Jim Peebles

Jim Peebles

male, 74 years old
Philip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25 1935) is an Canadian-American physicist and theoretical cosmologist. He is usually known by the name...
Willem de Sitter

Willem de Sitter

male, deceased (1934)
Willem de Sitter (May 6 1872, Sneek - November 20 1934, Leiden <sup></sup>) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Born in Friesland,...

Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman

male, deceased (1925)
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman or Friedmann (June 16 1888, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia - September 16 1925, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian...
Neil Turok

Neil Turok

male (South Africa)
Dr. Neil Turok earned his PhD at Imperial College. After a postdoc in Santa Barbara, he was appointed Associate Scientist at Fermilab before moving...
Robert H. Dicke

Robert H. Dicke

male, deceased (1997)
Robert Henry Dicke (May 6 1916 - March 4 1997) was an American physicist, who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic...
Marc Davis

Marc Davis

male, 62 years old
Marc Davis (born 8 September 1947) is a Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Davis received his bachelor's...

Sean M. Carroll

male, 43 years old
Sean M. Carroll (b. 1966) is a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is a...
Alexander Vilenkin

Alexander Vilenkin

male
Alexander Vilenkin is Professor of Physics and Director of the "Institute of Cosmology" at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been...

David Todd Wilkinson

male, deceased (2002)
David Todd Wilkinson (13 May 1935 - 5 September 2002) was a world-renowned pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the...
Carl Wilhelm Wirtz

Carl Wilhelm Wirtz

male
Carl Wilhelm Wirtz (24 August 1876, Krefeld - 18 February 1938, Hamburg) was an astronomer who spent his time between Germany and the Observatory...