Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun

male, deceased (1977) (United States)
Aerospace engineer, rocket, NASA personnel, Early spaceflight scientist, Saturn V, v-2 rocket…physicist
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 - June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket...
Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie

male, deceased (1906)
physicist, 1859-1906, piezoelectric effects, French road accident victim, sorbonne, jacques
Pierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in...
Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry

male, deceased (1878)
electricity, electromagnetism, from Albany, New York, electrical engineering, scientist, induction…physicist
Joseph Henry (December 17 1797 - May 13 1878) was a Scottish-American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution....
John Bardeen

John Bardeen

male, deceased (1991)
1908-1991, Erdős number 5, National Medal of Science recipient, Nobel laureate in Physics, Semiconductor physicist, American electrical engineer…physicist
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in physics: in 1956 for the...
Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

female, deceased (1968)
Jewish, radioactivity, physicist, Enrico Fermi Award recipient, Nuclear physicist, 1878-1968
I n 1945, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Otto Hahn for the discovery of nuclear fission, overlooking...
Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman

male, 61 years old (Concord, Massachusetts, United States)
Einstein's Dreams, Princeton University alumni, Harvard University, White Station High School, phi beta kappa, Tennessee writer…physicist, physicist and novelist
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in...
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…Theoretical physicist, physicist, Particle physicist
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for...
John Hagelin

John Hagelin

male, 55 years old (Fairfield, Iowa, United States)
John Samuel Hagelin, Maharishi University of Management, defined Erdős–Bacon number, From Pittsburgh, Particle physicist, Ig Nobel Prize winner…physicist
John Samuel Hagelin, scientist, educator, and three-time, third-party candidate for President of the United States, is Professor of Physics,...
Alan Guth

Alan Guth

male, 62 years old
Stanford University, Alan Harvey Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, WMAP, cosmic inflation, Eddington Medal…physicist
Alan Harvey Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory...
John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler

male, 98 years old
Theoretical physicist, coiner of 'black hole', Relativists, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Johns Hopkins University alumni, black hole…Particle physicist, physicist
John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he...