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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#4801

Leonidas Resvanis

#122838

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Leonidas "Leo" K. Resvanis is a physicist known for his work with neutrinos. He was a Professor of Physics at the University of Athens from 1976 until he retired and became Emeritus Professor in 2011. He served as the director of the Nestor Project.

#4802

Brian Thrush

#115859

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Brian Arthur Thrush was a British physical chemist. He was an Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College. Research Thrush studied the atom and free radical reactions in the gas phase of spectroscopic methods. He made the first comprehensive examination of the absorption spectra of free radicals in homogeneous explosions using flash photolysis. He discovered the absorption spectra of several free radicals , and he determined the ionisation potential of the tropyl radical.

#4803

Harold P. Klug

#122889

Overall Influence

#4804

Schelte J. Bus

#76390

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Schelte John "Bobby" Bus is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi and deputy director of NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, United States.

#4805

Helmut Ritsch

#94140

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Helmut Ritsch is an Austrian quantum physicist and a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Innsbruck. Helmut Ritsch's research concerns the fundamental aspects and applications of quantum optics and cavity quantum electrodynamics. Together with his theory group, he focuses on cavity cooling, self-organization, quantum thermodynamics, light forces, superradiant lasing and quantum metrology. His significant contributions in those fields have been honoured with prestigious awards and prizes, as the Ludwig Boltzmann Prize of the Austrian Physical Society and the Erwin Schrödinger...

#4806

Harvey Raymond Butcher

#108220

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Harvey Raymond Butcher III is an astronomer who has made significant contributions in observational astronomy and instrumentation which have advanced understanding of the formation of stars and of the universe. He received a B.Sc. in Astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1969, where he contributed to the development of advanced infrared spectrometry applied in the first survey of the sky at infrared wavelengths .

#4807

Željko Ivezić

#115613

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Željko Ivezić is a Croatian-American astrophysicist. After receiving his PhD in physics from the University of Kentucky in 1995, where he worked on dust radiative transfer models , he moved to Princeton University in 1997 to work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey being the principal author of the SDSS Moving Object Catalogue . After Princeton, he took a professorship at the University of Washington in 2004.

#4808

Alfred Wiedensohler

#122971

Overall Influence

#4809

Ferdinand V. Coroniti

#122979

Overall Influence

#4810

Daniel Joseph Bradley

#53286

Overall Influence

1928 - 2010 (82 years)

Daniel Joseph Bradley was an Irish physicist, and Emeritus Professor of Optical Electronics, at Trinity College, Dublin. Early life and education Born on 18 January 1928, he was one of four surviving children of John and Margaret Bradley, Lecky Road, Derry. He left school to work as a telegraph boy but returned to education at St Columb's College. Having trained as a teacher at St Mary's College, Belfast, Northern Ireland, he qualified in 1947.

#4811

Alvin V. Tollestrup

#85455

Overall Influence

1924 - 2020 (96 years)

Alvin Virgil Tollestrup was an American high-energy particle physicist best known for his key roles in the development of the superconducting magnets for Fermilab's Tevatron and the formation of CDF.

#4812

Hartmut Löwen

#113946

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Hartmut Löwen is a German physicist working in the field of statistical mechanics and soft matter physics. Career Hartmut Löwen studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the Technical University of Dortmund from 1982, where he graduated in physics in 1986 and obtained his doctorate in 1987 on phase transitions in Polaron systems with Bernd Gerlach. He partially pointed out together with Gerlach the non-existence of phase transitions for many phonon systems and especially polaron systems, in contrast to that what was previously expected. Löwen then worked as a Post-Doc at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1993 with Herbert Wagner.

#4813

Takashi Yoshimoto

#123047

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

#4814

Viktor K. Jirsa

#101792

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Viktor K. Jirsa is a German physicist and neuroscientist, director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique , director of the Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes and co-director of the Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire EPINEXT "Epilepsy and Disorders of Neuronal Excitability" in Marseille, France. He is workpackage leader in the Epinov project funded in the context of the RHU3 call and coordinated by Fabrice Bartolomei.

