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Abrikosov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Particle physicist, explored superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/744/000165249/"><font size=-1>Robert Adler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented wireless remote control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/397/000252638/"><font size=-1>Howard Aiken</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Designer of early computers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/852/000099555/"><font size=-1>Hannes Alfvén</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Apr-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Renegade Swedish astrophysicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000161657/"><font size=-1>David Alter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1807</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Almost discovered spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/803/000099506/"><font size=-1>Luis W. Alvarez</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000097282/"><font size=-1>Guillaume Amontons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1663</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1705</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Thermometrist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/574/000097283/"><font size=-1>André-Marie Ampère</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1775</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1836</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Explored electromagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000099436/"><font size=-1>Carl David Anderson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the positron, mu-meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000099614/"><font size=-1>Philip W. Anderson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solid state physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/929/000100629/"><font size=-1>Anders Jonas Ångström</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/753/000099456/"><font size=-1>Edward Victor Appleton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ionosphere, shortwave radio</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000032212/"><font size=-1>François Arago</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Feb-1786</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigated earth magnetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000092599/"><font size=-1>Svante Arrhenius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Explored electrolytic conductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/289/000099989/"><font size=-1>Francis W. Aston</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the mass spectograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/183/000179643/"><font size=-1>Pierre Auger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Auger effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/650/000097359/"><font size=-1>Amedeo Avogadro</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1776</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1856</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Avogadro's number</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/034/000167530/"><font size=-1>Hertha Ayrton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electric arc</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000163802/"><font size=-1>Alexander Dallas Bache</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First President, National Academy of Sciences</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000117508/"><font size=-1>Kenneth Bainbridge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Director of the Trinity atomic test</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/785/000099488/"><font size=-1>John Bardeen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of the transistor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/549/000099252/"><font size=-1>Charles Glover Barkla</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-ray scattering</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000099553/"><font size=-1>Nikolay G. Basov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invention of the maser and laser</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000167626/"><font size=-1>David Bates</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atmospheric and interstellar physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/608/000072392/"><font size=-1>Henri Becquerel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discoverer of radioactivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/986/000099689/"><font size=-1>J. Georg Bednorz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>High-temperature superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000164370/"><font size=-1>John Stewart Bell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bell's theorem of quantum physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/274/000091998/"><font size=-1>Gregory Benford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physicist and author of <i>Timescape</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/284/000174759/"><font size=-1>Hans Berger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electroencephalogram</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/265/000179725/"><font size=-1>J. D. Bernal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-May-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-ray crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000159299/"><font size=-1>Daniel Bernoulli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1700</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1782</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/023/000025945/"><font size=-1>Hans Bethe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atomic scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000167693/"><font size=-1>Ludwig Biermann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar winds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/981/000099684/"><font size=-1>Gerd Binnig</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000100595/"><font size=-1>Jean-Baptiste Biot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1774</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Biot-Savart Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000099459/"><font size=-1>Patrick M. S. Blackett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cosmic radiation, continental drift</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000167706/"><font size=-1>Brebis Bleaney</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron paramagnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/527/000071314/"><font size=-1>Felix Bloch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear magnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000099654/"><font size=-1>Nicolaas Bloembergen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nonlinear optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000116511/"><font size=-1>David Bohm</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Particle physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000099598/"><font size=-1>Aage N. Bohr</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000024488/"><font size=-1>Niels Bohr</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of Quantum Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000167775/"><font size=-1>Alec Boksenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Image Photon Counting System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000167783/"><font size=-1>John G. Bolton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First Director of Parkes Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000179808/"><font size=-1>Ludwig Boltzmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1844</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Sep-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atoms and molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/047/000100744/"><font size=-1>Giovanni Alfonso Borelli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1608</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1679</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>De motu animalium</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000071294/"><font size=-1>Max Born</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer of quantum mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000213255/"><font size=-1>J. C. Bose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Botanist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Plant physiology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000208524/"><font size=-1>Satyendra Nath Bose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bose-Einstein condensates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/523/000071310/"><font size=-1>Walther Bothe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Coincidence method</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/482/000275654/"><font size=-1>Edward Bouchet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First African-American PhD</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000208265/"><font size=-1>Willard S. Boyle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Digital photography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/538/000099241/"><font size=-1>Lawrence Bragg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bragg's Law of diffraction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000099236/"><font size=-1>William Bragg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Analyzed crystal structures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000099491/"><font size=-1>Walter H. Brattain</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of the transistor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000099141/"><font size=-1>Ferdinand Braun</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rectifier effect in