Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
Employment: American physicist
Isidor Isaac Rabi

Isidor Isaac Rabi

male, deceased (1988)
Isidor Isaac Rabi was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-born physicist. Rabi was born in Rymanów, Galicia, Austrian Empire (now Poland), and was b...
Frederick Seitz

Frederick Seitz

male, 98 years old
Seitz received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1932, and then a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1934. During World War II, he...

Murray Gell-Mann

male
MURRAY GELL-MANN : Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics for the discovery of the Quark. Professor of Physics at Caltech and founder of the Santa Fe...

Charles Townes

male
CHARLES TOWNES : Inventor of the laser and maser and Nobel Laureate in Physics, former Provost of MIT and presently, University Professor at...

Karl Jansky

male
Karl Jansky 's work from 1928 to 1932, leading to the discovery which laid the foundation for the science of radio astronomy, contains many lessons...

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

 (Berkeley)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born on August 8, 1901 in Canton, South Dakota. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at St. Olaf College in...
Employment: American physicist

Carl Wieman

 (Corvallis, Oregon)
Wieman, considered to be one of the premier physicists of his generation, will receive the Doctor of Science degree. He is professor of physics and...
Employment: American physicist - the University of British Columbia

Robert Hutchings Goddard

Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was a prominent pioneer in the fields of rocketry and spaceflight theory. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Clark...
Employment: American physicist