Physics, director of the BK21 Physics Research Division, and professor emeritus at Seoul National University. He was also a fellow and chairperson in the Korean Academy of Science and Technology before becoming the fifth president of Korea Institute for Advanced Study and the second president of Institute for Basic Science. He was a standing trustee with the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics and a board of Trustee member of the Korean Physical Society.

#2957

Eric Stach

#30903

Overall Influence

Eric Andrew Stach is an American materials scientist who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an elected fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Microscopy Society of America. He was also awarded the Eli F. Burton Award in 2009. He was named a "Highly Cited Researcher" in the newly established Cross-Field category in 2018.

#2958

Jordan B. Pollack

#91749

Overall Influence

#2959

Stuart Pottasch

#78853

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Stuart Pottasch was a professor at the University of Groningen and a researcher of planetary nebulae. Personal life Pottasch was born in New York City on 16 January 1932 to Max and Juliette Pottasch. His father Max was born 11 August 1894 in Germany, and arrived in the US in 1921; his mother was born in NYC in 1906. Pottasch had a sister, Suzanne, also born in 1932. Stuart assembled one of the largest collections of cacti in the Netherlands, as well as keeping and breeding parrots.

#2960

Su-Huai Wei

#91762

Overall Influence

Su-Huai Wei is a Chinese computational physicist. Wei earned a bachelor's of science degree in physics from Fudan University in 1981, and moved to the United States to pursue graduate study in the subject. After he completed his doctorate at the College of William & Mary in 1985, Wei became a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He remained on the NREL staff until returning to China for a post at the Computational Science Research Center. In 1998, while affiliated with NREL, Wei was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society "[f]or contributions to the u...

#2961

Kwang Soo Kim

#54377

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Kwang Soo Kim is a South Korean professor in chemistry, an adjunct professor in physics, and the director of Center for Superfunctional Materials , of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Chemistry from Seoul National University and also an M.S. degree in Physics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology . He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley . His research fields include Theoretical/Computational Chemistry/Physics and Experimental Nanosciences.

#2962

Franck Marchis

#58833

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Franck Marchis , astronomer and planetary scientist, is best known for his discovery and characterization of multiple asteroids, his study of Io volcanism and imaging of exoplanets, planets around other stars.

#2963

Victor Denenberg

#69878

Overall Influence

1925 - 2008 (83 years)

Victor H. Denenberg was an American developmental psychobiologist. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1953 from Purdue University, where he became assistant professor and remained through 1969. In 1969 he became a professor at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, in the newly formed program in Biobehavioral Sciences, of which he was the head from 1984 to 2000. After his retirement in 2000, he became a professor emeritus at the University of Washington. Denenberg published over 400 scholarly papers and book chapters and trained over 70 M.S. and Ph.D. students. He was an academic icon of his era.

#2964

Albert Crewe

#40980

Overall Influence

1927 - 2009 (82 years)

Albert Victor Crewe was a British-born American physicist and inventor of the modern scanning transmission electron microscope capable of taking still and motion pictures of atoms, a technology that provided new insights into atomic interaction and enabled significant advances in and had wide-reaching implications for the biomedical, semiconductor, and computing industries.

#2965

Leon Van Speybroeck

#87256

Overall Influence

1935 - 2002 (67 years)

Leon P. Van Speybroeck was an American astronomer who served as Telescope Scientist for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999. Van Speybroek designed the mirrors that made possible its spectacular X-ray images of nearby and remote celestial objects, including comets, exploding stars, jets of gas spewing from nearby black holes, and powerful quasars more than 10 billion light years from Earth. The data from Chandra prompted new discoveries about the evolution of stars and galaxies, the nature of the black holes, dark matter, and ...

#2966

Michele Vendruscolo

Michele Vendruscolo

#48993

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Michele Vendruscolo is an Italian British physicist working in the UK, noted for his theoretical and experimental work on protein folding, misfolding and aggregation. Education Vendruscolo is a graduate in physics of the University of Trieste . He received a Master of Science and a PhD in condensed matter physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher, at the Weizmann Institute, Israel with Eytan Domany as a supervisor and at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Chris Dobson.

#2967

Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

#60039

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan is an astrophysicist. He is known for predicting binary radio pulsars. Bisnovatyi-Kogan was a student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology from 1958-1964. He was a postgraduate student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics from 1964-1967.