semiconductors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000117606/"><font size=-1>Gregory Breit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proton-proton dispersion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/750/000099453/"><font size=-1>Percy Williams Bridgman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>High-pressure physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/044/000099744/"><font size=-1>Bertram N. Brockhouse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Triple-axis crystal spectrometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000072097/"><font size=-1>Louis de Broglie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the wave nature of electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/331/000167827/"><font size=-1>Maurice de Broglie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Apr-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-ray spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000168164/"><font size=-1>Edward Bullard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Apr-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Continental drift, magnetic fields</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000168188/"><font size=-1>E. Margaret Burbidge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesis of the elements in stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/736/000168232/"><font size=-1>Geoffrey Burbidge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jan-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quasi-steady state cosmology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000168267/"><font size=-1>William W. Campbell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Stellar Motions</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/081/000170568/"><font size=-1>Claude R. Canizares</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/023/000206402/"><font size=-1>Fritjof Capra</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Tao of Physics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/138/000165640/"><font size=-1>Chester Carlson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented Xerography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/768/000082522/"><font size=-1>Sadi Carnot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1796</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Aug-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>2nd Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000179892/"><font size=-1>Élie Cartan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spinor groups</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000083778/"><font size=-1>Henry Cavendish</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Oct-1731</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Feb-1810</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered hydrogen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/728/000099431/"><font size=-1>James Chadwick</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the neutron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/819/000099522/"><font size=-1>Owen Chamberlain</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jul-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of the antiproton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000099663/"><font size=-1>Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolutionary stages of stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000179918/"><font size=-1>Sydney Chapman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000168322/"><font size=-1>Carl Charlier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Motion and the Distribution of the Stars</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/811/000099514/"><font size=-1>Georges Charpak</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Subatomic particle detectors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/844/000099547/"><font size=-1>Pavel A. Cherenkov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cherenkov radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000168320/"><font size=-1>Charles Chree</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetic phenomena</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/061/000099761/"><font size=-1>Steven Chu</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Secretary of Energy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/827/000168323/"><font size=-1>John Clarke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Superconducting quantum interference</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000100651/"><font size=-1>Rudolf Clausius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1822</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Aug-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Second Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000168331/"><font size=-1>William W. Coblentz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/870/000168366/"><font size=-1>William Cochran</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000099469/"><font size=-1>John Cockcroft</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Split the atom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/883/000262097/"><font size=-1>Samuel T. Cohen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neutron bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/064/000099764/"><font size=-1>Claude Cohen-Tannoudji</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Trapped atoms with laser light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000163830/"><font size=-1>Cadwallader Colden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1689</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1776</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Colonial scientist and statesman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000055803/"><font size=-1>Arthur H. Compton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Mar-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the Compton Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000168506/"><font size=-1>Karl T. Compton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bikini Island atomic tests</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/476/000164981/"><font size=-1>Edward Condon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Mar-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Quantum Mechanics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/950/000167449/"><font size=-1>William D. Coolidge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000099557/"><font size=-1>Leon N. Cooper</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>BCS Theory of Superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/498/000131105/"><font size=-1>Allan M. Cormack</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000027951/"><font size=-1>Eric A. Cornell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atomic physicist, Nobel laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/962/000100662/"><font size=-1>Alfred Cornu</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1841</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optics and spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/777/000091504/"><font size=-1>Charles-Augustin de Coulomb</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1736</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Aug-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Coulomb's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000248866/"><font size=-1>Clyde Cowan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discover of the neutrino</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/206/000165708/"><font size=-1>George A. Cowan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder, Santa Fe Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000099529/"><font size=-1>James W. Cronin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Time not necessarily reversible</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/965/000100665/"><font size=-1>Sir William Crookes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered element Thallium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000100489/"><font size=-1>Paul J. Crutzen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/323/000072107/"><font size=-1>Pierre Curie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-May-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early investigator of radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000087144/"><font size=-1>Jean le Rond d'Alembert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1717</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-1783</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early work in partial differential equations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/053/000168546/"><font size=-1>Harry K. Daghlian</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-May-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Casualty of the Manhattan Project</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000168548/"><font size=-1>Richard Dalitz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/278/000049131/"><font size=-1>John Dalton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1766</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1844</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early proponent of Atomic Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000165699/"><font size=-1>Paul Davies</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Mind of God</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/736/000099439/"><font size=-1>Clinton Davisson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Oct-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Diffraction of electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/190/000099890/"><font size=-1>Peter Debye</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied molecular structure, dipoles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/032/000099732/"><font size=-1>Hans G. Dehmelt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of the ion trap</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/430/000097139/"><font