Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

male, deceased (1937)
Lord Rutherford, buried at Westminster Abbey, Scottish New Zealander, English New Zealander, nucleus, Member of the Order of Merit…atomicnucleus
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a...
George Gamow

George Gamow

male, deceased (1968)
physicist, 1904-1968, University of California, Berkeley, quantum tunneling, Russian, University of Colorado…atomicnucleus
George Gamow (March 4, 1904 - August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian born theoretical physicist...
Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

female, deceased (1972)
Columbia University faculty, German native of Silesia, American, Columbia University alumni, Johns Hopkins University faculty, physicist…atomicnucleus
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 - February 20, 1972) was a German-born American physicist. In 1963 she received the Nobel Prize in Physics for...
Hans Geiger

Hans Geiger

male, deceased (1945)
craters of the Moon named after them, from Rhineland-Palatinate, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Rutherford model, physics, German…atomic bomb, atomicnucleus, atomic model
Johannes (Hans) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 - September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. He is perhaps best-known as the co-inventor of...
John Cockcroft

John Cockcroft

male, deceased (1967)
Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath, second world war, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Member of the Order of Merit, British…Atomic Energy Research Establishment, atomicnucleus
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (May 27, 1897 - September 18, 1967) was a British physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the...
E. P. Wigner

E. P. Wigner

male, deceased (1995)
Jewish, Hungarian-American, National Medal of Science recipient, Nobel laureate in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, atomicnucleus…atomic nuclei
Eugene Paul Wigner (November 17, 1902 - January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
Theodor Kaluza

Theodor Kaluza

male, deceased (1954)
Province of Silesia, atomicnucleus, Oppeln, German Empire, University of Göttingen, German native of Silesia
Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza-Klein theory involving field equations in...
Hagen Kleinert

Hagen Kleinert

male
physicist, theoretical physics, elementary particle, German, Caltech, physics…atomicnucleus
Hagen Kleinert is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of...
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

male, deceased (2007)
nuclear weapon in Germany, philosoph, From Kiel, physicist, philosopher, Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker…atomic nuclei, atomicnucleus
Carl Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the research team which t...
Paul Lauterbur

Paul Lauterbur

male, deceased (2007) (Urbana, Illinois, United States)
Biophysicist, Luxembourgian American, University of Pittsburgh alumni, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Sidney High School, nuclear magnetic resonance…atomicnucleus
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work...