Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

male, 67 years old
black holes, Quantum Gravity, theoretical physics, physicist, agnostic, cosmology…contributor to general relativity, generalrelativity
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose

male, 78 years old
scientist, cosmology, University of Oxford, Erdős number 3, recreational mathematics, generalrelativity…contributor to general relativity
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the...
Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne

male, 69 years old (Pasadena, California, United States)
Caltech, california institute of technology, Relativists, Astrophysicist, gravitation physics, California Institute of Technology alumni…generalrelativity, general theory of relativity, contributor to general relativity
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for...
Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall

female, 47 years old
Randall-Sundrum model, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University, American Physical Society, string theorist, Standard Model…generalrelativity
Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology. She works on...
David Hilbert

David Hilbert

male, deceased (1943)
Relativists, craters of the Moon named after them, German native of East Prussia, Functional Analysis, Mathematical analyst, contributor to general relativity…generalrelativity
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th...
Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl

male, deceased (1955)
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, Relativists, philosophy, Number theorist, Differential geometer, logic…contributor to general relativity, generalrelativity
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich and then Princeton, he is closely i...

John Stachel

male, 81 years old
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Einstein Papers Project, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Studies, Boston University Center for Einstein Studies, University of Pittsburgh…generalrelativity
John Stachel (born 1928) is an American physicist and philosopher of science. Stachel earned his PhD at Stevens Institute of Technology in Physics...
Matt Visser

Matt Visser

male
professor, cosmology, quantum field theory, Victoria University of Wellington, mathematics, generalrelativity
Matt Visser is a mathematics Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. Some of his research interests include General Relativity, Quantum...
Bernhard Riemann

Bernhard Riemann

male, deceased (1866) (Guadeloupe)
from Lower Saxony, differential geometry, mathematician, German, Differential geometer, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann…generalrelativity
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (pronounced "REE mahn" or in ; September 17, 1826 - July 20, 1866) was a German mathematician who made important...
Theodor Kaluza

Theodor Kaluza

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