John Moffat

male
Quantum Gravity physicist, physicist, cosmological, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, speedoflight, physical cosmology…Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, university of waterloo, university of toronto, Variable speed of light
John Moffat is a Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of Toronto. He is also an adjunct Professor in physics at the University of...

Günter Nimtz

male
physicist, waveguides, superluminal, Quantum tunnelling, waveguide, faster-than-light…speedoflight, University of Cologne, university of toronto
Günter Nimtz of the Physics Institute at the University of Cologne ("Universität zu Köln") in Germany has been conducting experiments that pur...
Jack Sarfatti

Jack Sarfatti

male, 70 years old
San Diego State University faculty, University of California, San Diego alumni, Cornell University alumni, Science writer, University of California, Riverside alumni, science teacher…Academic of Birkbeck, University of London, speedoflight
Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a number of popular works on quantum physics and...
Albert Abraham Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson

male, deceased (1931)
Nobel Prize winner, Polish-American, physicist, German, United States Naval Academy graduate, United States Navy officer…speedoflight
Albert Abraham Michelson (surname pronunciation anglicised as "Michael-son") (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931) was a Polish-born American physicist...

Ole Rømer

male, deceased (1710)
Ole Christensen Rømer, University of Copenhagen alumni, Danish, From Copenhagen, measurement, speedoflight
Ole Christensen Rømer was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. In the scientific l...
Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
finite speed, lenses, speedoflight, electromagnetic, empiricism, electromagnetism…Book of Optics, light, father of optics, craters of the Moon named after them
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
Léon Foucault

Léon Foucault

male, deceased (1868)
physicist, 1819-1868, speedoflight, physics, moon, foucault
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 - 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a d...
Hippolyte Fizeau

Hippolyte Fizeau

male, deceased (1896)
physicist, 1819-1896, physics, electricity, Doppler effect, condenser…speedoflight
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (September 23, 1819-1896), French physicist, was born in Paris. His earliest work was concerned with improvements in...
Louis Essen

Louis Essen

male, deceased (1997)
physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Alumni of the University of London, inventor, Alumni of the University of Nottingham, Timekeeping…speedoflight
Louis Essen (September 6, 1908 - August 24, 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time...
Peter Bardens

Peter Bardens

male, deceased (2002)
from WestmInster, Westminster, guitarist, Seen One Earth, south, fleetwood mac…speedoflight
Peter Bardens (June 19 1944 - January 22 2002) was one of the founding members of the British progressive rock group Camel, playing keyboards. Born...