Steven Chu

Steven Chu

male, 61 years old
Steven Chu, born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American experimental physicist. He is known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of...
Bruno Rossi

Bruno Rossi

male, deceased (1993)
Bruno B. Rossi (April 13, 1905 - November 21, 1993) was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic...
Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul

male, deceased (1993)
Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
Robert R. Wilson

Robert R. Wilson

male, deceased (2000)
Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914 - January 16, 2000) was an American physicist who was a group leader of the Manhattan Project, a sculptor, and...
Ferenc Krausz

Ferenc Krausz

male, 47 years old
Ference Krausz was born 17 may 1962 in Mór, Hungary. Krausz studied theoretical physics at Eötvös Loránd University and electronics at the Tech...

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

male, deceased (1923)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (in English: William Conrad Roentgen was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, pr...
Owen Chamberlain

Owen Chamberlain

male, deceased (2006)
Owen Chamberlain was a prominent American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1959 with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their d...
Brian Cox

Brian Cox

male
Dr Brian Cox (B. E. Cox) is an experimental physicist and Royal Society University Research Fellow. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

male, deceased (1799)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship...
Gustav Mie

Gustav Mie

male, deceased (1957)
Gustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig Mie was a German physicist. From 1886 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Rostock. Beside...