size=-1>Jean-André Deluc</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1727</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1817</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lettres... sur les montagnes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000168703/"><font size=-1>Henri Alexandre Deslandres</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spectroheliograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/216/000168709/"><font size=-1>Martin Deutsch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered positronium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/094/000099794/"><font size=-1>James Dewar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researcher of low temperatures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/222/000168715/"><font size=-1>Robert H. Dicke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Dicke radiometer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/314/000072098/"><font size=-1>Paul Dirac</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Principles of Quantum Mechanics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000023584/"><font size=-1>Ray Milton Dolby</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of Dolby stereo</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000049694/"><font size=-1>John Dollond</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1706</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1761</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented achromatic lenses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000061528/"><font size=-1>Christian Doppler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the Doppler Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/284/000106963/"><font size=-1>Sidney D. Drell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>In the Shadow of the Bomb</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/292/000168785/"><font size=-1>William Duddell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1872</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electronic music</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000022901/"><font size=-1>Freeman Dyson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/883/000172367/"><font size=-1>Roger Easton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Global Positioning System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000168859/"><font size=-1>Arthur Eddington</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Eddington luminosity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000100271/"><font size=-1>Manfred Eigen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied fast chemical reactions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/302/000022236/"><font size=-1>Albert Einstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Apr-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theory of relativity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/397/000168890/"><font size=-1>Artur Ekert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum cryptography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/880/000099583/"><font size=-1>Leo Esaki</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron tunneling</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000196328/"><font size=-1>Hugh Everett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Nov-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Many Worlds Theory of quantum physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/230/000165732/"><font size=-1>Thomas E. Everhart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of CalTech, 1987-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/207/000099907/"><font size=-1>Paul Peter Ewald</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-Ray crystallographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/950/000029863/"><font size=-1>Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1686</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1736</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Thermometrist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000024499/"><font size=-1>Michael Faraday</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered electrical induction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000024590/"><font size=-1>Philo Farnsworth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of electronic television</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/884/000053725/"><font size=-1>Enrico Fermi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First controlled nuclear chain reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/320/000112981/"><font size=-1>Galileo Ferraris</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1847</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the induction motor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000163478/"><font size=-1>Albert Fert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Giant magnetoresistance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/584/000026506/"><font size=-1>Richard Feynman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Surely he's joking</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000099541/"><font size=-1>Val Fitch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Time not necessarily reversible</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/446/000168939/"><font size=-1>Bill Foster</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Congressman from Illinois, 2008-11</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000086348/"><font size=-1>Léon Foucault</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Measured the speed of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000169106/"><font size=-1>Alfred Fowler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Celestial spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/618/000169111/"><font size=-1>Peter Fowler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cosmic radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/965/000099668/"><font size=-1>William A. Fowler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Element generation within stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000072110/"><font size=-1>James Franck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Franck-Hertz experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/845/000099548/"><font size=-1>Ilya M. Frank</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cherenkov radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000100625/"><font size=-1>Augustin-Jean Fresnel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-May-1788</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optician, invented Fresnel lens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/034/000099734/"><font size=-1>Jerome I. Friedman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Mar-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Verified existence of quarks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/119/000099819/"><font size=-1>Otto Robert Frisch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Described fission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/565/000088301/"><font size=-1>Klaus Fuchs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Spy</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/340/000099043/"><font size=-1>Dennis Gabor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of holography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/349/000099052/"><font size=-1>George Gamow</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proponent of Big Bang Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/451/000179911/"><font size=-1>Pierre Gassendi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1592</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1655</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Exercitationes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/885/000100585/"><font size=-1>Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1778</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researched gases, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/123/000099823/"><font size=-1>Hans Geiger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of the Geiger Counter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000254077/"><font size=-1>Andre Geim</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Super-thin carbon physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/169/000206548/"><font size=-1>Heinrich Geissler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1815</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geissler tube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000023241/"><font size=-1>Murray Gell-Mann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quarks and strangeness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/816/000099519/"><font size=-1>Pierre-Gilles de Gennes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular structure of polymers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000172091/"><font size=-1>Ivan Getting</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Global Positioning System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000027947/"><font size=-1>Riccardo Giacconi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered cosmic X-ray sources</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/884/000099587/"><font size=-1>Ivar Giaever</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tunneling through superconductors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/744/000161261/"><font size=-1>J. Willard Gibbs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1839</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/551/000087290/"><font size=-1>William Gilbert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1544</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1603</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>De Magnete</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/022/000027938/"><font size=-1>Vitaly