Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

male, deceased (1988) (FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, United States)
scientist, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, physicist, Caltech, free spirit, Princeton University alumni…Particle physicist, Quantum Electrodynamics' physicist, Theoretical physicist, Weak Interaction physicist, Cornell University faculty
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of...
Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

male, deceased (2005)
physicist, 1906-2005, From Strasbourg, nuclear weapon design, From Ithaca, New York, University of Munich alumni…Cornell University faculty, Academic of the Victoria University of Manchester, CornellUniversity, University of Munich, cornell
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced "BAY-tuh"); (July 2 1906--March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman

male, 61 years old (Concord, Massachusetts, United States)
Einstein's Dreams, Princeton University alumni, Harvard University, White Station High School, phi beta kappa, Tennessee writer…Princeton University, CornellUniversity, physicist, Cornell University alumni, physicist and novelist
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in...
Paul Ginsparg

Paul Ginsparg

male
CornellUniversity, MacArthur Fellowship, conformal field theory, ArXiv.org e-print archive, Quantum Gravity, ARL…physicist, Cornell University faculty
Paul Ginsparg is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive. Since 2001, he has been a professor of Physics and...
Philip Morrison

Philip Morrison

male, deceased (2005)
Cornell University faculty, los alamos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor, physicist, theoretical physics…University of Chicago, CornellUniversity, University of California, Berkeley
Philip Morrison, (born 7 November 1915 in Somerville, New Jersey - died 22 April 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Institute Professor,...
Neil Gershenfeld

Neil Gershenfeld

male
Center for Bits and Atoms, Harvard Society of Fellow, nanotechnology, Swarthmore College alumni, When Things Start to Think, At&t…physicist, CornellUniversity, PhD from Cornell University, Ph.D. from Cornell University, Harvard University Society of Fellows
Let's start with the development of "personal fabrication." We've already had a digital revolution; we don't need to keep having it. The next big...
David Mermin

David Mermin

male
CornellUniversity, Neil W. Ashcroft, Mermin-Wagner theorem, boojum, superfluidity, solid-state physics…physicist
In solid-state physics, N. David Mermin is a polymathic physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Mermin-Wagner theorem and his...
Isidor Isaac Rabi

Isidor Isaac Rabi

male, deceased (1988)
physicist, 1898-1988, Nobel Prize, Oersted Medal recipient, Polish-American, Cornell University alumni…Columbia University alumni, CornellUniversity, Columbia University
Isidor Isaac Rabi was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-born physicist. Rabi was born in Rymanów, Galicia, Austrian Empire (now Poland), and was b...
Henry Tye

Henry Tye

male, 62 years old
California Institute of Technology alumni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, American, Chinese American, CornellUniversity, Ph.D.…physicist, Cornell University faculty
Henry Tye (born 1947) is a Chinese-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist most notable for proposing that a brane and an antibrane...
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