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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#4501

Sven Kullander

#104891

Overall Influence

1936 - 2014 (78 years)

Sven Kullander was a Swedish physicist. He was professor of High Energy Physics at Uppsala University. Kullander received his doctorate from Uppsala University in 1971. He took part in experiments on measurements of nuclear shell structure from meson scattering carried out in accelerators, on the structure of Helium nuclei, and on quark structure of matter by meson production. He also contributed to the development of accelerators.

#4502

Nicolas Yunes

#117065

Overall Influence

Nicolás Yunes is an Argentinian theoretical physicist who is a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the founding director of the Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe . He is particularly interested in extreme gravity, gravitational waves, and compact binaries.

#4503

Wolfgang Prof. Dr. Wuttke

#118175

Overall Influence

#4504

Larry Gladney

#72823

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Larry Donnie Gladney is an American experimental particle physicist and cosmologist. In 2019, he became professor of physics and the Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development at Yale University. Previously he was the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence, and associate dean for natural sciences, at the University of Pennsylvania. His research has focused on issues relating to the origins of expansion of the universe following the Big Bang, and on fundamental connections between matter, energy, space, and time. The recipient of many fellowships an...

#4505

Oliver Ambacher

#118188

Overall Influence

#4506

David Kelly Campbell

#83619

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

David Kelly Campbell is an American theoretical physicist and academic leader. His research has spanned high energy physics, condensed matter physics and nonlinear dynamics. He also served as Physics Department Head at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Dean of the College Engineering at Boston University, and Boston University Provost.

#4507

Edo Berger

#118225

Overall Influence

#4508

T. N. Krishnamurti

#80769

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Tiruvalam Natarajan Krishnamurti was an Indian meteorologist. He was a Professor emeritus at Florida State University, where prior to his retirement he was the Lawton Distinguished Professor of Meteorology.

#4509

Wolfgang Lubitz

Wolfgang Lubitz

#86012

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Wolfgang Lubitz is a German chemist and biophysicist. He is currently a director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. He is well known for his work on bacterial photosynthetic reaction centres, hydrogenase enzymes, and the oxygen-evolving complex using a variety of biophysical techniques. He has been recognized by a Festschrift for his contributions to electron paramagnetic resonance and its applications to chemical and biological systems.

#4510

Hellmut Eckert

#118235

Overall Influence

#4511

Nıgerıa

#118237

Overall Influence

#4512

Yury Mikhailovich Bunkov

#106458

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Yury Mikhailovich Bunkov is a Russian experimental physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics. He is known as one of the co-discoverers of the quantum spin liquid state. Education and career Bunkov, born into a family of geologists, graduated in 1968 from a special school for physics and mathematics in Moscow . In 1968 he also achieved first place in the Moscow Physics Olympiad and matriculated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , which was headed by Piotr Kapitza.

#4513

Yoshiteru Maeno

#118287

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

#4514

Stephen W. Lovesey

#118292

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

#4515

Anthony Watts

#101525

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Anthony Watts is a British biochemist and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and C W Maplethorpe Fellow in Biological Sciences and tutor at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, the Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Biology and Biophysical Society. He was managing director of the European Biophysics Journal, and is a co-opted member of the European Biophysical Societies' Association , chair of the British Biophysical Society and chair of the Scientific Committee for the IUPAB/EBSA/BBS/IoP Biophysics congress, 2017. He was President o...

#4516

Päivi Törmä

#51154

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Päivi Törmä is a Finnish physics professor at Aalto University. She works in the fields of quantum many-body physics, superconductivity, and nanophotonics. Biography Päivi Törmä graduated with a master's degree from the University of Oulu and the University of Cambridge. She earned a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Helsinki in 1996, under the supervision of Stig Stenholm. She worked as a postdoc at the University of Ulm in the group of Wolfgang Schleich, and as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Innsbruck in the group of Peter Zoller. In 2001 she became a professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

#4517

Kohei Itoh

#27750

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Kohei Ito is a Japanese physicist. He is the president of Keio University and Chairman of the Keio University Athletic Association. His research fields are solid-state physics, quantum computers, electronic materials, nanotechnology, and semiconductor isotope engineering. His favorite words are "the world becomes narrower if you move" and "the duty of the blessed".

#4518

Murray Batchelor

#79770

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Murray Thomas Batchelor is an Australian mathematical physicist. He is best known for his work in mathematical physics and theoretical physics. Academic career Batchelor was educated at Chatham Public School and Chatham High School . He completed an Honours degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of New South Wales in 1983, graduating with 1st class honours and a University Medal. Batchelor completed a PhD in Mathematics at the Australian National University in 1987.

