Gerhard Herzberg

Gerhard Herzberg

male, deceased (1904) (Germany)
Cornell University faculty, physical chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, carleton university, Chancellor of Carleton University, FRSC…spectroscopy
Gerhard Herzberg , PC , CC , FRSC , FRS ( December 25 , 1904 a March 3 , 1999 ) was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist , and Nobel...
Richard R. Ernst

Richard R. Ernst

male, 76 years old
Swiss, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, spectroscopy, nobel, Université libre de Bruxelles, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Richard Robert Ernst (born August 14, 1933) is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate. Born in Winterthur, Switzerland, Ernst was awarded the...
John L. Hall

John L. Hall

male, 75 years old
JILA, American, Alumni of the University of Glasgow, physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nobel laureate in Physics…spectroscopy
John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch for his work in p...
Joseph von Fraunhofer

Joseph von Fraunhofer

male, deceased (1826)
physicist, Astronomer, German nobility, German, bunsen, diffraction grating…spectroscopy
Joseph von Fraunhofer (March 6, 1787 - June 7, 1826) was a German optician. When Fraunhofer became an orphan at the age of 11, he started working...

Theodor W. Hänsch

male, 68 years old
University of Munich alumni, Stanford University, Nobel Prize in Physics, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Carl E. Wieman…laser spectroscopy, spectroscopy
Theodor (Ted) Wolfgang Hänsch is a German physicist. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with John L. Hall, for "contributions t...
Nicolaas Bloembergen

Nicolaas Bloembergen

male, 89 years old
Harvard University alumni, Harvard University faculty, Nobel Prize, American, Leiden University alumni, University of Arizona faculty…spectroscopy
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920) is a Dutch physicist. He received his Ph.D. from University of Leiden in 1948 and then became...
Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Kirchhoff

male, deceased (1824)
East Prussia, caesium, Königsberg, rubidium, German natives of East Prussia, Rumford Medal…spectroscopy
Kirchhoff ( kirk hof ) , Gustav Robert , a distinguished German mathematical physicist, was born at Konigsberg, Prussia, in 1824. He began teaching...
Emil Wolf

Emil Wolf

male, 87 years old
Selected Works of Emil Wolf with Commentary, University of Rochester faculty, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics, physicist, Optics, Alumni of the University of Bristol…spectroscopy
Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence...
William Crookes

William Crookes

male, deceased (1919)
Crookes tube, vacuum tube, buried at Brompton Cemetery, Royal College of Chemistry, Parapsychologist, spiritism…spectroscopy
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was an English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Ch...
Friedrich Hund

Friedrich Hund

male, deceased (1997)
Harvard University, physicist, Centenarian, German, gottingen, jena…spectroscopy
Friedrich Hund : German physicist known for his work on atoms and molecules. Hund worked at the Universities of Rostock, Leipzig, Jena, Frankfurt...