#4815

Akira Miyauchi

#123087

Overall Influence

#4816

Joseph V. Hollweg

#123102

Overall Influence

#4817

Louis A. Girifalco

#123106

Overall Influence

#4818

Amiram Grinvald

#123109

Overall Influence

#4819

Arthur Kerman

#107766

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

Arthur Kent Kerman was a Canadian-American nuclear physicist, a fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was a professor emeritus of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Theoretical Physics and Laboratory for Nuclear Science He was known for his work on the theory of the structure of nuclei and on the theory of nuclear reactions.

#4820

Craig D. Roberts

#123131

Overall Influence

#4821

Helmuth Berger

#123159

Overall Influence

#4822

Kirill Kondratyev

#90808

Overall Influence

1920 - 2006 (86 years)

Kirill Yakovlevich Kondratyev was a Soviet and Russian atmospheric physicist. Career Kondratyev was born in Rybinsk. He went to school in Leningrad and in 1938 entered the University of Leningrad to study physics, mathematics, and chemistry. In 1941, he joined the Russian army and fought in the siege of Leningrad. He graduated in atmospheric physics in 1946 and was made an assistant professor in the Faculty of Physics.

#4823

Gregory W. Henry

#111067

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Gregory W. Henry is an astronomer and research scientist for Tennessee State University. In 1999, Henry led one of two teams that discovered the first transiting extrasolar planet, HD 209458 b. The other team was led by David Charbonneau.

#4824

Efim S. Fradkin

#123209

Overall Influence

#4825

Nora Brambilla

#102881

Overall Influence

Nora Brambilla is an Italian and German theoretical particle physicist known for her research on quarkonium, particles composed of two quarks instead of the more usual three. She is a professor of theoretical particle and nuclear physics at the Technical University of Munich.

#4826

Kim Ung-yong

#80556

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Kim Ung-Yong is a South Korean civil engineer. During his youth, he was recognized as a child prodigy with the highest recorded IQ having scored above 210 on the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale.

#4827

Oliver Gutfleisch

#123273

Overall Influence

#4828

Lloyd P. Aiello

#123305

Overall Influence

#4829

A.T. Charlie Johnson

#94235

Overall Influence

Alan T. Charlie Johnson is an American physicist, professor in physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and was the director of the Nano/Bio Interface Center at the University of Pennsylvania .

#4830

Anatoly Maslov

#87869

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Anatoly Alexandrovich Maslov is a Russian physics and a professor at the Aerohydrodynamic Department at the Novosibirsk State Technical University, specialist in the field of laminar-turbulent transition.

#4831

Katie Mack

#97843

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Katherine J. Mack is a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay and the epoch of reionisation. Mack is also a popular science communicator who participates in social media and regularly writes for Scientific American, Slate, Sky & Telescope, Time, and Cosmos.

#4832

Sergey V. Buldyrev

#123354

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#4833

David J. Nesbitt

#123360

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

#4834

Hans Ryde

#109982

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Hans Ryde is a Swedish physicist who is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy at Stockholm University in 1962. He was employed by the Research Institute of Atomic Physics in Frescati, Stockholm during the 60s and 70s, where he did his research in the field of nuclear structural physics in general and deformed nuclear nuclei in particular. By using a 225-cm cyclotron he discovered, together with his colleague Arne Johnson, that there was a backbending effect in fast rotating nuclei. In 1975 he replaced Sten von Friesen as a professor at the Department of Physics, Lund University.

#4835

Petr Heinzel

#118493

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Petr Heinzel is a Czech astronomer and professor who is specialized in Solar Physics. From 2004 to 2012 he was director of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences . In 2012 he was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Charles University, Czech Republic. Since, 2017, he is chair of the Czech Astronomical Society. He is also a member of the International Astronomical Union.

#4836

Mary Almond

#79166

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Mary Almond, is an English physicist, radio astronomer, palaeomagnetist, mathematician, and computer scientist who completed an early PhD in radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank Observatory in 1952. Early life and education Almond was born in Manchester and studied for a degree in physics at the University of Manchester from 1946 to 1949, where she was taught by Patrick Blackett and Bernard Lovell.