#4519

David J. Sellmyer

#118389

Overall Influence

#4520

Manuel Morales

#94797

Overall Influence

1919 - 2009 (90 years)

Manuel Francisco Morales was a Honduran-born American biophysicist who did pivotal research on the molecular basis of muscle contraction. Scientific career In the 1950s at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Morales and Terrell Hill showed that the high energy of the terminal phosphate bond in ATP was due to electrostatic repulsion between the three phosphate groups, and he and Richard Podolsky measured the heat of hydrolysis for ATP cleavage, the fundamental energy currency of biological metabolism.

#4521

Carlos Torres

#86937

Overall Influence

1929 - 2011 (82 years)

Carlos Torres was a Chilean astronomer of the University of Chile and an individual member of the International Astronomical Union on several commissions. Between 1968 and 1982, he discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids from the University of Chile's Cerro El Roble Astronomical Station. Together with Spanish astronomer Carlos Guillermo Torres , he was honored with the naming of asteroid 1769 Carlostorres.

#4522

Joe Vinen

#101949

Overall Influence

1930 - 2022 (92 years)

William Frank Vinen was a British physicist specialising in low temperature physics. Career Vinen was born on 15 February 1930, the son of Gilbert Vinen and his wife Olive Maud Vinen, née Roach. After Watford Grammar School, he attended Clare College, Cambridge, completing a doctorate in 1956. He was a Research Fellow there from 1955 to 1958, when he became a Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1962, he was appointed to a Chair of Physics at Birmingham University. He was appointed to the Poynting Chair in 1973. He served as Head of Department from 1973 until 1981, and retired from the...

#4523

Claus Rolfs

#115472

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Claus E. Rolfs is a German experimental physicist, known for his laboratory research related to nuclear astrophysics. He is a co-initiator of Nuclei in the Cosmos. Biography Rolfs went to school in Offenburg and studied physics at the University of Freiburg. From 1973 he was a close associate of William A. Fowler at Caltech, where Rolfs was a Millikan Fellow. In the 1970s and 1980s Rolfs was a professor at the University of Münster. He was a professor at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1990 to 2007, when he retired as professor emeritus. He lives in Münster. In 1980 he was a visiting professo...

#4524

David B. Haviland

#99274

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

David Brant Haviland , is a Swedish-American physicist, professor in nanostructure physics and mesoscopic physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Haviland grew up in Ames, Iowa, and studied physics at Union College 1979–83, New York. Within the Fulbright program 1983/84 he was at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of Minnesota. Between 1989 and 1997 he worked at Chalmers University of Technology before joining the Royal Institute of Technology as a professor in 1997.

#4525

Peter D. Drummond

#118489

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#4526

Orion Ciftja

#117534

Overall Influence

Orion Ciftja is a physicist and tenured professor at Prairie View A&M University. Ciftja specializes in theoretical physics with strong emphasis in condensed matter physics. His main areas of interest are quantum hall effect, nanoscale structures, and strongly correlated electronic systems.

#4527

Francesco Violi

#118527

Overall Influence

#4528

Jüri Engelbrecht

Jüri Engelbrecht

#28245

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Jüri Engelbrecht is an Estonian mechanics scientist. Since 1963, he is teaching at Tallinn University of Technology. From 1994 to 2004, he was President of Estonian Academy of Sciences.

#4529

Bruce McKellar

#82814

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Professor Bruce Harold John McKellar is an Australian theoretical particle physicist who is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale in the School of Physics at The University of Melbourne. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics elected him as its President-Designate in 2012. In November 2014 McKellar became President of IUPAP, the first-ever Australian to take on this role.

#4530

Herman Winick

#73987

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Herman Winick is an American scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Applied Physics Department of Stanford University. Biography After receiving his AB and PhD in physics from Columbia University, he continued work in experimental high energy physics at the University of Rochester and then as a member of the scientific staff and Assistant Director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator at Harvard University .

#4531

Peter Schattschneider

#53144

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Peter Schattschneider is an Austrian physicist and science-fiction writer, a retired professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics and a staff member of the USTEM special unit of the Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on electron microscopy, specifically on electron energy loss spectroscopy and the inelastic interactions between electrons and matter. He is also interested in the history of physics, the science in science fiction, and the role of science in society. His group was responsible for the discovery of electron magnetic circular dichroism in 2006.

#4532

Anna Maria Nobili

#83324

Overall Influence

Anna Maria Nobili is an Italian physicist active in the field of gravitational physics. Her institution is Pisa University. She authored a number of papers on satellite dynamics and co-authored a book with Andrea Milani and Paolo Farinella on the orbital perturbations induced by non-gravitational forces. After having published several papers on celestial mechanics, also in collaboration with Clifford Will and E. Myles Standish, Nobili is now Principal Investigator of the Galileo Galilei experiment aimed to improve the accuracy of the equivalence principle lying at the foundation of general relativity and of other metric theories of gravity.