#2968

Martin Roček

#41504

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Martin Roček is a professor of theoretical physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a member of the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. He received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1975 and 1979. He did post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge and Caltech before becoming a professor at Stony Brook University.

#2969

Ursula Keller

#90923

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Ursula Keller is a Swiss physicist. She has been a physics professor at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 2003 with a speciality in ultra-fast laser technology, an inventor and the winner of the 2018 European Inventor Award by the European Patent Office.

#2970

Adriaan van der Woude

#91862

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Adriaan van der Woude was a Dutch nuclear physicist, known as a leading expert on giant resonances. Education and career He matriculated in 1948 at the University of Groningen, where he graduated in 1954 with s M.Sc. equivalent and in 1960 with a Ph.D. His doctoral dissertation Construction and operation of betatron and cloud chamber was supervised by Hendrik "Henk" Brinkmann . Van der Woude worked from 1960 to 1963 in Brinkmann's group at the University of Groningen's Physics Laboratory. From 1963 to 1965 he was on a leave of absence from the University of Groningen and did research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on nuclear and atomic physics.

#2971

Saul Adelman

#92030

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Saul Joseph Adelman is an astronomer at The Citadel's Physics Department in Charleston, South Carolina. Adelman received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Maryland in 1966 and his PhD in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1972. He specializes in stellar astronomy. He is a co-author of Bound for the Stars: Travel in the Solar System and Beyond . In addition he is the author/co-author of 502 scholarly articles in Astronomy

#2972

Kristen Rohlfs

#65752

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Kristen Rohlfs was a professor for astrophysics. He taught astronomy at the University of Bochum from 1974 to 1995. Literature Tools of Radio Astronomy. 1986

#2973

Phyllis S. Freier

#58605

Overall Influence

1921 - 1992 (71 years)

Phyllis S. Freier was an American astrophysicist and a Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow, American Physical Society. Freier also served on NASA committees. As a graduate student she presented evidence for the existence of elements heavier than helium in cosmic radiation. Her work was published in Physical Review in 1948 with co-authors Edward J. Lofgren, Edward P. Ney, and Frank Oppenheimer.

#2974

Hermann Grimmeiss

#57139

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Hermann Grimmeiss , is a German-Swedish physicist. He became the first professor of solid-state physics at Lund University in 1965, and he held his post until his retirement in 1996. He became an important part of the Department of Physics and focused his research on electrical and photoelectric studies of semiconductor defects.

#2975

Moses H. W. Chan

#67108

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Moses Hung-Wai Chan is a Chinese-American physicist who is Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He is an alumnus of Bridgewater College and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1974 and was a postdoctoral associate at Duke University. He has been a professor at Penn State's University Park Campus since 1979.

#2976

Achilles Papapetrou

#38955

Overall Influence

1907 - 1997 (90 years)

Achille Papapetrou was a Greek theoretical physicist, who contributed to the general theory of relativity. He is known for the Mathisson–Papapetrou–Dixon equations, the Majumdar–Papapetrou solution, and the Weyl−Lewis−Papapetrou coordinates of gravity theory.

#2977

Karlina Leksono Supelli

Karlina Leksono Supelli

#30242

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Karlina Leksono Supelli is an Indonesian philosopher and astronomer. One of Indonesia's first female astronomers, she received her bachelor's degree in Astronomy at ITB and MSc in Space Science from the University College London, and completed her doctorate in Philosophy at Universitas Indonesia in 1997.

#2978

Allan Mackintosh

#81915

Overall Influence

1936 - 1995 (59 years)

Allan Roy Mackintosh, FRS was a prominent Danish physicist and a leading authority on magnetism and neutron scattering, especially in the rare-earth metals. Mackintosh was known for his key role in stimulating solid-state physics research in Denmark and for his advocacy of international collaboration. Many of his former students now occupy leading academic and industrial posts in a variety of countries. As director of the Danish Atomic Energy Research Establishment from 1971 to 1976 he was a major force in Danish science policy and a prolific contributor to the public debate about nuclear po...

#2979

David Cohen

#31220

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

David Cohen made many of the first pioneering measurements in the area of biomagnetism , although he was initially trained as a nuclear physicist. Early life and education Cohen was born of immigrant parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was raised there and earned a B.A. degree at the University of Manitoba. Then, he attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he gained a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics.

