- Thomas Henry Moray
Thomas Henry Moray (August 28, 1892 - May, 1974) was an inventor from Salt Lake City, Utah. - Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin (born 1955 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. Smolin is best known for devising several different approaches to quantum gravity, in particular loop quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, … - Robbert Dijkgraaf
Robbert Dijkgraaf (1960) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. Because his former advisor Gerard 't Hooft was awarded the Spinoza prize (the Dutch equivalent of the Nobel prize), Robbert Dijkgraaf became the first recipient whose advisor was also a recipient. He works at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute of Theoretical Physics. His research group works in string theory, quantum gravity, and the interface of mathematics and particle physics. - Elliott H. Lieb
Elliott H. Lieb (born 1932 in Boston) is an eminent American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University who specializes in statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, and functional analysis. In particular, his scientific works pertain to: statistical mechanics (e.g., Bose gas sources), the quantum and classical many-body problem, the stability of matter, atomic structure, the theory of magnetism, and the Hubbard model. - Wojciech H. Zurek
Wojciech Hubert Żurek is a physicist and a Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests are in the field of quantum theory, especially decoherence, and other physics topics. His work also has a lot of potential benefit to the emerging field of quantum computing. Zurek was educated in Kraków, Poland (M.Sc. 1974) and Austin, Texas (Ph.D. 1979). He spent two years at Caltech as a Tolman Fellow, and started at LANL as a J. Oppenheimer Fellow. - Marvin D. Girardeau
Marvin D. Girardeau is a quantum physicist, currently a research professor at the University of Arizona. One of Girardeau's achievements was to predict the existence of the Tonks-Girardeau gas in 1960. A Tonks-Girardeau gas was created in 2004, and its measured properties strikingly confirmed Girardeau's original predictions. - Nicholas C. Handy
Nicholas Charles Handy (Born June 17, 1941 in Wiltshire, England) is a Professor of quantum chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. He has written 320 scientific papers published in physical and theoretical chemistry journals. He retired from his Cambridge Professorship in September 2004. - Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso has been at the forefront of optoelectronics and solid-state electronics research with continuing inventions and innovations for more than 15 years, contributing immensely to Bell Labs' reputation in these fields. He created a new field of research -- bandgap engineering -- showing how entirely new classes of electronic materials and devices can be designed through the atomic control of crystal growth made possible by molecular beam epitaxy. - Andrew Crowther Hurley
Andrew Crowther Hurley was born on 11 July 1926 and grew up at 16 Albany Road, Toorak. 'Wyuna' had almost an acre of garden, and was to be the family home for the next twenty-five years. Both the Hurley home and their holiday home at Point Lonsdale had tennis courts, which enabled Andrew to develop as a tennis player. His father was a keen golfer and he and his sons formed a four at bridge. Andrew's family soon recognised that he was unusually able. - Paul Ginsparg
- Nicholas P. Bigelow
Prof. Bigelow received his B.S. in Engineering Physics (1981) and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1981) from Lehigh University and his M.S. and Ph.D. (1989) in Physics from Cornell University. He then joined the Technical Staff of A. T. & T. Bell Laboratories where he remained until 1991. Early in 1991 he moved to the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France where he worked in the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel . - Nicholas P. Bigelow
Prof. Bigelow's research interests are in the areas of Quantum Optics and Quantum Physics. His recent work has focussed on the creation and study of ultra-cold quantum gasses, the manipulation and control of atomic motion using light pressure forces, the laser cooling and trapping of atoms and molecules, Bose-Einstein Condensation and the basic quantum nature of the basic atom-photon interaction. - Anthony James Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS, (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England), is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. - Edward Condon
Edward Uhler Condon (March 2 1902 - March 26 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society (as well as, late in his life, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, … - Jeffrey H. Shapiro
Professor Jeffrey H. Shapiro is Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received the S.B., S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1970, respectively. As a graduate student he was a National Science Foundation Fellow, a Teaching Assistant, and a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow. - Carl M. Bender
Carl M. Bender is Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his A.B. in 1964 from Cornell University, where he graduated summa cum laude and with Distinction in All Subjects. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D in physics from Harvard University in 1965 and 1969, respectively. Bender specializes in quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, black holes, global warming and theoretical physics. - Federico Capasso
DR. FEDERICO CAPASSO Federico Capasso , Ph.D., Hon DEng was one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University. Federico received the doctor of Physics degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1973 and after doing research in fiber optics at Fondazione Bordoni in Rome, joined Bell Labs in 1976. - Douglas Johnson
Mr Douglas Johnson Douglas Johnson , ATC, EES, CLS, is a certified athletic trainer with over 12 years of clinical/industrial experience. He attended Wayne State University and The University of Detroit-Mercy where he earned a Summa Cum Laude Bachelors of Science degree in Sports Medicine in 1994. - Barbara Spieth
Barbara is certified in Pilates Equipment and Mat through Quantum Pilates, and Mat Pilates certified through Physical Mind Institute. She is also a certified RYT Yoga Instructor through Yoga Alliance/ Yoga Fit, Pre and Post Natal, Seniors, and also holds ACE Group Fitness and ACE Personal Trainer Certifications. She has also been an ACE Continuing Education Provider in Pilates. - Richard C. Tolman
Richard Chace Tolman (March 4 1881-September 5 1948) was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who was an authority on statistical mechanics and made important contributions to the early development of theoretical cosmology. He was a professor of physical chemistry and mathematical physics at Caltech. Born in West Newton, Massachusetts, elder brother of behavioral psychologist Edward Chace Tolman, … - Afshin Shafiee
