Giorgio Parisi

Giorgio Parisi

male, 61 years old
optimization, physicist, disordered system, optimization theory, Dirac Medal, Boltzmann Medal…quantumfieldtheory
Giorgio Parisi (Rome, August 4 1948-) is an influential Italian theoretical physicist. He is best known for his works concerning statistical...
Simon Donaldson

Simon Donaldson

male, 52 years old
Oxford University, Erdős number 4, quantumfieldtheory, All Souls College, Oxford, Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford, Worcester College, Oxford…gauge theory
Simon Kirwan Donaldson, born in Cambridge in 1957, is an English mathematician famous for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable)...

Arthur Wightman

male, 87 years old
Princeton University, Arthur Jaffe, Wightman axioms, Jerrold Marsden, Arthur Strong Wightman, International Mathematical Physics Congress…quantumfieldtheory
Arthur Strong Wightman is an American mathematical physicist. He is one of the founders of quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman...
John Stewart Bell

John Stewart Bell

male, deceased (1990)
Atomicness Energy Research Establishment, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Mercer University alumni, Ulster-Scot, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, University of Wisconsin-Madison…quantum mechanics, quantumfieldtheory, quantum physics
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...

Jan Smit

male
dutch, physicist, UCLA, University of Amsterdam, finkelstein, quantumfieldtheory
Jan Smit is a Dutch theoretical physicist. During his PhD at UCLA with professor Finkelstein he made some early contributions to lattice...
C.R. Hagen

C.R. Hagen

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Higgs boson, Higgs mechanism, University of Rochester faculty, quantumfieldtheory, Ph.D.
Carl Richard Hagen is a professor of particle physics at the University of Rochester. He is most noted for his co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism...

Gerald Feinberg

male, deceased (1992)
physicist, Futurist, American, Cryonics, foresight institute, quantumfieldtheory…quantum field
Gerald Feinberg was an American physicist and futurist. He coined the term tachyon for hypothetical faster-than-light particles and analysed their...
Heinz Pagels

Heinz Pagels

male, deceased (1988)
physicist, Perfect Symmetry, Heinz Rudolf Pagels, chiral symmetry breaking, Departures from Chiral Symmetry, Quantum chromodynamics…quantumfieldtheory
Heinz Rudolf Pagels (1939 - July 23, 1988) was an American physicist. He was an adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the...
Bruno Zumino

Bruno Zumino

male
physicist, Italian, Theoretical physicist, University of Rome, University of California, Berkeley, quantumfieldtheory…conformal field theory, quantum field theories, conformal field theories
Bruno Zumino is an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He got his bachelor degre from the...
Walter Heitler

Walter Heitler

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