L. Ginzburg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Oct-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Type-II superconductors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/796/000099499/"><font size=-1>Donald A. Glaser</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the bubble chamber</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/942/000099645/"><font size=-1>Sheldon Glashow</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/738/000138324/"><font size=-1>Roy J. Glauber</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/847/000099550/"><font size=-1>Maria Goeppert-Mayer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Shell nuclear model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000206658/"><font size=-1>Maurice Goldhaber</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Apr-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neutrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000169380/"><font size=-1>Eugen Goldstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Sep-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cathode rays</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/200/000099900/"><font size=-1>Samuel Goudsmit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Conceived idea of Quantum Spin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000104346/"><font size=-1>Gordon Gould</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the laser, arguably</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000169493/"><font size=-1>Ernest Howard Griffiths</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jun-1851</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Thermal Measurement of Energy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000140295/"><font size=-1>David J. Gross</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Deep structure of matter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000163479/"><font size=-1>Peter Grünberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Giant magnetoresistance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/557/000099260/"><font size=-1>Charles Édouard Guillaume</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented alloys Invar and Elinvar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000166520/"><font size=-1>Alan Guth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inflationary theory of cosmology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/039/000130646/"><font size=-1>John Hagelin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Activist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Natural Law Party</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000099830/"><font size=-1>Edwin Hall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the Hall Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000138357/"><font size=-1>John L. Hall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/795/000138381/"><font size=-1>Theodor W. Hänsch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/076/000169566/"><font size=-1>James E. Hansen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greenhouse effect and global warming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/071/000101765/"><font size=-1>William Snow Harris</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented a lightning rod for ships</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000169567/"><font size=-1>George Russell Harrison</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Echelle spectrograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000169625/"><font size=-1>Martin Harwit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/563/000022497/"><font size=-1>Stephen Hawking</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Wheelchair-bound physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000169648/"><font size=-1>Chushiro Hayashi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jul-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Big Bang astrophysicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000169682/"><font size=-1>Otto Heckmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigated cosmic expansion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000100539/"><font size=-1>Alan J. Heeger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Metallic polymers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000071275/"><font size=-1>Werner Heisenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/671/000096383/"><font size=-1>Joseph Henry</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1797</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered electromagnetic induction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000169683/"><font size=-1>Louis Henyey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Henyey method</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000169687/"><font size=-1>George Herbig</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Herbig-Haro objects</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000072108/"><font size=-1>Gustav Hertz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Franck-Hertz experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/419/000072203/"><font size=-1>Heinrich Hertz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/594/000100294/"><font size=-1>Gerhard Herzberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/731/000099434/"><font size=-1>Victor Francis Hess</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proved cosmic origin of radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000169790/"><font size=-1>Raymond Hide</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Earth's rotation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/305/000169795/"><font size=-1>Peter Higgs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Higgs boson and Higgs field</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/879/000178345/"><font size=-1>William A. Higinbotham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Nov-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physicist, Tennis for Two</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000087474/"><font size=-1>David Hilbert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hilbert Space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/125/000206504/"><font size=-1>James Hillier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron microscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/397/000169887/"><font size=-1>Johann Hittorf</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluorescence in vacuum tubes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/318/000072102/"><font size=-1>Robert Hofstadter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/404/000169894/"><font size=-1>Nick Holonyak</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Light-emitting diodes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/048/000027964/"><font size=-1>Gerardus 't Hooft</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/758/000113419/"><font size=-1>Fred Hoyle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Opposed the Big Bang but named it</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/409/000227725/"><font size=-1>Evelyn Hu</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nanoscale device fabrication</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/399/000103090/"><font size=-1>David Hughes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1831</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the microphone</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/451/000169941/"><font size=-1>Vernon W. Hughes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Mar-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Muons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/126/000099826/"><font size=-1>Albert Wallace Hull</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the magnetron tube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/992/000099695/"><font size=-1>Russell A. Hulse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discovered first binary pulsar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/155/000099855/"><font size=-1>Friedrich Hund</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum tunneling</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/332/000087071/"><font size=-1>Christiaan Huygens</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1629</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1695</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Wave theory of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/453/000169943/"><font size=-1>George Isaak</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Resonant scattering spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/456/000169946/"><font size=-1>Herbert E. Ives</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Facsimile machine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000061485/"><font size=-1>Shirley A. Jackson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>NRC Chairman, 1995-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/093/000204478/"><font size=-1>James H. Jeans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Continuous creation theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/848/000099551/"><font size=-1>J. Hans D. Jensen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Shell nuclear model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000030234/"><font size=-1>Deborah S. Jin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1968</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Created a fermionic condensate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/412/000100112/"><font size=-1>Frédéric Joliot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Aug-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Artificial radioactivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/410/000100110/"><font size=-1>Irène Joliot-Curie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Artificial radioactivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/144/000099844/"><font size=-1>Pascual Jordan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jul-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Quantum Mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000099590/"><font size=-1>Brian D. Josephson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the Josephson Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/275/000049128/"><font size=-1>James Prescott Joule</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1818</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English physicist, Joule's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000210062/"><font size=-1>Michio Kaku</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>String Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/521/000099224/"><font size=-1>Heike Kamerlingh Onnes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/932/000099635/"><font size=-1>Pyotr Kapitsa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered superfluidity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/798/000099501/"><font size=-1>Alfred Kastler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optical pumping</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000050457/"><font size=-1>Lord Kelvin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000170322/"><font size=-1>Nicholas Kemmer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear weapons and reactors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000099737/"><font size=-1>Henry W. Kendall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Verified existence of quarks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/834/000170324/"><font size=-1>Arthur E. Kennelly</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kennelly-Heaviside layer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000027952/"><font size=-1>Wolfgang Ketterle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bose-Einstein condensates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/693/000214051/"><font size=-1>Jay Keyworth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Science advisor to Reagan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000030748/"><font size=-1>Abdul Qadeer Khan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of Pakistani nuclear bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000170412/"><font size=-1>Tom Kibble</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Zurek-Kibble theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/530/000097239/"><font size=-1>Gustav Robert Kirchhoff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theory of spectrum analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000099511/"><font size=-1>Klaus von Klitzing</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantization of resistance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/828/000177297/"><font size=-1>Makoto Kobayashi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000027946/"><font size=-1>Masatoshi Koshiba</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Detected cosmic neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/032/000170519/"><font size=-1>Hendrik Kramers</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kramers dispersion theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/058/000027974/"><font size=-1>Herbert Kroemer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer in laser technology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/034/000170521/"><font size=-1>Nicholas Kurti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Nov-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular gastronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/782/000099485/"><font size=-1>Polykarp Kusch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jan-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Magnetic moment of the electron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/936/000035831/"><font size=-1>Willis Lamb</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jul-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-May-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Detailed the hydrogen spectrum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/654/000096366/"><font size=-1>Johann Heinrich Lambert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pyrometrie</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000099496/"><font size=-1>Lev Landau</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Superfluidity of helium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000099785/"><font size=-1>Paul Langevin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied piezoelectricity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000079539/"><font size=-1>Irving Langmuir</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jan-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the high-vacuum tube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000099231/"><font size=-1>Max von Laue</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-ray crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/071/000099771/"><font size=-1>Robert B. Laughlin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fractional quantum Hall effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/974/000055809/"><font size=-1>Ernest Lawrence</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the cyclotron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/019/000099719/"><font size=-1>Leon M. Lederman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researcher of neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/054/000099754/"><font size=-1>David M. Lee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Superfluidity of helium-3</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000099493/"><font size=-1>Tsung-Dao Lee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Nov-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Violations of parity law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/024/000027940/"><font size=-1>Anthony J. Leggett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Particle physicist, explored superfluidity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/060/000170547/"><font size=-1>Robert B. Leighton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Leighton dishes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/441/000099144/"><font size=-1>Philipp Lenard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigations of cathode rays</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000170680/"><font size=-1>Frederick Lindemann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jul-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Churchill's scientific and war advisor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000099147/"><font size=-1>Gabriel Lippmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Photographic color plate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/223/000170710/"><font size=-1>Alfred Lee Loomis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Millionaire scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000091483/"><font size=-1>Hendrik Lorentz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/224/000170711/"><font size=-1>Frank J. Low</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared astronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/233/000170720/"><font size=-1>Donald Lynden-Bell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astrophysicist at Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000170721/"><font size=-1>Bernard Lyot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Apr-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sandstorms on Mars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/286/000087025/"><font size=-1>Ernst Mach</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optical and sensory perceptualist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/523/000241797/"><font size=-1>Theodore Maiman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-May-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Built the first working laser</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000095748/"><font size=-1>Étienne Louis Malus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1775</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1812</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Polarization of light by reflection</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/364/000254599/"><font size=-1>Michael E. Mann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Climate change scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/004/000162515/"><font size=-1>Hans Mark</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/829/000177298/"><font size=-1>Toshihide Maskawa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/412/000170899/"><font size=-1>Harrie Massey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>British National Committee for Space Research</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000060780/"><font size=-1>Walter E. Massey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Morehouse College president, physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/915/000137504/"><font size=-1>John C. Mather</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Big Bang</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/447/000170934/"><font size=-1>Drummond Matthews</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Plate tectonics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000252814/"><font size=-1>John William Mauchly</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/430/000072214/"><font size=-1>James Clerk Maxwell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1831</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Maxwell's equations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000095725/"><font size=-1>Julius Robert Mayer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Nov-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000100148/"><font size=-1>Edwin M. McMillan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered neptunium and plutonium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000099063/"><font size=-1>Lise Meitner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered nuclear