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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#3851

Sebastian Deffner

Sebastian Deffner

#91755

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Sebastian Deffner is a German theoretical physicist and a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County . He is known for his contributions to the development of quantum thermodynamics with focus on the thermodynamics of quantum information, quantum speed limit for open systems, quantum control and shortcuts to adiabaticity.

#3852

Ivette Fuentes

#80603

Overall Influence

Ivette Fuentes is a Professor of Quantum Physics at the University of Southampton and Professor of Theoretical Quantum Optics at the University of Vienna. Her work considers fundamental quantum mechanics, quantum optics and astrophysics. She is interested in how quantum information theory can make use of relativistic effects.

#3853

Ole G. Mouritsen

#107772

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#3854

Peter Kalmus

#92617

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Peter Ignaz Paul Kalmus , is a British particle physicist, and emeritus professor of physics at Queen Mary, University of London. Early life Kalmus was born in Prague on 25 January 1933, and moved to Britain with his parents and younger brother George Kalmus in 1939. His sister Elsa was born in 1945. The family became British citizens in 1946.

#3855

Victor Pavlovich Maslov

#107791

Overall Influence

#3856

Hugh C. Jenkyns

#107871

Overall Influence

#3857

Miklos Porkolab

#96594

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Miklos Porkolab is a Hungarian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics. Early life and career In 1957, Porkolab emigrated from Hungary to Canada. He obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of British Columbia in 1963 and then his master's degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964 and 1967 respectively.

#3858

Mercedes Richards

#52055

Overall Influence

1955 - 2016 (61 years)

Mercedes Tharam Richards , née Davis, was a Jamaican astronomy and astrophysics professor. Her investigation focused on computational astrophysics, stellar astrophysics and exoplanets and brown dwarfs, and the physical dynamics of interacting binary stars systems. However, her pioneering research in the tomography of interacting binary star systems and cataclysmic variable stars to predict magnetic activity and simulate gas flow is her most known work.

#3859

Greg Timp

#61083

Overall Influence

Gregory Louis Timp is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Timp has previously worked at Bell Laboratories and the University of Illinois. He has worked with low temperature transport, nanostructure physics and, since 2000, research at the boundary between biology and nanoelectronics. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

#3860

Tomasz Robert Taylor

Tomasz Robert Taylor

#94831

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Tomasz Robert Taylor is a Polish-American theoretical physicist and faculty at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland in 1981 under the supervision of Stefan Pokorski. He is a descendant of John Taylor who originated from Fraserburgh in Scotland and emigrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth c.1676.

#3861

Masashi Kawasaki

#107974

Overall Influence

#3862

Andrew Blain

#107975

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Andrew Blain is a British astronomer, and assistant professor at California Institute of Technology. He is chairman of ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee , as well as a member of the HerMES international consortium.

#3863

Kurt Nassau

#107984

Overall Influence

#3864

Struther Arnott

#52180

Overall Influence

1934 - 2013 (79 years)

Struther Arnott was a Scottish molecular biologist and chemist who specialised in cancer research. He was a principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews. Education and career Struther Arnott was born in Larkhall, Lanarkshire, and educated at the Hamilton Academy where in 1952 he received the academy's gold medal for general scholarship and silver medal in chemistry and in mathematics, and from which school he won 5th place overall and 1st science place in the University of Glasgow Open Bursary Competition, 1952.

#3865

Hansjörg Dittus

#108013

Overall Influence

Hansjörg Dittus is a German physicist, affiliated with the German Aerospace Center as director of the Institute of Space Systems and executive board member for Space Research and Technology. His fields of expertise are gravitational physics, metrology, inertial sensors. He is involved in many space-based experiments aimed at testing foundational issues of gravitational interaction. He collaborates with the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen.

#3866

William G. Hoover

#38776

Overall Influence

William Graham Hoover is an American computational physicist. He is best known for creating the Nose–Hoover method in molecular dynamics. Selected publications External links Personal website

#3867

Arkady S. Pikovsky

#108031

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#3868

Stephen Hsu

#65562

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Stephen Dao Hui Hsu is an American physicist, who has previously worked as a tech executive and a university administrator. Early life and education Hsu was born and raised in Ames, Iowa. His father Cheng Ting Hsu , who was born in Wenling, Zhejiang, in what was then the Republic of China, was a professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University in Ames from 1958 to 1989. Stephen Hsu's mother was also originally from China, and Hsu had a grandfather who served as a general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Chinese Kuomintang government. At age 12, Hsu took his first college c...

