Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall

female, 47 years old
Randall-Sundrum model, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University, American Physical Society, string theorist, Standard Model…Particle physicist, physicist, Theoretical physicist
Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology. She works on...
Heraclitus

Heraclitus

male
ionia, Efes, physicist, Herakleitos the Ephesian, Herákleitos ho Ephésios, Process philosophy
Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca. 535-475 BCE) (Ancient Greek: - ("Herakleitos the Ephesian")), known as "The Obscure" (Ancient Greek -), was a...
Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

male, deceased (2005)
physicist, 1906-2005, From Strasbourg, nuclear weapon design, From Ithaca, New York, University of Munich alumni
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced "BAY-tuh"); (July 2 1906--March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
Nima Arkani-Hamed

Nima Arkani-Hamed

male, 37 years old
University of California, Berkeley alumni, Stock Exchange of Visions, University of Toronto alumni, Harvard University faculty, immigrant to Canada, Particle physicist…physicist
Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972) is a leading particle physicist and applied string theorist. He was born in the USA to Iranian parents (also...
Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark

male, 42 years old
University of Pennsylvania, physical cosmology, multiverse, large-scale structure, cosmic microwave background, Sloan Digital Sky Survey…physicist
Max Tegmark (born 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he...
Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Lorentz

male, deceased (1928)
Leiden University faculty, Relativists, Leiden University alumni, From arnhem, zeeman effect, arnhem…physicist
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem - February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with...
Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

male, deceased (1989)
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Soviet physicist, Nobel Peace Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Soviet dissident…physicist
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21 1921 – December 14 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sa...
Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen

male, 69 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
global warming skeptic, Bert Bolin, atmospheric physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, planetary waves, KNMI…atmospheric physicist, physicist
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the...
George Gamow

George Gamow

male, deceased (1968)
physicist, 1904-1968, University of California, Berkeley, quantum tunneling, Russian, University of Colorado
George Gamow (March 4, 1904 - August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian born theoretical physicist...
Peter Woit

Peter Woit

male
supersymmetric, degrees of freedom, Quantum Gravity, Standard Model, lecturer, pauli exclusion principle…physicist
Peter Woit is a mathematical physicist at Columbia University. He obtained his PhD in particle theory from Princeton University in 1985, followed...