fission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000100648/"><font size=-1>Macedonio Melloni</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1798</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Diathermancy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/694/000171181/"><font size=-1>Kurt Mendelssohn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cryogenics and pyramids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/695/000171182/"><font size=-1>Paul W. Merrill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><I>S</i>-process of nucleosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/501/000099204/"><font size=-1>Albert A. Michelson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Measured the speed of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000091498/"><font size=-1>Robert A. Millikan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Determined the charge of an electron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/755/000171242/"><font size=-1>Robert L. Mills</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Subatomic particles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000171327/"><font size=-1>E. Arthur Milne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kinematic relativity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000171349/"><font size=-1>Hermann Minkowski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Minkowski space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000171359/"><font size=-1>Rudolph Minkowski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Galaxies in collision</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000171398/"><font size=-1>Marcel Minnaert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar spectrophotometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000171400/"><font size=-1>Keith Moffatt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000171412/"><font size=-1>Philip Moon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gamma ray fluorescence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000173291/"><font size=-1>Charlotte E. Moore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Technetium in the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000099804/"><font size=-1>Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Confirmed importance of atomic number</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000099527/"><font size=-1>Rudolf Mössbauer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jan-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered Mössbauer effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000099616/"><font size=-1>Nevill F. Mott</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Properties of semiconductors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000099601/"><font size=-1>Ben R. Mottelson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/734/000172218/"><font size=-1>Alexander Muirhead</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Submarine cable telegraphy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/989/000099692/"><font size=-1>K. Alex Müller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>High-temperature superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000099911/"><font size=-1>Robert S. Mulliken</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular orbital theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/827/000177296/"><font size=-1>Yoichiro Nambu</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spontaneous broken symmetry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000127929/"><font size=-1>Homer A. Neal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Director of the ATLAS Project</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/853/000099556/"><font size=-1>Louis Néel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Magnetic properties of solids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/061/000171545/"><font size=-1>Gerry Neugebauer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared astronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000024792/"><font size=-1>Isaac Newton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1643</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1727</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of the clockwork universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000167466/"><font size=-1>Ernest Fox Nichols</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/078/000171562/"><font size=-1>Seth Barnes Nicholson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Four satellites of Jupiter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000254078/"><font size=-1>Konstantin Novoselov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Aug-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Super-thin carbon physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/341/000104029/"><font size=-1>Hans Christian Oersted</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Aug-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1851</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered electromagnetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/649/000087388/"><font size=-1>Georg Simon Ohm</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1789</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ohm's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000171573/"><font size=-1>Mark Oliphant</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Deuterium reactions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000070165/"><font size=-1>Frank Oppenheimer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Aug-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of the Exploratorium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000047667/"><font size=-1>Robert Oppenheimer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/059/000099759/"><font size=-1>Douglas D. Osheroff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Superfluidity of helium-3</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000171597/"><font size=-1>Donald E. Osterbrock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000171775/"><font size=-1>Bohdan Paczynski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gravitational microlensing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000170049/"><font size=-1>John M. Palms</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President, University of South Carolina, 1991-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/382/000162893/"><font size=-1>Pief Panofsky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stanford Linear Accelerator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/474/000171958/"><font size=-1>Eugene Parker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar winds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000099730/"><font size=-1>Wolfgang Paul</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of the ion trap</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000071284/"><font size=-1>Wolfgang Pauli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pauli Exclusion Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/532/000172016/"><font size=-1>Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-May-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hydrogen in the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000172090/"><font size=-1>P. James E. Peebles</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Galaxy formation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/198/000099898/"><font size=-1>Rudolf Peierls</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Frisch-Peierls Memorandum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/685/000097394/"><font size=-1>Jean-Charles-Athanase Peltier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1785</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Peltier Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/277/000024205/"><font size=-1>Roger Penrose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theory of cosmic censorship</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/049/000099749/"><font size=-1>Martin L. Perl</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the tau lepton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000165713/"><font size=-1>Saul Perlmutter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1959</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Accelerating expansion of the universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/720/000099423/"><font size=-1>Jean Perrin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Verified atomic nature of matter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000172147/"><font size=-1>John Pethica</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1953</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atomic force microscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/067/000099767/"><font size=-1>William D. Phillips</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Trapped atoms with laser light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/281/000206660/"><font size=-1>Auguste Piccard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First man in the stratosphere</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/229/000058055/"><font size=-1>Max Planck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Oct-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Originator of quantum theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/133/000176602/"><font size=-1>E. Gail de Planque</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000172327/"><font size=-1>John S. Plaskett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Plaskett's star</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/365/000275537/"><font size=-1>Gilbert Plass</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Climate change scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000172334/"><font size=-1>Julius Plücker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Analytical geometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000100645/"><font size=-1>Johann Christian