#3869

Freimut Börngen

#30851

Overall Influence

1930 - 2021 (91 years)

Freimut Börngen was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets. A few sources give his first name wrongly as "Freimuth". The Minor Planet Center credits him as F. Borngen. He studied galaxies with the Schmidt telescope at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany. In 1995 he retired, but continued to work as a freelancer for the observatory. As a by-product of his work, he discovered numerous asteroids . The research on asteroids had to be done in his spare time, as the search for small objects was not considered prestigious enough by the GDR research managers.

#3870

Ma Chung-pei

#72089

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Ma Chung-pei is an astrophysicist and cosmologist. She is the Judy Chandler Webb Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. She led the teams that discovered several of largest known black holes from 2011 to 2016.

#3871

Catherine Heymans

Catherine Heymans

#67106

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Catherine Heymans is a British astrophysicist, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and a professor at the University of Edinburgh based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Early life Heymans was born and grew up in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and educated at Hitchin Girls' School.

#3872

Anne Barbara Underhill

#86425

Overall Influence

1920 - 2003 (83 years)

Anne Barbara Underhill was a Canadian astrophysicist. She is most widely known for her work on early-type stars and was considered one of the world's leading experts in the field. During her lifetime she received many awards for her contributions to astronomy and astrophysics.

#3873

JJ Eldridge

#85694

Overall Influence

JJ Eldridge is a theoretical astrophysicist based in New Zealand. Eldridge is the head of the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland and co-author of The Structure And Evolution Of Stars.

#3874

Jürg M. Ed Fröhlich

#108174

Overall Influence

#3875

Don Winget

#105640

Overall Influence

Don E. Winget is an American astronomer and astrophysicist who studies white dwarf stars. He is the Harlan J. Smith Centennial Professor in Astronomy and a university distinguished teaching professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

#3876

S. Peter Rosen

#105290

Overall Influence

1933 - 2006 (73 years)

Simon Peter Rosen was an American theoretical particle physicist, known for his work on beta decay and neutrino oscillation. Career Rosen was born in London, England in 1933 and was educated at Leeds Central High School and Roundhay School before matriculating at Merton College, Oxford in 1951, where he read mathematics.

#3877

Viola Priesemann

#41590

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Viola Priesemann is a German physicist and computational neuroscientist. One of her research priorities is to explore how the human brain organizes its neuronal capacities, to enable meaningful information processing.

#3878

James F. Gibbons

#46597

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

James F. Gibbons is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator. He is credited with starting the semiconductor device fabrication laboratory at Stanford University that enabled the semiconductor industry and created Silicon Valley.

#3879

Feng Duan

#69924

Overall Influence

1923 - 2020 (97 years)

Feng Duan was a physicist of China, an expert in solid-state physics. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a delegate to the 6th, 7th and 8th National People's Congress. Etymology Because he was born before the Dragon Boat Festival , so his father named him "Duan".

#3880

Victoria A. Bloomfield

#108362

Overall Influence

#3881

Heinrich Hora

#102306

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Heinrich Hora is a German-Australian theoretical physicist who made contributions to solid state physics, optical properties of plasma with relativistic and quantum effects and nonlinear dynamics with applications of lasers for producing nuclear fusion energy. He lives in Sydney where he is an emeritus professor at the University of New South Wales and a former vice-president of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

#3882

Eberhard K. U. Gross

#108393

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

#3883

Moshe Shapiro

#85226

Overall Influence

1944 - 2013 (69 years)

Moshe Shapiro was a chemist and physicist at the University of British Columbia. Research Shapiro's research focused on coherent control, laser catalysis, quantum computing, transition state spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and other areas.

#3884

Oleg Jardetzky

#108457

Overall Influence

#3885

James H. Stith

#51044

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

James H. Stith is an American physicist and educator. He is known for his influential roles in multiple scientific societies. He is the former vice president of the Physics Resource Center at the American Institute of Physics, a past president of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and a past president of the National Society of Black Physicists.

#3886

Charles Howard Henry

#108505

Overall Influence

#3887

Guillermo Gonzalez

#25017

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Guillermo Gonzalez is an astronomer, a proponent of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design, and a research scientist at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. He is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, considered the hub of the intelligent design movement, and a fellow with the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, which also promotes intelligent design.

