Burton Richter

Burton Richter

male, 78 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
Stanford University, From Queen, StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter, Nobel laureate in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission…particle accelerator, Stanford University employee
Burton Richter (born March 22 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. A native of New York City, he attended MIT, where he received his...
Persis Drell

Persis Drell

female
Stanford University, Wellesley College alumni, StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter, Particle physicist, Particle physics, American…Stanford
Persis Drell is an American physicist best known for her expertise in the field of particle physics. She is the research director of the Stanford...
Sidney Drell

Sidney Drell

male, 83 years old
Enrico Fermi Award, physicist, los alamos national laboratory, Particle physicist, U.S. Government, StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter…Stanford University faculty
Sidney Drell is professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. James Goodby was an adviser to...
Helen Quinn

Helen Quinn

female, 66 years old
Particle physics, Particle physicist, Victoria, Australia, Quarks, Harvard University, German Synchrotron Laboratory…StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter, Stanford University
Helen Quinn is a particle physicist who was born in Australia in 1943. She went to school in Victoria, Australia and entered college at the...
Paul Kunz

Paul Kunz

male
software developer, HippoDraw, Terry Hung, Louise Addis, NEXTSTEP, StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter
Particle physicist and software developer Paul Kunz initiated the deployment of the first web server outside of Europe. After a meeting with Tim...
Michael Peskin

Michael Peskin

male
Harvard Society of Fellow, linear collider, Kenneth Wilson, Harvard Society of Fellows, quantum field theory, New Trier High School alumni…StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter
Michael Peskin is an American theoretical physicist. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at Cornell...
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

male, 90 years old
Matteucci Medal, Wolfgang K.H. "Pief" Panofsky, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, National Medal of Science recipient, University of California, Berkeley, StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter…Stanford, Stanford University faculty
Wolfgang K.H. "Pief" Panofsky (born April 24 1919), a German-American physicist, was born the son of a renowned art historian named Erwin Panofsky....
Owen Chamberlain

Owen Chamberlain

male, deceased (2006)
Death from Parkinson's Disease, los alamos, physicist, theoretical physics, World War II, Dartmouth College alumni…StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter
Owen Chamberlain was a prominent American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1959 with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their d...
James Bjorken

James Bjorken

male
Stanford University, James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken, hadron, Quantum chromodynamics, quantum electrodynamics, Nobel Prize in Physics…StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken is an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954 and obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in...
Martin Lewis Perl

Martin Lewis Perl

male, 82 years old
Jewish, Scientists and Engineer for America, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel laureate in Physics, StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenter, Parents
Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the...