John Carew Eccles

John Carew Eccles

male, deceased (1997)
University at Buffalo alumni, rhodes scholar, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Erdős number 3, Sir John Carew Eccles
Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 - May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek

male, 58 years old
asymptotic freedom, strong interaction, American, Quantum Chromodynamics' physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel laureate in Physics…Erdős number 3
Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a Nobel prize-winning American theoretical physicist. Along with H. David Politzer and David Gross, he was...
Willis Lamb

Willis Lamb

male, 96 years old
University of Arizona faculty, American, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Erdős number 3, University of California, Berkeley alumni
Willis Eugene Lamb, Junior (born July 12, 1913) is a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine...
Wendelin Werner

Wendelin Werner

male, 41 years old
Loève Prize, Fermat Prize, Fields Medal, random walk, Oded Schramm, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie…Erdős number 3
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related...
John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler

male, 98 years old
Theoretical physicist, coiner of 'black hole', Relativists, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Johns Hopkins University alumni, black hole…Erdős number 3
John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he...
Stephen Cook

Stephen Cook

male
Buffalo, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Erdős number 3
Stephen Arthur Cook (born 1939, Buffalo, New York) is a noted computer scientist. Cook formalised the notion of NP-completeness in a famous 1971...

Daniel Gorenstein

male, deceased (1992)
Daniel E. Gorenstein, Erdős number 3, National Academy of Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, Steele Prize, Northeastern University, Boston
Daniel E. Gorenstein (January 1, 1923-August 26, 1992) was an American mathematician. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard...
Jean Leray

Jean Leray

male, deceased (1998)
mathematician, prisoner of war, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, Mathematical analyst, French, University of Paris…Erdős number 3
Jean Leray was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. He was born in Nantes. He studied...
Edward Witten

Edward Witten

male, 58 years old (United States)
Jewish person, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, American, m-theory, Fields Medalist, string theorist…Erdős number 3
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He...
Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager

male, deceased (1976)
Yale University, Yale University alumni, Theoretical physicist, engineer, Chemist, naturalized citizen of the United States…Erdős number 3
Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 - October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel...