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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#3901

Wojciech Królikowski

#83501

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

Wojciech Królikowski was a Polish theoretical physicist, specialized in the theory of elementary particles and quantum field theory, retired professor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Warsaw, member of the Polish Academy of Science.

#3902

Eric Agol

#72311

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Eric Agol is an American astronomer and astrophysicist who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. Career Agol is a professor and astrophysicist at the University of Washington in the Department of Astronomy. He obtained a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley in 1992 and a PhD in Physics from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997 with Omer Blaes. He was awarded a Chandra Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000, which he took to Caltech. He arrived at the University of Washington in 2003 as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to the rank of full Professor in 2014.

#3903

James Dunlop

#97696

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

James Scott Dunlop is a Scottish astronomer and academic. He is Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the Institute for Astronomy, an institute within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.

#3904

Bahram Jalali

#93624

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Bahram Jalali is a professor and Northrop Grumman Opto-Electric Chair of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, mainly working in physical and wave electronics. He is also a published author of 10 books; the highest held book is in 125 libraries.

#3905

Guyford Stever

#37775

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Horton Guyford Stever was an American administrator, physicist, educator, and engineer. He was a director of the National Science Foundation . Biography Stever was raised in Corning, New York, principally by his maternal grandmother. He played football in high school. He graduated from Colgate University with an undergraduate degree in physics and then from California Institute of Technology in 1941 with a PhD in physics. He joined the staff of the radiation lab at MIT. In 1942 he began serving the military as a civilian scientific liaison officer based in London, England until the end of World War II.

#3906

Edward J. Hoffman

#37843

Overall Influence

1942 - 2004 (62 years)

Edward Joseph Hoffman helped invent the first human PET scanner, a commonly used whole-body scanning procedure for detecting diseases like cancer. Hoffman, with Michel Ter-Pogossian and Michael E. Phelps, developed the Positron Emission Tomography scanner in 1973.

#3907

Baruch Barzel

#45912

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Baruch Barzel is an Israeli physicist and applied mathematician at Bar-Ilan University, a member of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center and of the Bar-Ilan Data Science Institute. His main research areas are statistical physics, complex systems, nonlinear dynamics and network science.

#3908

Cho Zang-hee

#46277

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Zang-Hee Cho is a Korean neuroscientist who developed the first Ring-PET scanner and the scintillation detector BGO. More recently, Cho developed the first PET-MRI fusion molecular imaging device for neuro-molecular imaging.

#3909

Artie P. Hatzes

#93693

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Artie P. Hatzes is an American astronomer. He is a professor at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and director of the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory . Hatzes is a pioneer in the search of extrasolar planets and is working on the COROT space mission. His achievements have included discovering the extrasolar planets Pollux b, Epsilon Eridani b and HD 13189 companion.

#3910

Renu Malhotra

#86682

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Renu Malhotra is an American planetary scientist from India, known for using the orbital resonance between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the giant planets and to predict the existence of Plutinos in resonance with Neptune. The asteroid 6698 Malhotra was named for her on 14 December 1997 . She is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the co-discovery of , a trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt.

#3911

Sarah Ballard

#95109

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Sarah Ballard is an American astronomer who is a professor at the University of Florida. She has been a Torres Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a L'Oreal Fellow, and a NASA Carl Sagan Fellow.

#3912

Antonio Frontera

#108841

Overall Influence

#3913

Eid Hourany

#52818

Overall Influence

1940 - 2008 (68 years)

Dr. Eid Hourany was a French and Lebanese nuclear physicist. He studied in the Science Faculty in the Lebanese University at Hadath Beirut. He achieved his State PhD in France at the Institut of Nuclear Physics at Orsay where he was coached by Dr Toshiko Yuasa. From 1971 until 1982, he was Professor in Physics and finally Head of the Physics department at Hadath University . He joined French National Research Centre in 1982. From 1982 until 2006 he pursued several research activities and contributed to more than 80 scientific publications. He officially retired from CNRS in 2006 with the grade of "Directeur de Recherche".

