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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#3451

Alexandru Marin

#82308

Overall Influence

1945 - 2005 (60 years)

Alexandru Adalbert "Alex" Marin was an American experimental particle physicist, a professor of physics at MIT, Boston University and Harvard University, and a researcher at CERN and JINR. Marin was born in France and arrived in Romania at 3 months, with his father Gaston Marin, who was Jewish.

#3452

John Kogut

#93318

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

John Benjamin Kogut is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in high energy physics. Kogut received in 1971 his PhD from Stanford University under James Bjorken with thesis Quantum electrodynamics at infinite momentum: applications to high energy scattering. From 1971 to 1973 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1971 to 1977 assistant professor of physics at Cornell University. For 27 years he was on the physics faculty of the Loomis Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, retiring in 2005 as professor emeritus. Since then, he h...

#3453

Yōichirō Suzuki

#87159

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Yōichirō Suzuki is a Japanese experimental particle physicist, notable for his work on neutrinos. Early life Suzuki was born and grew up in Tokyo. His father was a tailor. Career Suzuki earned his Ph.D. in physics from Kyōto University in 1979 under Kozo Miyake. After postdoctoral work at Brown and Osaka University, he was appointed associate professor at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at Tōkyō University in 1989. He was promoted to professor in 1996 and became director of the institute in 2004. Suzuki was deputy director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at Tōkyō University from 2007 until March 2018.

#3454

G. C. Anupama

#100561

Overall Influence

G. C. Anupama was the former Dean and Senior Professor , Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru. She served as president of the Astronomical Society of India , becoming the first woman to head this association of professional astronomers in India. Anupama is a member of the Indian core team which is part of the international effort to establish the thirty meter telescope in Hawaii, USA. Anupama was also the principal investigator of the project which led to the establishment of the 0.7m wide field telescope at Hanle near Leh in Ladakh, the world's ninth highest site for optical, infr...

#3455

Homer Neal

#58344

Overall Influence

1942 - 2018 (76 years)

Homer Alfred Neal was an American particle physicist and a distinguished professor at the University of Michigan. Neal was president of the American Physical Society in 2016. He was also a board member of Ford Motor Company, a council member of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and a director of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. Neal was the interim President of the University of Michigan in 1996. Neal's research group works as part of the ATLAS experiment hosted at CERN in Geneva.

#3456

Norman Kember

#34644

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Norman Frank Kember is an emeritus professor of biophysics at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and a Christian pacifist active in campaigning on issues of war and peace. As a Baptist, he is a long-standing member of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. As a conscientious objector to military service, he worked in a hospital in the early 1950s, which stimulated his interest in medical physics. He has been involved with the "Peace Zone" at the annual Greenbelt Festival.

#3457

Amir Caldeira

#77402

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Amir Ordacgi Caldeira is a Brazilian physicist. He received his bachelor's degree in 1973 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, his M.Sc. degree in 1976 from the same university, and his Ph.D. in 1980 from University of Sussex. His Ph.D. advisor was the Physics Nobel Prize winner Anthony James Leggett. He joined the faculty at Universidade Estadual de Campinas in 1980. In 1984 he did post-doctoral work at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara and at the Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory at IBM. In 1994–1995 he spent a sabbatical at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

#3458

Stefan Thurner

#25545

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Stefan Thurner is an Austrian physicist and complexity researcher. He has been professor for Science of Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna since 2009, external professor at the Santa Fe Institute since 2007, and guest professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore since 2016.

#3459

Geraldine L. Richmond

Geraldine L. Richmond

#19659

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Geraldine Lee Richmond is an American chemist and physical chemist who is serving as the Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the US Department of Energy. Richmond was confirmed to her DOE role by the United States Senate on November 5, 2021. Richmond is the Presidential Chair in Science and professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon . She conducts fundamental research to understand the chemistry and physics of complex surfaces and interfaces. These understandings are most relevant to energy production, atmospheric chemistry and remediation of the environment. Throughout her career she has worked to increase the number and success of women scientists in the U.S.

