Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer

male, deceased (1967)
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the... More
Frank Oppenheimer

Frank Oppenheimer

male, deceased (1985)
Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 - February 3, 1985) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a target of... More
Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

male, 61 years old
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring... More
Steven Chu

Steven Chu

male, 60 years old
Steven Chu, born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American experimental physicist. He is known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of... More
George Smoot

George Smoot

male, 63 years old
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20 1945) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John... More
Nima Arkani-Hamed

Nima Arkani-Hamed

male, 36 years old
Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972) is a leading particle physicist and applied string theorist. He was born in the USA to Iranian parents (also... More
Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark

male, 41 years old
Max Tegmark (born 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he... More
Robert Birgeneau

Robert Birgeneau

male
Robert Joseph Birgeneau, a Canadian physicist, is the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, having assumed this position on... More
George Gamow

George Gamow

male, deceased (1968)
George Gamow (March 4, 1904 - August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian born theoretical physicist... More
Ernest Lawrence

Ernest Lawrence

male, deceased (1958)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron... More