Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs

male, 80 years old
Peter Ware Higgs (born May 29, 1929), FRSE, FRS, until recently held a personal chair in theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh and is...
Burton Richter

Burton Richter

male, 78 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
Burton Richter (born March 22 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. A native of New York City, he attended MIT, where he received his...
Simon van der Meer

Simon van der Meer

male, 84 years old
Simon van der Meer (born November 24, 1925, The Hague) is a Dutch accelerator physicist who invented the concept of stochastic cooling in...

Rolf Wideröe

male, deceased (1996)
Rolf Wideröe, Norwegian particle physicist, was born in Oslo. In 1920, he studied physics in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1924, he returned to Norway, b...
Anatoli Bugorski

Anatoli Bugorski

male, 67 years old
Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski is a Russian scientist who was involved in an accident with a particle accelerator in 1978.

Christine Sutton

female
Dr. Christine Sutton is a physicist associated with the Particle Physics Group in the Physics Department of the University of Oxford. Sutton is...
Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez

male, deceased (1988)
Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed Nobel Prize-winning physicist of Spanish...
Vladimir Veksler

Vladimir Veksler

male, deceased (1966)
Vladimir Veksler (March 3, 1907, Zhytomyr, now Ukraine - September 22, 1966, Moscow) was a prominent Soviet experimental physicist. Veksler's...
John Stewart Bell

John Stewart Bell

male, deceased (1990)
John Stewart Bell (June 28 1928 - October 1 1990) was a physicist, and the originator of Bell's Theorem, one of the most important theorems in...
Yoshio Nishina

Yoshio Nishina

male, deceased (1951)
Yoshio Nishina was a Japanese physicist. He was a friend of Niels Bohr, and a close associate of Albert Einstein. Nishina was a world-class...