#4837

Nicolas Grandjean

#94760

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Nicolas Grandjean is a French professor of physics. His achievements include over 600 books and articles, giving him an h-index of 62. Biography Grandjean was born in Dijon, France, and is a citizen of that country. He studied at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and Nice-Sophia Antipolis. In 1991, he joined the Solid-State Physics and Solar Energy Laboratory, a division of the French National Center for Scientific Research where he studied physical properties of nanostructures. By 1994 he obtained his Ph.D. and became a CNRS winner. Later on, as a senior research fellow, he worked at the Research Center for Heteroepitaxy and its Applications, a division of Sophia Antipolis.

#4838

Yang-jian Cai

#123418

Overall Influence

#4839

King-Wai Yau

#63396

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

King-Wai Yau is a Chinese-born American neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Biography Born in Guangzhou , Guangdong, China, he was the sixth of seven children. His family relocated to Hong Kong within months of his birth. His father, a businessman, died when Yau was only five years old.

#4840

Wim Mook

#63668

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Willem Gerrit "Wim" Mook was a Dutch isotope physicist. Mook was born on 10 July 1932 in Groningen. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Groningen in 1968, with a dissertation titled: Geochemistry of the stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of natural waters in the Netherlands. He was a lecturer of isotope physics at the same university between 1975 and 1979. Starting the next year he was professor of isotope physics, until his retirement in 1997. From 1986 he also served as professor at the VU University Amsterdam.

#4841

K. Alex Müller

#123443

Overall Influence

#4842

John R. Philip

#46108

Overall Influence

1927 - 1999 (72 years)

John Robert Philip AO FAA FRS was an Australian soil physicist and hydrologist, internationally recognised for his contributions to the understanding of movement of water, energy and gases. While he never performed his own experimental work, he was recognised for his skills in mathematics that could be used to explain physical processes and solve real world problems.

#4843

Shimon Weiss

#123502

Overall Influence

#4844

Felix Boehm

#78505

Overall Influence

1924 - 2021 (97 years)

Felix Hans Boehm was a Swiss-American experimental physicist, known for his research on weak interactions, parity violation, and neutrino physics. Biography He had four brothers and both his father and his paternal grandfather were in the publishing business. Felix Boehm completed his Matura in 1943 and was drafted into Swiss army, which allowed him to study physics part-time at the University of Geneva. In the autumn of 1943 he matriculated at ETH Zurich. There he took several classes from Wolfgang Pauli and graduated in physics with his Diplom in 1948 and his doctorate in 1951 with doctoral advisor Paul Scherrer.

#4845

Keith Burrell

#123544

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Keith Howard Burrell is an American plasma physicist. Early life and career Burrell received bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University in 1968. He then received a master's degree and a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech in 1970 and 1975 respectively. He then worked at General Atomics in fusion research with tokamaks, in particular DIII-D tokamak from General Atomics. Before that, he did research at the ISX-A and ISA-B Tokamak of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

#4846

Felix Creutzig

#79078

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Felix Creutzig is a German physicist, and professor of Sustainability Economics at Technical University of Berlin. Education Creutzig was born in Hanover. He studied physics and medicine at the University of Freiburg from 1999 to 2002. As student of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, he obtained a Master of Advanced Studies in 2003. From 2003 until 2008, Felix Creutzig followed his doctoral studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin on „Sufficient encoding of dynamical systems“ obtaining a PhD in biophysics.

#4847

Bruce W. Shore

#118777

Overall Influence

1935 - 2021 (86 years)

Bruce W. Shore was an American theoretical physicist known for his works in atomic physics and the theory of the interaction of light with matter. Biography In 1960, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shore defended his doctoral thesis in experimental nuclear chemistry. The next decade he worked at the Harvard Observatory and the Kansas State University. In 1970, he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. In the 1980s, Shore spent his sabbaticals lecturing at Imperial College London. Since 1991, he has been closely collaborating ...

#4848

Olga Malinkiewicz

#58372

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Olga Malinkiewicz is a Polish physicist, inventor of a method of producing solar cells based on perovskitess using inkjet printing. She is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Saule Technologies.

#4849

Francis A. Cucinotta

#123646

Overall Influence

#4850

Mohamad Sayyed

#123652

Overall Influence

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