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…Nuclear physicist, nuclearphysics
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a...
Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

female, deceased (1968)
Jewish, radioactivity, physicist, Enrico Fermi Award recipient, Nuclear physicist, 1878-1968…physics, nuclearphysics, Doctorate in Physics
I n 1945, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Otto Hahn for the discovery of nuclear fission, overlooking...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…nuclearphysics, quantum physics
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

male, deceased (1989)
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Soviet physicist, Nobel Peace Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Soviet dissident…nuclearphysics, Soviet nuclear program, nuclear, French Physics Society
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21 1921 – December 14 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sa...
Rudolf Peierls

Rudolf Peierls

male, deceased (1995)
radar, solid-state physics, English, nuclearphysics, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Birmingham, England…quantum physics
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5 1907, Berlin - September 19 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. The son of assimilated Jewish...
Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy

male, 59 years old
professor, islamabad, environmental, nuclearphysics, women's rights, Quaid-e-Azam University…Nuclear technology in Pakistan, Nuclear physicist, Physics Dept
Pervez HOODBHOY (Islamabad, Pakistan) is professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He holds a Ph.D in nuclear physics from the...
Otto Robert Frisch

Otto Robert Frisch

male, deceased (1979)
Kungälv, London, England, atomic bomb, Manhattan Project, Refugee, British…Nuclear physicist, nuclearphysics
Otto Robert Frisch (1 October 1904-22 September 1979), Austrian-British physicist. With his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first...
Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili

male (United Kingdom)
Academic of the University of Surrey, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, nuclearphysics, Alumni of the University of Surrey, Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, B.Sc.…Nuclear physicist, Department of Physics, Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Jim Al-Khalili Jim Al-Khalili Jim Al-Khalili is professor of physics, and professor of the public engagement in science, at the University of Surrey.
Education: PhD theoretical nuclear physics
Raja Ramanna

Raja Ramanna

male, deceased (2004)
nuclearphysics, Operation Smiling Buddha, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Padma Shri recipient, Tumkur, V.P. Singh…nuclear science, nuclear test, Nuclear technology in India, nuclear scientist
Raja Ramanna (1925 - September 23, 2004) born in Tumkur, Karnataka, was an Indian nuclear scientist and was associated with the country's first...
Antonino Zichichi

Antonino Zichichi

male, 80 years old
from the Province of Trapani, Nuclear physicist, global warming skeptic, Science writer, scientist, Italian…nuclearphysics
Antonino Zichichi (born october 15 1929) is an Italian physicist who has worked in the field of nuclear physics.