Max Planck

Max Planck

male, deceased (1947)
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...
Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi

male, deceased (1954)
Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear...
Nima Arkani-Hamed

Nima Arkani-Hamed

male, 37 years old
Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972) is a leading particle physicist and applied string theorist. He was born in the USA to Iranian parents (also...
Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall

female, 47 years old
Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology. She works on...
David Gross

David Gross

male, 68 years old
David Jonathan Gross is an American particle physicist and string theorist (although he's stated to the Brazilian newspaper "Folha de São Paulo", o...
Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann

male, 80 years old
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics...
Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs

male, 80 years old
Peter Ware Higgs (born May 29, 1929), FRSE, FRS, until recently held a personal chair in theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh and is...
Raman Sundrum

Raman Sundrum

male
Raman Sundrum is a particle physicist. His most famous discovery, made in 1999 with Lisa Randall, is the Randall-Sundrum models. Sundrum is a...
Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram

male, 50 years old
Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, author, and business leader. He is the creator of Mathematica , the author of A New Kind of Science , and the...
Chen Ning Yang

Chen Ning Yang

male, 87 years old
Zhen-Ning Franklin Yang (born 22 September, 1922) is a Chinese-born American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles....