Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

male, deceased (1988) (FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, United States)
scientist, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, physicist, Caltech, free spirit, Princeton University alumni…quantum computing, Quantum Electrodynamics' physicist, quantumelectrodynamics
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of...
Julian Schwinger

Julian Schwinger

male, deceased (1994) (Berkeley, United States)
Harvard University, Columbia University, I.I. Rabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, physicist, World War II…quantum physics, quantumelectrodynamics, Quantum Electrodynamics' physicist
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He formulated the theory of renormalization...
Abdus Salam

Abdus Salam

male, deceased (1996)
Electro-Weak Theory, quantumelectrodynamics, Ahmadis, Adams Prize, Nobel Laureate, Muslim
Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab - November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who...
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

male, deceased (1979)
physicist, Nobel Laureate, Japanese, Nobel laureate in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Quantum Electrodynamics' physicist…quantumelectrodynamics
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga or Shinichirō Tomonaga was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he w...
Lev Landau

Lev Landau

male, deceased (1968)
physicist, 1908-1968, Hero of Socialist Labor, Russian, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University, theoretical physics…quantum mechanics, quantumelectrodynamics
Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 - April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist of Jewish origin who made fundamental contributions to...
Polykarp Kusch

Polykarp Kusch

male, deceased (1993)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, electron, Case Western Reserve University, physicist, German-American, German…quantumelectrodynamics
Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate...
Horace Lamb

Horace Lamb

male, deceased (1934)
physicist, 1849-1934, Academic of the University of Manchester, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Maxwell's equations, Victoria University of Manchester…quantumelectrodynamics
Sir Horace Lamb FRS (November 29, 1849 - December 4, 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical...
Walter Heitler

Walter Heitler

male, deceased (1981)
Jewish, physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, German, British, zurich…quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, quantumelectrodynamics
Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry...
James Bjorken

James Bjorken

male
Stanford University, James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken, hadron, Quantum chromodynamics, quantumelectrodynamics, Nobel Prize in Physics
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken is an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954 and obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in...
Giuliano Preparata

Giuliano Preparata

male, deceased (2000)
Harvard University, Princeton University, New York University, physicist, theoretical physics, Italian…quantum field theory, quantumelectrodynamics, Quantum chromodynamics
Giuliano Preparata, (Padova, Italy, 1942 - Frascati, Italy, 2000) was an Italian physicist. He attended the High School Umberto I of Rome (the same...