Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne

male, 69 years old (Pasadena, California, United States)
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for...
Marcel Grossmann

Marcel Grossmann

male, deceased (1936)
Marcel Grossmann (born in Budapest on April 9, 1878 - died in Zurich on September 7, 1936) was a mathematician, a friend, and a classmate of Albert...
Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman

male, 61 years old (Concord, Massachusetts, United States)
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in...
Julian Barbour

Julian Barbour

male, 72 years old
Julian Barbour (born 1937) is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity. He is the author of "The End of Time: The Next...
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich

Erwin Finlay-Freundlich

male, deceased (1964)
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich [Scottish name:"Finlay"] was a German astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein. He was born in Biebrich, Germany. Freundlich was...
Abhas Mitra

Abhas Mitra

male, 109 years old
Abhas Mitra is an Indian physicist. He published a paper in the peer reviewed journal "Foundation of Physics Letters" (December 2000) claiming that...

Abraham Zelmanov

male, deceased (1987)
Abraham Zelmanov — a prominent scientist working in the General Theory of Relativity and cosmology. He first constructed, in 1944, the complete ma...
David B. Malament

David B. Malament

male
David B. Malament is an American philosopher of science. He received a B.A. in mathematics 1968 at Columbia College and Ph.D. in philosophy 1975 at...
J. W. N. Sullivan

J. W. N. Sullivan

male, deceased (1937)
John William Navin Sullivan, was a popular science writer and literary journalist, and the author of a study of Beethoven. He wrote some of the...