Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

male, deceased (1976)
Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, German nuclear energy project, scientist, wartime nuclear energy program, physicist…Erdős number 4
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and acknowledged to be one...
Edward Teller

Edward Teller

male, deceased (2003)
physicist, thermonuclear, theoretical physics, World War II, nuclear fusion, scientist…Erdős number 4
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name "Teller Ede") (January 15 1908 - September 9 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical...
Paul Davies

Paul Davies

male, 63 years old
Member of ISSR, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Mars, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, Erdős number 4, quantum field theory
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor...
John Forbes Nash Jr.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

male, 81 years old
20th century mathematician, a beautiful mind, game theory, john nash, Nobel Prize in Economics winner, game theorist…Erdős number 4
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13 1928) is an American mathematician who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential...
Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne

male, 69 years old (Pasadena, California, United States)
Caltech, california institute of technology, Relativists, Astrophysicist, gravitation physics, California Institute of Technology alumni…Erdős number 4
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for...
David Spiegelhalter

David Spiegelhalter

male, 56 years old
Professor of the Pubic Understanding of Risk, Erdős number 4, scientist, David John Spiegelhalter, Academic of Brunel University, Alumni of University College London
David John Spiegelhalter FRS (16 August 1953 -) is a statistician. He is now Professor of the Pubic Understanding of Risk at the University of...
Rolf Landauer

Rolf Landauer

male, deceased (1999)
Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Erdős number 4, entropy, heat, energy, reversible computing…born on 4 February 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany
Rolf Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 demonstrated that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes...
David Hilbert

David Hilbert

male, deceased (1943)
Relativists, craters of the Moon named after them, German native of East Prussia, Functional Analysis, Mathematical analyst, contributor to general relativity…Number theorist, Erdős number 4
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th...

Shaun Wylie

male
Old Dragon, Princeton University, topologist, Wellington College, Berkshire, Erdős number 4, Old Dragons
Shaun Wylie is a British mathematician and former World War II codebreaker. Wylie was born in Oxford, England, and educated at Dragon School and...
Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale

male, 79 years old (Flint, Michigan, United States)
University of Chicago, nuclear physics, National Medal of Science recipient, Erdős number 4, Wolf Prize recipient, Poincaré conjecture
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. He entered the...