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List of the most influential people in Physics,

#4851

Jennifer Hoffman

#110183

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jennifer Hoffman is an American astrophysicist and associate professor at the University of Denver. She studies the circumstellar material around stars. Early life and education In 1994 Hoffman graduated from University of California, Berkeley, having spent a year at University of Göttingen. Hoffman earned her PhD in 2002. She worked with Kenneth Nordsieck on Locating Mass Loss: Numerical Modeling of Circumstellar Material in Binary Systems.

#4852

Imke de Pater

#105971

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Imke de Pater is a Dutch astronomer working at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her research on the large planets and led the team using the Keck Telescope to image the 1994 impact of the comet Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with Jupiter.

#4853

Trevor John Lewis

#123679

Overall Influence

#4854

David N. Payne

#20522

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Sir David Neil Payne CBE FRS FREng is a British professor of photonics who is director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. He has made several contributions in areas of optical fibre communications over the last fifty years and his work has affected telecommunications and laser technology. Payne’s work spans diverse areas of photonics, from telecommunications and optical sensors to nanophotonics and optical materials, including the introduction of the first optical fibre drawing tower in a university.

#4855

Michel Soutif

#54673

Overall Influence

1921 - 2016 (95 years)

Michel Soutif , Officier de la Légion d’honneur, Grand Officier de l’ordre national du Mérite, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mali, was a French scientist and educator, known for his major contribution to the development of the University of Grenoble in the years following the Second World War. He is also known for his early work on nuclear magnetic resonance, centimetre wavelength radiation and electron spin resonance. He graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure , and, on completing his thesis, was invited by Louis Néel to a post at the University of Grenoble, where he established the Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique.

#4856

Brian L. DeMarco

#59532

Overall Influence

Brian Leeds DeMarco is a physicist and professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2005 he placed first in the quantum physics portion of the "Amazing Light" competition honoring Charles Townes, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics. DeMarco is currently conducting experiments in quantum simulation.

#4857

Haim Aviv

#41299

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Haim Aviv was an Israeli scientist who specialized in the field of molecular biology. Aviv is considered to have a fundamental role in the shaping of the biotechnology industry in Israel, as he was widely involved in this industry since the late 1970s to this day.

#4858

Ginestra Bianconi

#60106

Overall Influence

Ginestra Bianconi is a network scientist and mathematical physicist, known for her work on statistical mechanics, network theory, multilayer and higher-order networks, and in particular for the Bianconi–Barabási model of growing of complex networks and for the Bose–Einstein condensation in complex networks. She is a professor of applied mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, and the editor-in-chief of Journal of Physics: Complexity.

#4859

Joachim Stöhr

#100477

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Joachim Stöhr is a physicist and professor emeritus of the Photon Science Department of Stanford University. His research has focused on the development of X-ray and synchrotron radiation techniques and their applications in different scientific fields with emphasis on surface science and magnetism. During his career he also held several scientific leadership positions, such as the director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and he was the founding director of the Linac Coherent Light Source , the world's first x-ray free electron laser.

#4860

Tadashi Takayanagi

#123744

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

#4861

Andrew Pitman

#72682

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Andrew John Pitman is a British-Australian atmospheric scientist. He was born in Bristol in 1964 and educated at Liverpool University . He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Leadership from Macquarie University.

#4862

John Robert de Laeter

#93809

Overall Influence

1933 - 2010 (77 years)

John Robert de Laeter, AO, FTSE, FAIP was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career across several fields in nuclear physics, cosmochemistry, geochronology, isotope geochemistry. He was also a prominent administrator and promoter who oversaw the establishment of several scientific research and education centres in Western Australia.

#4863

Horace P. H. Yuen

#123767

Overall Influence

#4864

Barry Smalley

#123777

Overall Influence

#4865

Romain Murenzi

#56973

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Romain Murenzi is a Rwandan-American physicist and former Rwandan science minister. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Burundi in 1982. In 1986 he received his master's degree in physics from Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and in 1990 earned his doctorate degree there. Murenzi is the executive director of TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries in Trieste, Italy. He first served in that role from April 2011 to May 2016. Then, after spending 14 months as director of the Division of Science Policy and Capaci...

#4866

Satya Prakash

#61526

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Satya Prakash is an Indian plasma physicist and a former senior professor at the Physical Research Laboratory. He is known for his studies on Langmuir probes and other contributions in space and plasma sciences. A protégé of Vikram Sarabhai, Satya Prakash is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies such as Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India as well as the Gujarat Science Academy and is a recipient of the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Senior Scientist Award. The Government of India honored him with Padma Shri, th...

#4867

Rosario Nunzio Mantegna

#123817

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#4868

Karl-Henning Rehren

#79398

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Karl-Henning Rehren is a German physicist who focuses on algebraic quantum field theory. Biography Rehren studied physics in Heidelberg, Paris and Freiburg. In Freiburg he received his PhD in 1984. Habilitation 1991 in Berlin. Since 1997 he teaches physics in Göttingen.

#4869

Maria Specovius Neugebauer

#123831

Overall Influence

#4870

Walter Franz

#102457

Overall Influence

1911 - 1992 (81 years)

Walter Franz was a German theoretical physicist who independently discovered the Franz–Keldysh effect. Franz was a student of Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich. He was granted his Ph.D. in 1934. In the preface to the book Optik, Sommerfeld cited him for "the most recent and particularly lucid treatment" of the vectorial generalization of Huygens’ principle.

