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
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of...
Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne

male, 69 years old (Pasadena, California, United States)
Caltech, california institute of technology, Relativists, Astrophysicist, gravitation physics, California Institute of Technology alumni
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for...
Christof Koch

Christof Koch

male, 53 years old
PhD, Consciousness studies, Neurobiology, Tubingen, neuroscience, consciousness…Caltech
Christof Koch is an American neuroscientist educated in North Africa and Europe. He received a PhD in nonlinear information processing from the Max...
Gordon Moore

Gordon Moore

male, 80 years old
Intel person, Moore's Law, Silicon Valley, San José State University alumni, computer pioneer, chief executive…chairman emeritus of Caltech, Caltech
Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of...
Charles Elachi

Charles Elachi

male, 62 years old
University of Southern California alumni, University of Southern California, lebanese, jet propulsion laboratory, USC, IEEE…Caltech
Charles Elachi is the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located in Pasadena, California. He has held this position since May 1, 2001...
Carolyn Porco

Carolyn Porco

female
Rings of Neptune, Planetary scientist, rings of Saturn, Cassini mission, American, Neptune…Caltech
Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist and the leader of the imaging science team on the Cassini mission <sup>,<;/sup> <sup>,<;/sup>...
Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Zewail

male, 63 years old (Pennsylvania, United States)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Wolf Prize, University of California, Berkeley, Doctor of Science, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry…Caltech
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (born February 26 1946 in Damanhur, Egypt) is an Egyptian American chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry...

Robert Kirshner

male
Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Quincy House, Center for Astrophysics, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, American Astronomical Society…Caltech
Robert Kirshner is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and an Associate Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He...
Barry Simon

Barry Simon

male, 63 years old
Putnam Fellow, Jewish person, N-body, random matrix, orthogonal polynomials, operators…Caltech
Barry Simon is an eminent American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his...

Richard Massey

male, 32 years old
physicist, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, Durham University, University of Durham, nature, nature magazine…Caltech
Dr. Richard Massey (born 14 October 1977) is a physicist currently working at Caltech. He is a graduate in Maths and Physics from the University of...