Poggendorff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1796</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Annalen der Physik und Chemie</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/716/000140296/"><font size=-1>H. David Politzer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Deep structure of matter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/449/000044317/"><font size=-1>Stanley Pons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cold fusion crank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/762/000099465/"><font size=-1>Cecil Powell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the pi-meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000113678/"><font size=-1>Ludwig Prandtl</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of Aerodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000099554/"><font size=-1>Aleksandr M. Prokhorov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invention of the maser and laser</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/772/000099475/"><font size=-1>E. M. Purcell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear magnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/743/000099446/"><font size=-1>Isidor Isaac Rabi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Magnetic beam resonances</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/901/000099604/"><font size=-1>James Rainwater</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/724/000099427/"><font size=-1>Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the Raman Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/028/000099728/"><font size=-1>Norman F. Ramsey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Energy levels of atoms</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000099200/"><font size=-1>Lord Rayleigh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Why the sky is blue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000099789/"><font size=-1>Henri-Victor Regnault</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1810</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Properties of gases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000099752/"><font size=-1>Frederick Reines</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discover of the neutrino</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/722/000099425/"><font size=-1>Owen Willans Richardson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron emissions of metals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/056/000099756/"><font size=-1>Robert C. Richardson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Superfluidity of helium-3</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/905/000099608/"><font size=-1>Burton Richter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000276109/"><font size=-1>Adam G. Riess</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1969</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Accelerating expansion of the universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/171/000172652/"><font size=-1>Augusto Righi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jun-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electromagnetic waves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/953/000100653/"><font size=-1>Auguste-Arthur de La Rive</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Traité d'électricité théorique et appliquée</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/978/000099681/"><font size=-1>Heinrich Rohrer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000071337/"><font size=-1>Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered X-Rays</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000172789/"><font size=-1>Bruno Rossi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rossi curve and magnetopause</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/977/000090707/"><font size=-1>Joseph Rotblat</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/092/000099792/"><font size=-1>Henry Augustus Rowland</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied optics, magnetism, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000099671/"><font size=-1>Carlo Rubbia</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discovered W and Z particles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/975/000099678/"><font size=-1>Ernst Ruska</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the electron microscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/218/000068014/"><font size=-1>Ernest Rutherford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of nuclear physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000113020/"><font size=-1>Johannes Rydberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rydberg constant</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/823/000079586/"><font size=-1>Andrei Sakharov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000099651/"><font size=-1>Abdus Salam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/344/000172825/"><font size=-1>Edwin E. Salpeter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000172856/"><font size=-1>Allan R. Sandage</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000172886/"><font size=-1>Wallace Sargent</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astrophysicist at CalTech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000099657/"><font size=-1>Arthur L. Schawlow</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-May-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Laser spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000276154/"><font size=-1>Brian P. Schmidt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Feb-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Accelerating universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000172919/"><font size=-1>Walter Schottky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solid-state physics and electronics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/856/000099559/"><font size=-1>Robert Schrieffer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>BCS Theory of Superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000072092/"><font size=-1>Erwin Schrödinger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Schrödinger's wave equation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/022/000099722/"><font size=-1>Melvin Schwartz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researcher of neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000168209/"><font size=-1>Karl Schwarzschild</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Black holes, Schwarzschild radius</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000168229/"><font size=-1>Martin Schwarzschild</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Structure and Evolution of the Stars</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/829/000099532/"><font size=-1>Julian Schwinger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum electrodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/745/000055580/"><font size=-1>Glenn Seaborg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Feb-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of Plutonium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000173058/"><font size=-1>Michael Seaton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Opacity Project</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/821/000099524/"><font size=-1>Emilio Segrè</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of the antiproton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/539/000163050/"><font size=-1>Nathan Seiberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>String theorist at Princeton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000100242/"><font size=-1>Nikolay Semyonov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/246/000213604/"><font size=-1>Maurice M. Shapiro</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Composition and origin of cosmic rays</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000233657/"><font size=-1>Tsutomu Shimomura</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Helped catch Kevin Mitnick</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/655/000173136/"><font size=-1>Iosif S. Shklovskii</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000026028/"><font size=-1>William Shockley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of the transistor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/677/000173158/"><font size=-1>David Shoenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physicist at Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/047/000099747/"><font size=-1>Clifford G. Shull</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Sep-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neutron scattering</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/369/000118015/"><font size=-1>William Shurcliff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jun-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Manhattan Project physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000099660/"><font size=-1>Kai M. Siegbahn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000099262/"><font size=-1>Manne Siegbahn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-Ray spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/469/000141046/"><font size=-1>Louis Slotin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Died tickling the dragon's tail</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000100502/"><font size=-1>Richard E. Smalley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discovered fullerines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000165696/"><font size=-1>Lee Smolin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Trouble with Physics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/921/000137510/"><font size=-1>George F. Smoot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Big bang</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000099812/"><font size=-1>Arnold Sommerfeld</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fine-structure constant</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/866/000173347/"><font size=-1>Lyman Spitzer, Jr.