Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

male, deceased (1988) (FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, United States)
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of...
Douglas D. Osheroff

Douglas D. Osheroff

male, 64 years old (California, United States)
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 with David Lee and Robert C....
Lev Landau

Lev Landau

male, deceased (1968)
Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 - April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist of Jewish origin who made fundamental contributions to...
Fritz London

Fritz London

male, deceased (1954)
Fritz Wolfgang London was a German-born American physicist. London's early work with Heitler on chemical bonding is now treated in any textbook on...
Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Kapitsa

male, deceased (1984)
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was a Russian physicist who discovered superfluidity with contribution from John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937....
Rudolf Grimm

Rudolf Grimm

male, 48 years old
Rudolf Grimm (born 10 November 1961 in Mannheim, Germany) is a professor of experimental physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and...
Anthony James Leggett

Anthony James Leggett

male, 71 years old
Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS, (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England), is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center...
Robert Coleman Richardson

Robert Coleman Richardson

male, 72 years old
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.) is an American physicist. He attended Virginia Tech and received a B.S. in 1958...
David Mermin

David Mermin

male
In solid-state physics, N. David Mermin is a polymathic physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Mermin-Wagner theorem and his...
Nikolay Bogolyubov

Nikolay Bogolyubov

male, deceased (1992)
Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov, (21 August 1909, Nizhny Novgorod - 13 February 1992, Moscow) was a Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and theoretical...