#3914

Hyunjune Sebastian Seung

#108848

Overall Influence

#3915

Myron Tribus

#18493

Overall Influence

1921 - 2016 (95 years)

Myron T. Tribus was an American organizational theorist, who was the director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT from 1974 to 1986. He was known as leading supporter and interpreter of W. Edwards Deming, for popularizing the Bayesian methods, and for coining the term "thermoeconomics".

#3916

Yves Pomeau

#108909

Overall Influence

#3917

Antonio Walter Riotto

#108928

Overall Influence

#3918

Emerson Pugh

#84429

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Emerson W. Pugh is an American research engineer and scientist, whose career at US corporation IBM spanned several decades and resulted in significant technological advances. He was a leader in magnetic and computer memory technologies and author of several books, including college-level physics textbooks and the history of IBM. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was President of IEEE in 1989.

#3919

Robert Williams

Robert Williams

#91089

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Robert Eugene Williams is an American astronomer who served as the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute from 1993 to 1998, and the president of the International Astronomical Union from 2009 to 2012. Prior to his work at STScI, he was a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson for 18 years and the director of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory from 1986 to 1993.

#3920

Edith Alice Müller

#68011

Overall Influence

1918 - 1995 (77 years)

Edith Alice Müller was a Spanish-Swiss mathematician and astronomer. In 2018, the Swiss Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics launched the annual Edith Alice Müller Award for outstanding astronomy PhD theses in Switzerland.

#3921

Qu Qinyue

#93784

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Qu Qinyue is a Chinese astrophysicist and writer. He is a professor and former president of Nanjing University. He is a pioneer of high-energy astrophysics in China, and his research mainly focuses on pulsars, neutron stars, X-ray sources, γ-ray sources and quasars. In 1980 he was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

#3922

Pieter Kasteleyn

#35923

Overall Influence

1924 - 1996 (72 years)

Pieter Willem "Piet" Kasteleyn was a Dutch physicist famous for his contributions to the field of statistical mechanics. Biography Pieter Willem Kasteleyn was born in Leiden on 12 October 1924. After finishing high school in 1942, Kasteleyn briefly studied chemistry in Amsterdam. After the war, Leiden University reopened, where he undertook the study of physics and graduated in 1951. He defended his Ph.D. thesis working under S.R. de Groot in 1956.

#3923

Petros Serghiou Florides

#44409

Overall Influence

Petros Serghiou Florides was a Greek Cypriot mathematical physicist. He was born in Lapithos, Cyprus, and in 1958 received his bachelor's degree from the University of London. His 1960 PhD from Royal Holloway on "Problems in Relativity Theory and Relativistic Cosmology" was supervised by William McCrea. After a postdoc with John L Synge at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, he settled at Trinity College Dublin in 1962. There he spent over four decades, rising to the rank of senior fellow and pro-chancellor. In 1964 he was awarded a Master of Arts .

#3924

Rainer Spurzem

#106541

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Rainer Spurzem is a German astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in Heidelberg, Germany. His speciality is the N-body simulation of galaxies and star clusters. With Sverre Aarseth, he was the first to simulate core collapse of a star cluster using a direct N-body algorithm on a Cray supercomputer.

#3925

Ying-Cheng Lai

#79695

Overall Influence

Ying-Cheng Lai is a Chinese theoretical physicist/electrical engineer who works in the field of chaos theory and complex dynamical systems. He is among the pioneers in the field of relativistic quantum chaos. Currently, he works at Arizona State University as a Regents Professor. He also holds an ISS Chair Professorship in Electrical Engineering.

#3926

Jan Philip Solovej

#42889

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Jan Philip Solovej is a Danish mathematician and mathematical physicist working on the mathematical theory of quantum mechanics. He is a professor at University of Copenhagen. Biography Solovej obtained his Ph.D. in 1989 from Princeton University with the thesis on "Universality in the Thomas-Fermi-von Weizsäcker Model of Atoms and Molecules" supervised by Elliott H. Lieb. As a post-doctoral researcher, he went to the University of Michigan in 1989/90 and to the University of Toronto in 1990. In 1991 he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1991 to 1995, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University.

