Chien-Shiung Wu

Chien-Shiung Wu

female, deceased (1997)
Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese born American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. She worked on the Manhattan Project (to enrich the...
Masatoshi Koshiba

Masatoshi Koshiba

male, 83 years old
Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊 "Koshiba Masatoshi", born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobe...
Leon M. Lederman

Leon M. Lederman

male, 87 years old
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...
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

male, deceased (2007)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 in Paris - May 18, 2007 in Orsay) was a French physicist and the Nobel laureate in 1991.
Kenneth G. Wilson

Kenneth G. Wilson

male, 73 years old
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned...
Gerardus 'T Hooft

Gerardus 'T Hooft

male, 63 years old
Gerardus ("Gerard") 't Hooft (born July 5 1946, Den Helder) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared...
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

male, 67 years old
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler

male, 98 years old
John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he...
Mitchell Feigenbaum

Mitchell Feigenbaum

male, 64 years old
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (born December 19 1944; Philadelphia, USA) is a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the...