Albert Fert

Albert Fert

male
Japan Prize laureate, WolfPrize, Japan Prize, Jülich Research Center, Giant magnetoresistive effect, physicist
Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of the Giant magnetoresistive effect which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte...
Peter Lax

Peter Lax

male, 83 years old
ph.d, Scientific computing, New York University, Erdős number 3, National Medal of Science recipient, National Medal of Science…Abel Prize, WolfPrize, Wolf Prize recipient
Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926, Budapest, Hungary) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He...
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

male, deceased (2007)
physicist, Orsay University, Nobel Prize in Physics, Ecole Normale Superieure, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, lcd…Nobel Prize, Wolf Prize in Physics recipient, WolfPrize
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 in Paris - May 18, 2007 in Orsay) was a French physicist and the Nobel laureate in 1991.
Raoul Bott

Raoul Bott

male, deceased (2005)
Canadian Forces, topologist, University of Michigan, World War II, Canadian Army, Ph.D.…WolfPrize, Wolf Prize recipient
Raoul Bott, FRS (born September 24 1923, died December 20 2005) was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad...
Leon M. Lederman

Leon M. Lederman

male, 87 years old
Daniel Kaplan, Ph.D., American Physical Society, City College of New York, Doctor of Philosophy, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory…Nobel Prize in Physics, Wolf Prize in Physics recipient, WolfPrize
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his...
Maurice Goldhaber

Maurice Goldhaber

male, 98 years old
physicist, protons, Cambridge, England, electrons, antiproton, Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber…WolfPrize, Wolf Prize in Physics recipient
Maurice Goldhaber (born April 18, 1911 in Lemberg, Austria) is an American physicist, who in 1957 (with Lee Grodzins and Andrew Sunyar) established...
Yakir Aharonov

Yakir Aharonov

male, 77 years old
Jewish person, haifa, physicist, Israeli, george mason university, tel aviv university…Wolf Prize in Physics recipient, WolfPrize
Yakir Aharonov was born in 1932 in Haifa, Israel. He is a physicist specialising in Quantum Physics and holds a joint professorship at Tel Aviv...
Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Zewail

male, 63 years old (Pennsylvania, United States)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, WolfPrize, University of California, Berkeley, Doctor of Science, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry…won the Noble Prize for Chemistry
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (born February 26 1946 in Damanhur, Egypt) is an Egyptian American chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry...

László Lovász

male, 61 years old
combinatorics, University of Budapest, Eötvös University, Knuth Prize, combinatorist, Graph theorist…Gödel Prize laureate, Knuth Prize laureate, WolfPrize, Wolf Prize recipient, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
László Lovász is a mathematician, known for work in combinatorics, for which he was in 1999 awarded a Wolf Prize. In 1999 he was also awarded the...
Yuan Longping

Yuan Longping

male, 79 years old
hybrid rice, Chinese Academy of Engineering, State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, World Food Prize, erhu, motorcycling…WolfPrize, World Food Prize laureate, UNESCO Science Prize laureate
Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. His "hybrid...