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...
Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn

male, deceased (1968)
Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 - July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is considered a pioneer of...
Glenn Theodore Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

male, deceased (1999) (Ishpeming, Michigan)
Glenn Seaborg worked his way through UCLA in a variety of ways - as stevedore, night watchman, apricot picker and linotype mechanic apprentice,...
Leon M. Lederman

Leon M. Lederman

male, 87 years old
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his...
Edward Teller

Edward Teller

male, deceased (2003)
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name "Teller Ede") (January 15 1908 - September 9 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical...
Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

female, deceased (1968)
I n 1945, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Otto Hahn for the discovery of nuclear fission, overlooking...
E. P. Wigner

E. P. Wigner

male, deceased (1995)
Eugene Paul Wigner (November 17, 1902 - January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
John N. Bahcall

John N. Bahcall

male, deceased (2005)
John Norris Bahcall (December 30 1934 - August 17 2005) was an American astrophysicist. He is best known for his contributions to the solar...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

male, deceased (2005)
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...