#2980

Eugene Hecht

#65736

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Eugene Hecht is an American physicist and author of a standard work in optics. Hecht studied at New York University , Rutgers University , Adelphi University . During his graduate study he worked at Radio Corporation of America. He became interested in optics in the 1960s and began writing about it in 1970, e.g., polarization. Adelphi University hired Hecht to teach and he became professor in 1978 and he retired in 2021.

#2981

Kenneth Bowles

#8669

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Kenneth L. "Ken" Bowles was an American computer scientist best known for his work in initiating and directing the UCSD Pascal project, when he was a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego .

#2982

Duília de Mello

Duília de Mello

#58275

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Duília de Mello is a Brazilian-born American astronomer. She is currently full professor in physics at the Catholic University of America and collaborates with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She has been serving as Vice Provost for Global Strategies of the Catholic University of America since September 2019. De Mello previously served as Vice Provost and Dean of Assessment and Vice Provost for Research Support of the Catholic University of America from 2016 to 2018 and 2018–2019.

#2983

D. P. Woodruff

#86333

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

David Phillip Woodruff FRS is a British physicist, professor at University of Warwick, and member of the Surface, Interface & Thin Films group. Woorduff is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, and the Woodruff Thesis prize is named in his honour. He won the Nevill Mott Medal and Prize in 2003, and Max Born Medal and Prize in 2011.

#2984

Reinhard Meinel

#67648

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Reinhard Meinel is the Head of the Relativistic Astrophysics group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Jena, Germany. In 1993 he published together with Gernot Neugebauer a complete analytical solution to the field equations of Albert Einstein's Theory of gravity in the case of a rigidly rotating disk of dust. He is internationally recognized as being one of the leading experts on the field of analytical gravity, and listed as a major contributor to general relativity.

#2985

James W. Truran

#69829

Overall Influence

1940 - 2022 (82 years)

James Wellington Truran Jr. was an American physicist, known for his research in nuclear astrophysics. Biography Truran graduated in 1961 with a bachelor's degree from Cornell University. In 1966 he received his PhD in physics from Yale University. His PhD thesis entitled Thermonuclear reactions in supernova shock waves was supervised by Alastair Cameron. As a postdoc Truran was from 1965 to 1967 a research associate at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. At the physics department of Yeshiva University he was from 1967 to 1970 an assistant professor, from 1970 to 1972 an associate professor, and from 1972 to 1973 a full professor.

#2986

Luboš Perek

#51623

Overall Influence

1919 - 2020 (101 years)

Luboš Perek was a Czech astronomer best known for his Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae co-written in 1967 with Luboš Kohoutek. He worked on the distribution of mass in the galaxy, high-velocity stars, planetary nebulae, definition of outer space, geostationary orbit, space debris, and management of outer space.

#2987

Berthold-Georg Englert

#63466

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Berthold-Georg Englert is Provost's Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore, and Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies. In 2006, he was recognized for outstanding contributions to theoretical research on quantum coherence. B.-G. Englert's principal research interests concern applications in quantum information science, but he is also known for his early work on quantum optics together with Marlan Scully at Texas A&M University.

#2988

John R. Huizenga

#39854

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

John Robert Huizenga was an American physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb and who also debunked University of Utah scientists' claim of achieving cold fusion. Early life and education John Robert Huizenga was born on a farm near Fulton, Illinois, the son of Henry and Josie Huizenga. He attended Erie High School and Morrison High School, graduating from the latter in 1940. He continued his education at Calvin College in Michigan, from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1944. He would maintain his ties to Calvin later in life, for example collaborating on fundamental nuclear research with his Calvin friend Roger Griffioen, who had gone on to become a professor there.

#2989

Philip R. Goode

#32984

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Philip R. Goode is an American theoretical physicist also working in observational astronomy and its instrumentation. He is a Distinguished Research Professor of Physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology with an H-index > 60. His career divides into five overlapping periods as follows:His earliest work in theoretical nuclear physics, 1967-1982Pioneering research in theoretical helioseismology He created, developed and directed NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research , which made NJIT one of the most important universities in the U.S. for observational solar physics, heliophysics, ...

