Max Planck

Max Planck

male, deceased (1947)
Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, physicist, quantum mechanics, quantum theory, Particle physics…University of Munich alumni, Humboldt University of Berlin alumni, MemberofthePontificalAcademyofSciences
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and therefore one of the most important...
Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

male, deceased (1962)
physicist, Quantum Theory physicist, scientist, Danish, Nobel Prize, quantum mechanics…University of Copenhagen, Academic of the Victoria University of Manchester, Knight of the Elephant, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, MemberofthePontificalAcademyofSciences
Niels (Henrik David) Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for...
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

male, 67 years old
black holes, Quantum Gravity, theoretical physics, physicist, agnostic, cosmology…Academic of the University of Cambridge, a brief history of time, Alumni of University College, Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Prince of Asturias Award winner
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
Max Perutz

Max Perutz

male, deceased (2002)
Jewish, MemberofthePontificalAcademyofSciences, World War II, Biologist, Biophysicist, Member of the Order of Merit…The New York Review of Books, Order of Merit, Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM (May 19 1914 - February 6 2002) was an Austrian-British molecular biologist. He was born in Vienna in 1914. In 1936 he...
Fotis Kafatos

Fotis Kafatos

male (Germany)
Anopheles gambiae, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, mosquito, Cloning, Biologist, drosophila melanogaster…MemberofthePontificalAcademyofSciences, University of Athens, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Crete
Fotis C. Kafatos (born in Heraklion,Crete, Greece) is a prominent Greek biologist. Kafatos received his Bachelor's degree at Cornell University,...
Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac

male, deceased (1984) (Houston, Texas, United States)
Dirac equation, Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Florida State University faculty, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Florida State University…Member of the Order of Merit, University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society, Order of Merit, MemberofthePontificalAcademyofSciences
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum...

Georges Lemaître

male, deceased (1966)
velocity-distance relation, Father Georges Henri Joseph Éduard Lemaître, Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Leuven alumni before 1968, Relativists, Arthur Eddington…metric expansion of space, MemberofthePontificalAcademyofSciences
Father Georges Henri Joseph Éduard Lemaître was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of physics and astronomer. Fr. (l...
Michael Heller

Michael Heller

male, 73 years old
University of Arizona, Catholic University of Louvain, Liege University, Tarnów, Academic of the University of Leicester, cosmology…Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Theology, University of Lublin, Technical University of Cracow, University of Oxford
Michael Heller, (birth: October 14, 1936 - USA) is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, Poland, and an...
Tsung-Dao Lee

Tsung-Dao Lee

male, 82 years old
Tsinghua University alumni, American, Columbia University faculty, Columbia University, chinese, secondary…University of Chicago, MemberofthePontificalAcademyofSciences, University of Chicago alumni
During the years 1950-53, Lee worked as a research associate and lecturer at Yerkes Astronomical Observatory, Wisconsin; at the University of...
Antonino Zichichi

Antonino Zichichi

male, 80 years old
from the Province of Trapani, Nuclear physicist, global warming skeptic, Science writer, scientist, Italian…MemberofthePontificalAcademyofSciences
Antonino Zichichi (born october 15 1929) is an Italian physicist who has worked in the field of nuclear physics.