Afshin Shafiee, as an Associate Professor in School of Chemistry at Sharif University of Technology in Iran, received his B.Sc. in Pure Chemistry from Shahid Beheshti (National) University (Tehran, Iran) in 1991; his M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) in 1994; and his Ph.D. in Quantum Mechanics, Bell Theorems from University of Teacher Training (Tarbiat e Mo'allem) (Tehran, … - Michael Heller
Michael Heller, (birth: October 14, 1936 - USA) is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, Poland, and an adjunct member of the Vatican Observatory staff. He also serves as a lecturer in the philosophy of science and logic at the Theological Institute in Tarnow. A Roman Catholic priest, Dr. Heller was ordained in 1959. - Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive. Since 2001, he has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University. The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990-2001. He has been awarded the P.A.M. (physics astronomy math) Award from the Special Libraries Association, named a Lingua Franca "Tech 20", … - Brad Dalton
I am a Physical Therapist living in Salt Lake City. I married Jessica and we have two dogs. One is a Brittney Spaniel mutt named Katie and the other is a Golden Retriever mutt named Putty. I went to college at the University of Utah and graduated in 2003. I served a mission in Cordoba, Argentina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I enjoy travelling with my wife to as many places as we can get to around the world. - James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was formulating a set of equations - eponymously named Maxwell's equations - that for the first time expressed the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in a unified fashion. He also developed the Maxwell distribution, a statistical means to describe aspects of the kinetic theory of gases. - Vladimir Fock
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (or Fok,) (December 22 1898-December 27 1974) was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1922 he graduated from Petrograd University, then continued postgraduate studies there. He became a professor there in 1932. In 1919-1923 and 1928-1941 he collaborated with the State Institute of Optics, in 1924-1936 with the Leningrad Institute of Physics and Technology, … - Miguel Alcubierre
Miguel Alcubierre is a Mexican theoretical physicist. Born in Mexico City, he took a degree in physics, and a Master of Science in theoretical physics at the School of Science of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). At the end of 1990 he moved to Wales to attend graduate school at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He received his Ph.D. in the area of Numerical relativity in 1994. - Nathan Rosen
Prof. Nathan Rosen Born into a Jewish family (March 22, 1909, Brooklyn, New York - December 18, 1995) was an Israeli physicist. Nathan Rosen attended MIT. In 1935 he became Albert Einstein's Assistant at The Institute for Advanced Studies of Princeton University and continued in that position until 1945. Einstein encouraged Rosen to continue his career in physics in Israel thereafter. - Ronald Mallett
Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D. is a professor of physics in the University of Connecticut. Mallett was born in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, on March 3, 1945. When he was 10 years old, his father died, at age 33, of a massive heart attack. Inspired by a Classics Illustrated comic book version of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, Mallett resolved to travel back in time to save his father, which became his life's dream. In 1973, he received a Ph.D. from Penn State University. - David Clary
Professor David Clary is a British theoretical chemist who has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his development of the quantum theory for chemical reactions. From 2002-2005 he was Head of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. - Voltaire
- B. Roy Frieden
B. Roy Frieden is a mathematical physicist living in Tucson, Arizona, in the United States. He is an Emeritus Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. His main work is the use of Fisher information for purposes of deriving and developing physical theories. These theories take the form of known differential equations or probability distribution functions. (Examples are the Schrödinger wave equation of quantum mechanics, … - John Henry Schwarz
John Henry Schwarz (born 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, Leonard Susskind, and Edward Witten, he is regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. Schwarz studied mathematics at Harvard College (A.B., 1962) and theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1966), where his graduate advisor was Geoffrey Chew. - Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. - John R. Kirtley
John R. Kirtley (1949-) is a research physicist. He received his BA in Physics from UCSB in 1971 and his PhD in Physics from the same school in 1976. His PdD topic was inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy, with Paul Hansma as his thesis advisor. He was then a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976-1978, working in the group of Don Langenberg on non-equilibrium superconductivity. - Mark B. Wise
Mark Brian Wise (born 9 November, 1953) is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist. He has conducted research in elementary particle physics and cosmology. He is best known for his role in the development of "heavy quark effective theory" (HQET), a mathematical formalism that has allowed physicists to make predictions about otherwise intractable problems in the theory of the strong nuclear interactions. - Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 demonstrated that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes entropy and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. This principle is relevant to reversible computing, quantum information and quantum computing. Landauer was born on February 4, 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. Of Jewish parentage, he immigrated to the United States in 1938, graduated in 1943 from Stuyvesant High School, … - Sankar Das Sarma
Sankar Das Sarma is a theoretical physicist specializing in condensed matter physics, materials physics, the quantum hall effect, statistical mechanics, nanoscience, spintronics and quantum computation. He is a Distinguished University Professor and director of the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. Das Sarma has co-authored more than 300 articles in the Physical Review Journal series of the American Physical Society, … - Laura Mersini
Dr. Laura Mersini is a theoretical physicist-cosmologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since January 2004. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Tirana in her native Albania, and she was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has worked on a variety of topics on the particle physics-cosmology interface. - Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn (born March 9,1923 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John A. Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials. In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of the density functional theory, …
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