Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle

male, deceased (1984)
Sir Martin Ryle (September 27, 1918 - October 14, 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see...
Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Wien

male, deceased (1928)
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (January 13, 1864 - August 30, 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and...
Antony Hewish

Antony Hewish

male, 85 years old
Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow...
James Rainwater

James Rainwater

male, deceased (1986)
Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical...
Philipp Lenard

Philipp Lenard

male, deceased (1947)
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lénárd was a Hungarian-German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on ca...
Polykarp Kusch

Polykarp Kusch

male, deceased (1993)
Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate...
J. Hans D. Jensen

J. Hans D. Jensen

male, deceased (1973)
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (June 25, 1907 - February 11, 1973) was a German physicist who shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with...
Leon Cooper

Leon Cooper

male, 79 years old
Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John...
Alfred Kastler

Alfred Kastler

male, deceased (1984)
Alfred Kastler was a French (German-born) physicist, born in Guebwiller, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966. Kastler went to the Lycée B...
George Paget Thomson

George Paget Thomson

male, deceased (1975)
Sir George Paget Thomson FRS (May 3, 1892 - September 10, 1975) was a Nobel-Prize-winning, English physicist who discovered the wave properties of...