#3927

Saul Rappaport

#95053

Overall Influence

Saul Rappaport is a professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rappaport became assistant professor in the MIT Department of Physics in 1969 and became a full professor in 1981. From 1993 to 1995, he was head of the Astrophysics Division.

#3928

Derek W. Robinson

#72454

Overall Influence

1935 - 2021 (86 years)

Derek William Robinson was a British-Australian theoretical mathematician and physicist. He was a researcher at the Australian National University. Early life Derek W. Robinson was born in southern England. He attended grammar school followed by the University of Oxford where he earned a Bachelor of Arts with honours in mathematics in 1957 and a PhD in nuclear physics in 1960 with the dissertation, Multiple Coulomb Excitations in Deformed Nuclei. His PhD advisor was David M. Brink.

#3929

Hans-Heinrich Voigt

#98933

Overall Influence

1921 - 2017 (96 years)

Hans-Heinrich Voigt was a German astronomer and director of the Göttingen Observatory. Voigt was ordinary professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen and directed the Göttingen Observatory from 1963 to 1986, when he retired. He was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and its president from 1978 to 1979. In 1993 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal.

#3930

Matthew Bailes

#84940

Overall Influence

Professor Matthew Bailes is an astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. In 2015 he won an ARC Laureate Fellowship to work on Fast Radio Bursts. He is one of the most active researchers in pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts in the world. His research interests includes the birth, evolution of binary and millisecond pulsars, gravitational waves detection using an array of millisecond pulsars and radio astronomy data processing system design for Fast Radio Burst discovery.

#3931

Asher A. Friesem

Asher A. Friesem

#34800

Overall Influence

Asher A. Friesem is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Friesem received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1958 and 1968, respectively. From 1958 to 1963 he was employed by Bell Aero Systems Company and Bendix Research Laboratories. From 1963 to 1969, at the University of Michigan’s Institutes of Science and Technology, he conducted investigations in coherent optics, mainly in the areas of optical data processing and holography. From 1969 to 1973 he was principal research engineer in the Electro-Optics Center of Harris, Inc., performing research...

#3932

Jeffrey Drexel Scargle

#109126

Overall Influence

#3933

Kaido Reivelt

#87876

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Kaido Reivelt is an Estonian physicist and science populariser who works at the University of Tartu Institute of Physics. His research area is wave optics and he is President of the Estonian Physical Society.

#3934

Jelena Vučković

#60948

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Jelena Vučković is a Serbian-born American professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and a courtesy faculty member in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Vučković leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab, and is a faculty member of the Ginzton Lab, PULSE Institute, SIMES Institute, and Bio-X at Stanford. She was the inaugural director of the Q-FARM initiative . She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of The Optical Society, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electr...

#3935

Harald Friedrich

#103038

Overall Influence

1947 - 2017 (70 years)

Harald Friedrich was a German physicist specializing in theoretical atomic physics. Friedrich was born in Berlin and grew up in Australia. He studied physics at the University of Kiel and the University of Freiburg, and completed his doctoral studies in 1975 at the University of Münster with a dissertation on the microscopic description of the scattering of light and medium-weight nuclei. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral student at the University of Oxford. In 1980 he habilitated as a professor at the University of Münster and was at Caltech from 1981 to 1983 on a Heisenberg scholarship. H...

#3936

Emmanuel David Tannenbaum

#51254

Overall Influence

1978 - 2012 (34 years)

Emmanuel David Tannenbaum was an Israeli/American biophysicist and applied mathematician. He worked as a professor and researcher in the department of chemistry at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the department of biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in the fields of mathematical biology, systems biology, and quantum physics.

#3937

Philip H. Bucksbaum

Philip H. Bucksbaum

#96953

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Philip H. Bucksbaum is an American atomic physicist, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science in the Departments of Physics, Applied Physics, and Photon Science at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He also directs the Stanford PULSE Institute.