#2990

Harvey Einbinder

#36354

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Dr. Harvey Einbinder was an American physicist, author and amateur historian. Early life Einbinder was born to Jacob B. Einbinder and Dora in New Haven, Connecticut. He had one brother, David, and one sister, Hinde.

#2991

Tekin Dereli

#34036

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Tekin Dereli is a Turkish theoretical physicist. Life and academic career He studied at Ankara Science High School and the Middle East Technical University. He was an associate professor and a Professor of Physics at Middle East Technical University ; professor at Faculty of Science at Ankara University , Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Lancaster University UK and since 2001, he is a professor at the department of physics at Koç University.

#2992

Estia J. Eichten

#85895

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Estia Joseph Eichten , is an American theoretical physicist, of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory . He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, where he was a student of Roman Jackiw's, and was associate professor of physics at Harvard before joining the Fermilab Theoretical Physics Department in 1982.

#2993

Jerome K. Percus

#83461

Overall Influence

1926 - 2021 (95 years)

Jerome Kenneth Percus was a physicist and mathematician known for important contributions to statistical physics, chemical physics, and applied mathematics. In 1958, he published with George J. Yevick a groundbreaking study on the statistical mechanics of classical liquids. They formulated an integral equation that is the foundation for several approximation methods for computing the pair correlation function, and thereby allow the derivation of thermodynamic properties from first principles.

#2994

Adolf Pfefferbaum

#92460

Overall Influence

#2995

Patterson Hume

#58715

Overall Influence

1923 - 2013 (90 years)

James Nairn Patterson "Pat" Hume was a Canadian professor and science educator who has been called "Canada's pioneer of computer programming". He was a professor of Physics and of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and he served as the second Master of Massey College from 1981 to 1988.

#2996

James Robert McConnell

#36025

Overall Influence

1915 - 1999 (84 years)

Fr. James Robert C. McConnell was an Irish Catholic priest and theoretical physicist. McConnell entered University College Dublin in 1932 and graduated in 1936 with a first-class honours master's degree in mathematics. After leaving UCD, McConnell began his study for the priesthood, entering Clonliffe College. He moved to Rome after a year and earned a B.D., B.C.L., and S.T.L. and was ordained in 1939. He was made a Doctor of Mathematical Sciences by the Royal University of Rome in 1941.

#2997

Alexander Boksenberg

#78349

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Alexander Boksenberg CBE FRS is a British scientist. He won the 1999 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for his landmark discoveries concerning the nature of active galactic nuclei, the physics of the intergalactic medium and of the interstellar gas in primordial galaxies. He is noted also for his exceptional contributions to the development of astronomical instrumentation including the Image Photon Counting System, a revolutionary electronic area detector for the detection of faint sources, which gave a major impetus to optical astronomy in the United Kingdom".

#2998

Bethany Ehlmann

Bethany Ehlmann

#69317

Overall Influence

Bethany List Ehlmann is a professor of Planetary Science at California Institute of Technology and a Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Education and early career Ehlmann was born in Southern California and raised in Tallahassee, Florida. She received her Bachelor of Arts in 2004 from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Compton Fellow. During her Sophomore year, she was awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and the Morris K. Udall Fellowship. She worked with Professor Raymond Arvidson on operations of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration rovers at ...

#2999

Abdel Nasser Tawfik

Abdel Nasser Tawfik

#53988

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Abdel Nasser Tawfik graduated from Assiut University in 1989, where he also completed his master's degree in theoretical physics before his change to the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, for the Dr.rer.Nat. in high energy physics. In 2012 Tawfik earned his Doctor of Science degree in mathematics and physics at the Uzbekistan National University. Dr. Tawfik is the Founder Director of the Egyptian Center For Theoretical Physics , the Founder Director of the World Laboratory for Cosmology And Particle Physics , and Research Director at the "ICSC – World Laboratory" in Geneva, Switzerland.

#3000

Mustapha Ishak Boushaki

#44746

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist and professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is known for his contributions to the studies of cosmic acceleration and dark energy, gravitational lensing, and testing alternatives to general relativity; as well as his authorship of Testing General Relativity in Cosmology, a review article published in Living Reviews in Relativity. He was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021 and as a fellow of the American Physical Society with the quote: "For distinguished contributions ...

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