</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of space telescopes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/553/000099256/"><font size=-1>Johannes Stark</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the Stark Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000132286/"><font size=-1>Chauncey Starr</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electric Power Research Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000099725/"><font size=-1>Jack Steinberger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-May-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researcher of neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/740/000099443/"><font size=-1>Otto Stern</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Aug-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular beam experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000096607/"><font size=-1>Simon Stevin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1548</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1620</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of hydrostatics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000097823/"><font size=-1>Balfour Stewart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1828</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied magnetism, radiant heat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000097837/"><font size=-1>George Gabriel Stokes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamicist, optic waves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/075/000099775/"><font size=-1>Horst L. Störmer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fractional quantum Hall effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000173620/"><font size=-1>Bengt Strömgren</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jan-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hydrogen stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/146/000173624/"><font size=-1>Rashid Sunyaev</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/336/000098042/"><font size=-1>Sir Joseph Wilson Swan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1828</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Light bulb, photographic printing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/472/000104160/"><font size=-1>Leo Szilard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear chain reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/394/000098100/"><font size=-1>Peter Guthrie Tait</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1831</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Treatise on Quaternions</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/846/000099549/"><font size=-1>Igor Y. Tamm</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cherenkov radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000171871/"><font size=-1>James V. Taranik</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Desert Research Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/995/000099698/"><font size=-1>Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discovered first binary pulsar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000099741/"><font size=-1>Richard E. Taylor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Verified existence of quarks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/681/000026603/"><font size=-1>Edward Teller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of the Hydrogen Bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/482/000099185/"><font size=-1>George Paget Thomson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Diffraction of electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000099182/"><font size=-1>J. J. Thomson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Dec-1856</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the electron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/908/000099611/"><font size=-1>Samuel C. C. Ting</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jan-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000099535/"><font size=-1>Sin-Itiro Tomonaga</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum electrodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/849/000099552/"><font size=-1>Charles H. Townes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invention of the maser and laser</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000173894/"><font size=-1>John Townsend</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron's charge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/078/000099778/"><font size=-1>Daniel C. Tsui</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fractional quantum Hall effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/708/000174186/"><font size=-1>Herbert Hall Turner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stellar positions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000174458/"><font size=-1>Merle Tuve</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proximity fuse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/318/000118961/"><font size=-1>Neil deGrasse Tyson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Oct-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astrophysicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/191/000208564/"><font size=-1>Petr Ufimtsev</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physical Theory of Diffraction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/204/000099904/"><font size=-1>George Uhlenbeck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Conceived idea of Quantum Spin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/971/000099674/"><font size=-1>Simon van der Meer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Nov-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discovered W and Z particles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000099619/"><font size=-1>John H. van Vleck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum theory of paramagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000027968/"><font size=-1>Martinus J.G. Veltman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/758/000163269/"><font size=-1>Gabriele Veneziano</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of string theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/741/000091468/"><font size=-1>Alessandro Volta</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1745</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented electric battery</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000072229/"><font size=-1>Hermann von Helmholtz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1821</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Law of Conservation of Energy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/509/000099212/"><font size=-1>Johannes Diderik van der Waals</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1837</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigated states of matter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/769/000099472/"><font size=-1>Ernest T. S. Walton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Split the atom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/058/000206437/"><font size=-1>Robert Watson-Watt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/097/000099797/"><font size=-1>Wilhelm Weber</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1804</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Student of electromagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/524/000354459/"><font size=-1>Alvin M. Weinberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000099648/"><font size=-1>Steven Weinberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000099893/"><font size=-1>Victor Weisskopf</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Head of CERN, 1961-65</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/932/000100632/"><font size=-1>Charles Wheatstone</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1802</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the telegraph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/115/000099815/"><font size=-1>John Archibald Wheeler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000027953/"><font size=-1>Carl E. Wieman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bose-Einstein Condensates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/515/000099218/"><font size=-1>Wilhelm Wien</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Blackbody radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000099538/"><font size=-1>Eugene Wigner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Law of conservation of parity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/720/000140300/"><font size=-1>Frank Wilczek</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-May-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Deep structure of matter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/726/000099429/"><font size=-1>C. T. R. Wilson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cloud chamber</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/805/000099508/"><font size=-1>Kenneth G. Wilson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jun-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Second-order phase transitions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/938/000099641/"><font size=-1>Robert Woodrow Wilson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Detected primordial radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/708/000163219/"><font size=-1>Edward Witten</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>String theorist at Princeton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/195/000165697/"><font size=-1>Peter Woit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1957</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>String Theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/102/000099802/"><font size=-1>Robert W. 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