#3460

Rupamanjari Ghosh

#52226

Overall Influence

Rupamanjari Ghosh was the second Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh, India. She is also the former founding Director of School of Natural Sciences and founding Dean of Research & Graduate Studies at Shiv Nadar University, and a former Professor of physics and Dean at the School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research areas include Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Optics, Laser Physics, Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Information, Quantum Measurement and Magneto-Optics.

#3461

Sultana N. Nahar

Sultana N. Nahar

#69548

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Sultana Nurun Nahar is a Bangladeshi-American physicist. She is a research scientist in the Department of Astronomy at Ohio State University. Her research is on atomic processes of photoionization, electron-ion recombination, photoexcitation, collision. Her contributions include development of the unified method for total electron-ion recombination, theoretical spectroscopy for Breit-Pauli R-matrix method, resonant nano-plasma theranostics method for cancer treatment.

#3462

Meenakshi Wadhwa

#72639

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Meenakshi Wadhwa is a planetary scientist and educator who studies the formation and evolution of the Solar System through the analysis of planetary materials including meteorites, Moon rocks and other extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft missions. She is director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.

#3463

Maria Assumpció Català i Poch

#67356

Overall Influence

1925 - 2009 (84 years)

María Assumpció Català i Poch was a Spanish professor, mathematician, and astronomer. She taught from 1952 to 1991. She started as an assistant in the Astronomy Section of the Seminar on Mathematics in Barcelona, related to the Spanish National Research Council . Later, she worked in the Henri Poincaré Institute and she also cooperated in some projects with the special chair of Technology in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

#3464

Hans Joseef Ben Michael Bloemendal

#100678

Overall Influence

#3465

Dirk Brockmann

#36253

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Dirk Brockmann is a German physicist and Professor at the Institute for Biology at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin. Brockmann is known for his work in complex systems, complex networks, computational epidemiology, human mobility and anomalous diffusion.

#3466

Giovanna Tinetti

Giovanna Tinetti

#85775

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Giovanna Tinetti is an Italian physicist based in London. She is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University College London, who researches galactic planetary science, exoplanets and atmospheric science.

#3467

Stephen Blundell

#80641

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Stephen John Blundell is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford. He was previously head of Condensed Matter Physics at Oxford, and is also a professorial fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. His research is concerned with using muon-spin rotation and magnetoresistance techniques to study a range of organic and inorganic materials, particularly those showing interesting magnetic, superconducting, or dynamical properties.

#3468

Anzhong Wang

#94418

Overall Influence

Anzhong Wang is a theoretical physicist, specialized in gravitation, cosmology and astroparticle physics. He holds a position on the Physics faculty of Baylor University. Currently he is working on cosmology in string/M theory and the Hořava–Lifshitz gravity.

#3469

Felix Hormuth

#84700

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Felix Hormuth is a German astronomer, working at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy until 2016, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets. During his stay at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain, he has discovered many asteroids, including a Jupiter trojan and two near-Earth objects, such as the 15-meter Amor asteroid , using MPIA's 1.23-meter reflector telescope.

#3470

Tony Bell

#99858

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Anthony Raymond Bell is a British physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is a senior research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.

#3471

Joshua Bloom

#87307

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Joshua Simon Bloom is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the CTO and co-founder of the machine-learning company wise.io . He received a Bachelor of Arts in astronomy and astrophysics and physics from the Harvard College in 1996, an M.Phil from Cambridge University in 1997, and a PhD in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 2002. He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2002 to 2005. He was the chair of the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley from 2020 to 2023. His astronomy research...

#3472

Frederica Darema

#56436

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Frederica Darema is a Greek American physicist. She proposed the SPMD programming model in 1984 and Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems in 2000. She was elected IEEE Fellow in 2004. Biography Darema received her BS degree from the school of physics and mathematics of the University of Athens - Greece, and MS and Ph. D. degrees in theoretical nuclear physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of California at Davis, respectively, where she attended as a Fulbright Scholar and a distinguished scholar. After physics research associate positions at the University of P...

#3473

Maura Tombelli

#87251

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Maura Tombelli is an Italian amateur astronomer who began her training in astronomy as an observer of variable stars. She is a prolific discoverer of almost 200 minor planets, including the main-belt asteroid 7794 Sanvito, and a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers.