#3888

Jennifer Anne Thomas

#35158

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jennifer Anne Thomas, , is a British experimental particle physicist and professor at University College London. She has been a pioneer in the development of particle detectors, and the recipient of the Michael Faraday medal and prize in 2018 for her "outstanding investigations into the physics of neutrino oscillations".

#3889

Leonard Feldman

#87603

Overall Influence

Leonard Cecil Feldman is an American materials physicist. He gained his B.A. degree in 1961 from Drew University and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1967. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, working on semiconductor materials physics. In 1996 he assumed the position of Stevenson Professor of Physics at Vanderbilt University and Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

#3890

Mikhail Eremets

Mikhail Eremets

#71240

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Mikhail Ivanovich Eremets is an experimentalist in high pressure physics, chemistry and materials science. He is particularly known for his research on superconductivity, having discovered the highest critical temperature of 250 K for superconductivity in lanthanum hydride under high pressures. Part of his research contains exotic manifestations of materials such as conductive hydrogen, polymeric nitrogen and transparent sodium.

#3891

Viktor Matveev

#85387

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Viktor Anatolievich Matveev is a Russian theoretical physicist, director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences who has made fundamental contributions to areas of Particle physics, Theoretical Physics Mathematical Physics, Quantum field theory and High energy physics.

#3892

Alexander Bradshaw

#61901

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Alexander Marian Bradshaw is a British physicist. He was scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, from 1999 to 2008. He earned a PhD from University of London in 1969, and habilitation from Technical University Munich in 1974. He is also notable for his work with D. Phil Woodruff, on photoelectron diffraction.

#3893

Hartmut Zohm

#90830

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Hartmut Zohm is a German plasma physicist who is known for his work on the ASDEX Upgrade machine. He received the 2014 John Dawson Award and the 2016 Hannes Alfvén Prize for successfully demonstrating that neoclassical tearing modes in tokamaks can be stabilized by electron cyclotron resonance heating, which is an important design consideration for pushing the performance limit of the ITER.

#3894

David Avison

#87327

Overall Influence

1937 - 2004 (67 years)

David Avison was an American photographer and physicist, best known for his use of a wide angle lens to capture nature, crowds, and portraits. Focused on panoramic photography, Avison photographed Chicago's urban landscapes, turning to Chicago's beaches for his contribution to the documentary project Changing Chicago . Avison spent the bulk of his photographic career in Chicago before moving to Boston in 1997.

#3895

Archie Roy

#41922

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

Archie Edmiston Roy FRSE, FRAS was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow. Career Professor Archie Edmiston Roy, was educated at Hillhead High School and the University of Glasgow. He was married to Frances with three sons; Dr. Archie W N Roy, Ian Roy and Dr. David Roy; and two grandchildren David and Fraser.

#3896

Leonard Searle

#88363

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Leonard Searle was an English-born American astronomer who worked on theories of the Big Bang. He was born in Mitcham, a suburb of London, and studied at St Andrews in Scotland and Princeton in New Jersey. After receiving his doctorate he started working at the University of Toronto in 1953, leaving in 1960 for the California Institute of Technology. In 1963 he moved to Australia for a post at the Mount Stromlo Observatory, before settling finally at the Carnegie observatories in Pasadena, California, in 1968. In 1989 he became director of the Carnegie Observatories. In 1996 University of War...

#3897

Francisco José Ynduráin

Francisco José Ynduráin

#60737

Overall Influence

1940 - 2008 (68 years)

Francisco José Ynduráin Muñoz was a Spanish theoretical physicist. He founded the particle physics research group that became the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he was a Professor. He was described by his colleagues as "a scientist that always searched for excellence in research".

#3898

Aruna Dhathathreyan

#67034

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Aruna dhathathreyanis a Professor and Emeritus scientist at CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India. Her fields of work and research include biophysics, biophysical chemistry, and surface sciences.

#3899

Yuri Trushin

#66893

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Yuri Vladimirovich Trushin is Russian physicist and professor of Theoretical Physics of semiconductors. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and has been recognized as an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.

#3900

Gretchen Kalonji

#33043

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Gretchen Lynn Kalonji is an American materials scientist and academic administrator. She is dean of Sichuan University-Hong Kong Polytechnic University Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction. Kalonji was previously the assistant director-general for natural sciences at UNESCO. She was the Kyocera Professor of Materials Science at University of Washington and an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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