#4533

Hans Henrik Andersen

#105096

Overall Influence

1937 - 2012 (75 years)

Hans Henrik Andersen was a professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen . He was the founder and subsequently co-editor of the scientific journal "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B".

#4534

Dror Fixler

#44890

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Dror Fixler is an Israeli physicist specializing in optics. He is the director of the Bar-Ilan institute of nanotechnology and advanced materials, a Professor of Electrical engineering and Nanophotonics at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. He is also a visiting professor in Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, China. He is also an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and posek, and a student of Rabbi Nahum Eliezer Rabinovitch.

#4535

Takayoshi Kobayashi Takayoshi Kobayashi

#118666

Overall Influence

#4536

G. R. Dvali

#118682

Overall Influence

#4537

Richard C. Powell

#89732

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Richard C. Powell is an American professor emeritus of physics and vice president emeritus of the University of Arizona , whose career focused on research in materials science and laser optics. He served as president of the Optical Society of America in 2000.

#4538

Yanga R. Fernández

#99895

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Yanga Roland Fernández is a Canadian-born American astronomer at the University of Central Florida. Together with Scott S. Sheppard, he co-discovered the Carme group, a group of moons of the planet Jupiter.

#4539

Richard A. Webb

#87918

Overall Influence

1946 - 2016 (70 years)

Richard A. Webb was an experimental solid-state physicist who is particularly noted for his work on the electronic properties of mesoscopic systems. Life Richard Webb received his BSc degree from UC Berkeley and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UC San Diego . Between 1978 and 1993 he was researcher at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. From 1993 to 2004 he was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he worked at the Center for Superconductivity Research. Starting 2004, he was a professor at the University of South Carolina.

#4540

James M. Berger

#72270

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

James Michael Berger is an American academic working as a professor of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is also the co-director of the Cancer Chemical and Structural Biology Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and the director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. His main area of research is the functions of molecular cellular machinery.

#4541

Andrew G. White

#105831

Overall Influence

Andrew G. White FAA is an Australian scientist and is currently Professor of Physics and a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. He is also Director of the University of Queensland Quantum technology Laboratory; Deputy-Director of the ARC Centre for Engineered Quantum systems, and a Program Manager in the ARC Centre for Quantum Computer and Communication Technology. .

#4542

Marsha I. Lester

Marsha I. Lester

#56195

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Marsha Isack Lester is an American physical chemist. She is currently the Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Lester uses both theoretical and experimental methods to study the physical chemistry of volatile organic compounds present in the Earth's atmosphere. Her current work focuses on the hydroxyl radical and Criegee intermediates.

#4543

Leslie Lawrance Foldy

#92250

Overall Influence

1919 - 2001 (82 years)

Leslie Lawrance Foldy was a theoretical physicist, who made contributions to condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics. Early life Foldy was born László Földi in Sabinov, Czechoslovakia, on October 26, 1919. In 1920, his family moved to the USA due to the invasions of Czechoslovakia by Hungary around that time, and there he was known as Leslie Foldy.

#4544

Friedrich Grimminger

#118829

Overall Influence

#4545

James Whitney Young

#68546

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

James Whitney Young is an American astronomer who worked in the field of asteroid research. After nearly 47 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at their Table Mountain Facility, Young retired July 16, 2009.

#4546

Larry C. Andrews

#118845

Overall Influence

#4547

Anthony Tat Yin Lui

#118859

Overall Influence

#4548

C. Arnold Beevers

C. Arnold Beevers

#49902

Overall Influence

1908 - 2001 (93 years)

Cecil Arnold Beevers was a British crystallographer, known for Beevers–Lipson strips, a computational aid for calculating Fourier transforms to determine the structure of crystals from crystallographic data, enabling the creation of models for complex molecules.

#4549

R. Orin Cornett

#37816

Overall Influence

1913 - 2002 (89 years)

R. Orin Cornett was an American physicist, university professor and administrator, and the inventor of a literacy system for the deaf, known as Cued Speech. Biography R. Orin Cornett was born in Driftwood, Oklahoma, a now unincorporated town near the Kansas border located in Alfalfa County, on November 14, 1913. He earned his BS degree in mathematics from Oklahoma Baptist University in 1934, followed by an MS from the University of Oklahoma in 1937. In 1940, Cornett was awarded a Ph.D. in physics and applied mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, with his thesis entitled, “Acoustic Spectra of Edge Tones.” From 1935 to 1945, Dr.

#4550

Alexander Lincoln Read

#118914

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

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