#3474

Ignazio Ciufolini

#72798

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Ignazio Ciufolini is an Italian physicist active in the field of gravitational physics and general relativity. Biography Ignazio Ciufolini graduated magna cum laude in 1980 at Sapienza University of Rome, and received a PhD in Physics in 1984 at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Richard Matzner.

#3475

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

#61528

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is a Spanish physicist and current Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Biography Jarillo-Herrero received in 1999 his Licenciatura in physics from the University of Valencia in Spain. Then he spent two years at the University of California, San Diego, where he received a MSc in 2001. In 2005 at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands he earned his PhD, and continued on to a postdoc. In 2006 he moved to Columbia University, where he worked as a NanoResearch Initiative Fellow. In January 2008 he joined MIT as an assistant professor of physics and received tenure.

#3476

Sheena Radford

#39675

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Sheena Elizabeth Radford FRS FMedSci is a British biophysicist, and Astbury Professor of Biophysics in the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Leeds. Radford is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Molecular Biology.

#3477

Brian Foster

#79337

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Brian Foster is a British experimental particle physicist. He is Donald H. Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics at the department of physics, University of Oxford, and formerly Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Hamburg. He was leading scientist at DESY where his research topics include new methods of acceleration, deep inelastic scattering using the ZEUS particle detector, and the International Linear Collider.

#3478

Robert P. Sharp

#49497

Overall Influence

1911 - 2004 (93 years)

Robert Phillip Sharp was an American geomorphologist and expert on the geological surfaces of the Earth and the planet Mars. Sharp served as the chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences at California Institute of Technology from 1952 to 1968. He built the modern department and especially recruited new faculty in geochemistry, tectonic geomorphology, planetary science, and field geology.

#3479

Diana Valencia

#57900

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Diana Valencia is a Colombian planetary scientist and astrophysicist. She is an associate professor of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Scarborough, and of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto.

#3480

John Vincent Atanasoff

John Vincent Atanasoff

#21640

Overall Influence

1903 - 1995 (92 years)

John Vincent Atanasoff, , was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College . Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.

#3481

Jörg Wrachtrup

#93765

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Jörg Wrachtrup is a German physicist. He is director of the 3rd Institute of Physics and the Centre for Applied Quantum Technology at Stuttgart University. He is an appointed Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. Wrachtrup is a pioneer in solid state quantum physics. Already in his PhD thesis, he carried out the first electron spin resonance experiments on single electron spins. The work was done in close collaboration with M. Orrit at the CNRS Bordeaux. To achieve the required sensitivity and selectivity, optical excitation of single molecules was combined with spin resonance techniques.

#3482

Eric Jan Mittemeijer

#100801

Overall Influence

#3483

Bart J. Currie

#100820

Overall Influence

#3484

Gerald Harris Rosen

Gerald Harris Rosen

#62826

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Gerald Rosen is an American mathematical scientist with over 280 published contributions in leading international scientific journals from 1958 to the present, in the areas of theoretical physics, mathematical biology, and aeronautical engineering. Rosen is currently the M. R. Wehr Professor Emeritus at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

#3485

Dušanka Đokić

#86373

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Dušanka Đokić-Ristanović is a former professor of theoretical physics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade. Biography Đokić performed research on theoretical physics, in particular involving canonical transformations in degenerate systems, and received her PhD degree in theoretical physics from the University of Belgrade in January 1976 with a thesis entitled "The Generalization of Dirac's Degenerate Systems Theory in Classic Field Theory". She published more than 20 articles in international journals and participated in many scientific conferences. During nearly four decades Đokić taught Theoretical mechanics and Classical physics to numerous generations of students.

#3486

Michaël Gillon

#59168

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Michaël Gillon is a Belgian astronomer and astrophysicist. His research focuses on exoplanets and he conducts his research at the University of Liège. He holds a master's degree in biochemistry and astrophysics and also a PhD in astrophysics, and completed his post-doctorate at Geneva Observatory. Co-discoverer of exoplanets such as WASP-18 b and the rings of Chariclo, he is a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics of the Department of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography and co-director of the Astrobiology Research Unit of the University of Liège . Michaël Gillon is...

#3487

Konstantin Khanin

Konstantin Khanin

#62822

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Konstantin "Kostya" Mikhailovich Khanin is a Russian mathematician and physicist. He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

#3488

Ulrich Mosel

#92740

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Ulrich Mosel is a German theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany Ulrich Mosel studied mathematics and physics at the J.W. Goethe University at Frankfurt a.M., Germany, from 1962 - 1968. He finished his studies with a degree of 'Diplom Physiker' in 1967. After that he worked with Walter Greiner and received his PhD in physics in 1968 with a thesis entitled "Investigation of collective potential energy surfaces of nuclei: superheavy nuclei". At that time he worked on a theoretical description of the structure of heavy and superheavy nuclei.

#3489

Kevin Hand

#42489

Overall Influence

Kevin Hand is an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at JPL. He is also the founder of Cosmos Education and was its president until 2007. He was working at NASA Ames when he was inspired to form Cosmos Education in 1999 after getting a grant from the Earth and Space Foundation to tour African schools to talk about how education relates to space research.

#3490

Patricia Burchat

Patricia Burchat

#94705

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Patricia Burchat is the Gabilan Professor of Physics at Stanford University who researches experimental particle physics and cosmology. She is interested in mapping dark matter in the universe, and understanding the nature of dark energy. She was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2005. In 2013 she became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#3491

Maria A. Barucci

#85458

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Maria Antonella Barucci is an Italian astronomer at the Observatory-Meudon, Paris. She is credited by the Minor Planet Center with a total of 3 minor planet discoveries she made in 1984 and 1985. Most notably is her joint discovery with R. Scott Dunbar of the near-Earth and Aten asteroid 3362 Khufu at Palomar Observatory, as well as her co-discovery of the Apollo asteroid 3752 Camillo.

#3492

Nico G. Van Kampen

#101010

Overall Influence

#3493

Duan Guangren

#94115

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Duan Guangren is a Chinese scientist specializing in control theory. Education Duan was born in Heilongjiang province in 1962. He attended Yanshan University where he received his bachelor's degree in applied mathematics in 1983. After completing his master's degree in modern control theory at Harbin Engineering University, he attended Harbin Institute of Technology where he obtained his doctor's degree in general mechanics in 1989. In October 1989 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harbin Institute of Technology.

#3494

Attila Laszlo Szabo

#101060

Overall Influence

#3495

Bernhard Philberth

#48957

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Bernhard Josef Philberth was an independent physicist, engineer and philosopher. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1972. Biography Philberth was a member of the Academy of Science of Chieti , the Academy of Sciences of Besançon, the Physical Society of Japan in Tokyo and the International Glaciological Society in London.

#3496

Masashi Hayakawa

#101068

Overall Influence

#3497

Cosmas Zachos

#34498

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Cosmas K. Zachos is a theoretical physicist. He was educated in physics at Princeton University, and did graduate work in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of John Henry Schwarz.

#3498

Richard M. Osgood Jr.

#78802

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Richard Magee Osgood Jr. was an American applied and pure physicist . He was Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Columbia University. Life and career Richard Magee Osgood Jr. was born on December 28, 1943. He began his scientific career in 1966, after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy with a bachelor's degree in 1965. He obtained a master's degree in 1968 from the Ohio State University. In 1973 he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. in physics. From 1973 to 1981, he then was on the scientific staff of MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In...

#3499

Robert Nemanich

#101114

Overall Influence

Robert John Nemanich is an American physicist. Nemanich attended the Northern Illinois University, where he obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in physics, then continued studying the subject at the University of Chicago. After completing his doctorate in 1977, Nemanich began his teaching career at North Carolina State University, then moved to Arizona State University. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993 "[f]or his contributions to the application of Raman spectroscopy to the study of atomic structure is semiconducting thin films and interfaces." In 2016, Ari...

#3500

Michael James Gaffey

#80779

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Michael James Gaffey is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra. Biography He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in geology from the University of Iowa and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in planetary science graduating in 1974. From 1974 to 1977, he worked as a Post-doc in the Planetary Astronomy Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After leaving Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he worked as a researcher at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi from 1977 to 1979 and the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics from 1979 to 1984.

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