Burton Richter

Burton Richter

male, 77 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
Burton Richter (born March 22 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. A native of New York City, he attended MIT, where he received his... More
Persis Drell

Persis Drell

female
Persis Drell is an American physicist best known for her expertise in the field of particle physics. She is the research director of the Stanford... More
Sidney Drell

Sidney Drell

male, 82 years old
Sidney Drell (born September 13, 1926) is an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. He is a professor emeritus at the Stanford... More
Helen Quinn

Helen Quinn

female, 65 years old
Helen Quinn is a particle physicist who was born in Australia in 1943. She went to school in Victoria, Australia and entered college at the... More
Paul Kunz

Paul Kunz

male
Particle physicist and software developer Paul Kunz initiated the deployment of the first web server outside of Europe. After a meeting with Tim... More
Michael Peskin

Michael Peskin

male
Michael Peskin is an American theoretical physicist. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at Cornell... More
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

male, 89 years old
Wolfgang K.H. "Pief" Panofsky (born April 24 1919), a German-American physicist, was born the son of a renowned art historian named Erwin Panofsky.... More
Owen Chamberlain

Owen Chamberlain

male, deceased (2006)
Owen Chamberlain was a prominent American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1959 with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their d... More
James Bjorken

James Bjorken

male
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken is an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954 and obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in... More
Martin Lewis Perl

Martin Lewis Perl

male, 81 years old
Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the... More