#3938

D. Harold McNamara

D. Harold McNamara

#104496

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

D. Harold McNamara, Ph.D. was an American astronomer at Brigham Young University and an internationally recognized authority in intrinsic variable and eclipsing binary stars. McNamara received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950. His dissertation was entitled "A Two Color Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Variable, YZ Cassiopeia". Following his Ph.D. he spent five years teaching and researching with the renown Professor Otto Struve. In 1955, he joined Brigham Young University as the first faculty member whose training was primarily in the field of astronomy. He then inaugurated the graduate program in astrophysics at BYU in 1957.

#3939

Harold F. Levison

Harold F. Levison

#75134

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Harold F. Levison is an American planetary scientist specializing in planetary dynamics. He currently works at the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, and studies planetary orbits and their evolution through Solar System history.

#3940

Linda A. Morabito

Linda A. Morabito

#83023

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Linda A. Morabito , also known as Linda Kelly, Linda Hyder, and Linda Morabito-Meyer, is the astronomer who discovered volcanic activity on Io, a moon of Jupiter. She made this finding on March 9, 1979, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At the time of her discovery, she was serving as Cognizant Engineer over the Optical Navigation Image Processing System on the Voyager deep space mission Navigation Team. While performing image processing analysis of a Voyager 1 picture taken for spacecraft navigation, she detected a tall cloud off the limb of Io. The cloud was of volcanic origin. This was the first time in history that active volcanism was detected off of Earth.

#3941

Lars A. Berglund

#109247

Overall Influence

#3942

Xiaoyi Bao

#42962

Overall Influence

Xiaoyi Bao is a Chinese Canadian physicist, recognized for her contributions to the field of fiber optics. She is a professor at the University of Ottawa, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Fiber Optics and Photonics. Bao was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lethbridge; the citation for the honour called her "a world-renowned scholar in her field."

#3943

Masataka Nakazawa

#87028

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Masataka Nakazawa is a Japanese researcher in optical communication engineering. He is a distinguished professor at Tohoku University in Japan. His pioneering work on erbium-doped fiber amplifier has made a significant contribution to the development of global long-distance, high-capacity optical fiber network.

#3944

Christopher Eccleston

#109270

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

#3945

Rudolf Schulten

Rudolf Schulten

#47120

Overall Influence

1923 - 1996 (73 years)

Rudolf Schulten —professor at RWTH Aachen University—was the main developer of the pebble bed reactor design, which was originally invented by Farrington Daniels. Schulten's concept compacts silicon carbide-coated uranium granules into hard, billiard-ball-like graphite spheres to be used as fuel for a new high temperature, helium-cooled type of nuclear reactor.

#3946

Anders Bárány

#93197

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

John "Anders" Bárány is a Swedish scientist working in the field of theoretical physics. Career Bárány became a doctor of philosophy in theoretical physics at Uppsala University in 1973 and later became university doctor at the same university. During the 1980s he worked at the Research Institute for Atomic Physics in Stockholm. Since parts of the institute was transferred to Stockholm University and renamed as the Manne Sieghbahn Laboratory, Bárány became a professor there.

#3947

William Graham Hoover

#109320

Overall Influence

#3948

Roberta Sessoli

#76668

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Roberta Sessoli is Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" at the University of Florence. Renowned as a pioneer in the field of magnetic bistability and quantum effects in mesoscopic materials, her research centers around investigating the magnetic properties of molecular clusters and chains, with a focus on designing and characterizing molecular magnetic materials.

#3949

Wolfgang Parak

#91336

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Wolfgang Parak is a German Professor at the Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics of the University of Hamburg. He is head of the Biofunctional Nanomaterials Unit at CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain. He received his PhD in 1999 from Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany. From 2000 to 2002, he was Postdoc at the Department of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley under Paul Alivisatos. From 2007 to 2017, he was Professor of Experimental Physics at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany.

#3950

Claudio Bassi

#109433

Overall Influence

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