David Mermin

David Mermin

male
Cornell University, Neil W. Ashcroft, Mermin-Wagner theorem, boojum, superfluidity, solid-state physics…SolidStatePhysics
In solid-state physics, N. David Mermin is a polymathic physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Mermin-Wagner theorem and his...
Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson

male, 85 years old
physicist, mathematician, futurism, quantum mechanics, International Cooperation, Space advocacy…Wolf Prize in Physics recipient, solid-state physics
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum...
Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever

male, 80 years old
Nobel Prize in Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty, solid-state physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Bergen, Norway…Nobel laureate in Physics, won the Nobel Prize for Physics
Ivar Giaever (born April 5, 1929 in Bergen, Norway) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David...
Rudolf Peierls

Rudolf Peierls

male, deceased (1995)
radar, solid-state physics, English, nuclear physics, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Birmingham, England…quantum physics
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5 1907, Berlin - September 19 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. The son of assimilated Jewish...
Sumio Iijima

Sumio Iijima

male, 70 years old
Nanotechnologist, Arizona State University, Doctor of Philosophy, NEC Corporation, Research Development Corporation of Japan, from Saitama Prefecture…solid-state physics, Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist, often cited as the discoverer of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his...
Huang Kun

Huang Kun

male, deceased (2005)
Alumni of the University of Bristol, President of the People's Republic of China, physicist, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY, Yenching University, Bristol University…solid-state physics, State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, Chinese Society of Physics, H. H. Will Physics Lab
Huang Kun (September 2 1919 - July 6 2005), born in Beijing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a well-known physicist in the...

Ta-You Wu

male
University of Michigan, americium, Tianjin, solid-state physics, atomic, molecular, and optical physics, molecular physics…the State University of New York at Buffalo
Ta-You Wu was a Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist (1907-2000) who worked in the United States, Canada, mainland China, and...

André Guinier

male, deceased (2000)
physicist, French, University of Paris, scientist, orsay, x-ray diffraction…solid-state physics
André Guinier was a French physicist who did important work in the field of X-ray diffraction and solid-state physics. He worked at the C...

Frank Nabarro

male, deceased (2006)
Jewish, physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, South African, Member of the Order of the British Empire, scientist…physics, solid-state physics
Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro <small>MBE OMS</small&gt; (7 March 1916 - 20 July 2006 in London, England) was a renowned English-born South African...
Yakov Frenkel

Yakov Frenkel

male, deceased (1952)
dislocation, Electron hole, hole, ussr, Jewish, Soviet physicist…nuclear physics, solid-state physics
Yakov Il'ich Frenkel was a Russian physicist renowned for his works in the field of Solid-state physics. He is also known as Jacov Frenkel. He was...