#4871

Arun Bansil

#123838

Overall Influence

#4872

Joseph Hamill

#123841

Overall Influence

#4873

James P. Eisenstein

#76266

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

James P. Eisenstein is the Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the physics department of California Institute of Technology. Academic career Eisenstein received a doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1983 he had been member of staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, until in 1996 he moved to take up a professorial post at California Institute of Technology.

#4874

Vladimir Kocharovsky

#100381

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Vladimir Kocharovsky is a Russian physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Head of the Astrophysics and Space Plasma Physics Department at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a professor at N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod.

#4875

Mario Capitelli

#123881

Overall Influence

#4876

Niloy Kumar Dutta

#123884

Overall Influence

#4877

Aina Elvius

#105177

Overall Influence

1917 - 2019 (102 years)

Aina Margareta Elvius was a Swedish astronomer known for her work on polarized light from galaxies and the nuclei of active galaxies. She was professor of astronomy at Stockholm University, director of the Stockholm Observatory, and the second Swedish woman to be elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

#4878

Anthony M. Johnson

#66422

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Anthony Michael Johnson is an American experimental physicist, a professor of physics, and a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County . He is the director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research , also situated on campus at UMBC. Since his election to the 2002 term as president of the Optical Society, formerly the Optical Society of America, Johnson has the distinction of being the first and only African-American president to date. Johnson's research interests include the ultrafast photophysics and nonlinear o...

#4879

Thaisa Storchi Bergmann

#50498

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Thaisa Storchi Bergmann is a Brazilian astrophysicist working at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She won the Women in Science Award in 2015 for her work on supermassive black holes.

#4880

John W. Farley

#90534

Overall Influence

John William Farley was an American atomic physicist and an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as the Southern Nevada district's representative to the American Association of Physics Teachers.

#4881

Thierry Giamarchi

#121711

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Thierry Giamarchi is a French physicist. Biography Thierry Giamarchi studied in Toulouse and Marseille and after preparatory classes at the Lycée Thiers became a student at the École Normale Supérieure . He passed his thesis under the direction of H.J. Schulz at the Paris-Sud University in 1987.

#4882

Stephen E. D. Webb

#123969

Overall Influence

#4883

Daniel Kaplan

#107481

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Daniel Kaplan is a French condensed matter physicist whose main work concerns the electronic properties of semiconductors, magnetic resonance and ultra-short pulse lasers. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

#4884

Graham Noctor

#124012

Overall Influence

#4885

Michael Tuts

#54641

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Philip Michael Tuts is an American high-energy experimental particle physicist, and Professor and Chair of the Columbia University Physics Department. Tuts is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He holds a seat on the executive committees of the United States LHC Users' Association and the American Physics Society Forum on Physics and Society, and is Divisional Councilor of the Division of Particles and Fields of APS. Tuts earned his Bachelor's in Physics from MIT in 1974, and his MA and PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1976 and 1979, respectively. He joined t...

#4886

Hartmut Haug

#124029

Overall Influence

#4887

Ernst Helmut Brandt

#124044

Overall Influence

#4888

Jens Randel Nyengaard

#124063

Overall Influence

#4889

Sotir Kuneshka

#73466

Overall Influence

1912 - 1991 (79 years)

Sotir Kuneshka was an Albanian physicist and academic. He is remembered as the first to perform physics studies in Albania, the founder of the Natural Sciences Faculty of the University of Tirana , the first physicist to become member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania, and the author of the base academic texts of physics in Albanian.

#4890

Jarita Holbrook

#103871

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Jarita Charmian Holbrook is an American astronomer and associate professor of physics at the University of the Western Cape where they are principal investigator of the Astronomy & Society group. Holbrook's work examines the relationship between humans and the night sky, and they have produced scientific publications on cultural astronomy, starburst galaxies, and star formation regions.

#4891

Robert P. Gilmore

#124087

Overall Influence

#4892

Deidre Hunter

#116818

Overall Influence

Deidre A. Hunter is an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory. Her primary research area is tiny irregular galaxies — their origins, evolution and star production, and the shapes that are formed. She uses many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and includes spectroscopy in her approach.

#4893

Geoffrey Blake

#124108

Overall Influence

#4894

Executive Summary

#124124

Overall Influence

#4895

Vincent Moncrief

#92602

Overall Influence

Vincent Edward Moncrief is an American mathematician and physicist at Yale University. He works in relativity and mathematical physics. Moncrief earned his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Maryland College Park under the supervision of Charles William Misner and worked subsequently at the University of California Berkeley and at the University of Utah. He grew up in Oklahoma City.

#4896

Minh Quang Tran

Minh Quang Tran

#94935

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Minh-Quảng Trần is a professor at the EPFL. He graduated in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1973, where he did his doctoral thesis in 1977, and where he has worked as a professor since 1980. He works at the Swiss Plasma Center , with the Tokamak à configuration variable.

#4897

Leo Palatnik

#96101

Overall Influence

1909 - 1994 (85 years)

Leo Samoylovich Palatnik ; was an outstanding Ukrainian physicist known for his contributions in the field of thin film physics and film material. External links Leo Palatnik

#4898

Robert Otto Pohl

#99400

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Robert Otto Pohl is a German-American physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics topics such as solid state physics, thermal conductivity, and thin films, who is the Goldwin Smith Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cornell University where he has been on the faculty since the 1950s.

#4899

L. Eonid A. Pastur

#124227

Overall Influence

#4900

Michael C. F. Wiescher

#122959

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Michael C. F. Wiescher is a German-American experimental nuclear physicist and astrophysicist, known for his laboratory research in nuclear physics connected with various astrophysical phenomena such as stellar evolution and explosion environments.

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