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| Richard Feynman |
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Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium,...
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| Murray Gell-Mann |
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Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particle.
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| Albert Einstein |
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Albert Einstein (German: ; English: ) (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, . Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in...
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| Freeman Dyson | Person |
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, nuclear engineering, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and...
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| Robert Oppenheimer |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project:...
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| Marie Curie |
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Marie Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; also known as Maria Skłodowska-Curie; November 7, 1867 – July 4 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the...
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| Isaac Newton |
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Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (; 4 January 1643 31 March 1727 ) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian. His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, is said to be the...
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| Carl Sagan |
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9 1934 – December 20 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural science. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra...
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| Lise Meitner |
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Lise Meitner (November 7 or 17, the former being the date Lise observed 1878 – October 27, 1968) was an Austria born, later Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.
Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear...
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| Ludwig Boltzmann |
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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austria physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. He was one of the most important advocates for...
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| Paul Dirac |
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and...
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| Stephen Thorsett |
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Stephen Erik Thorsett (b. December 3, 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professor and astronomer. His research interests include radio pulsars and gamma ray bursts. He is best known for measurements of the masses of neutron star and for...
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| Tekin Dereli | Person |
Tekin Dereli (November 30, 1949, Ankara) is a Turkish theoretical physicist.
He studied at Ankara Science High School and the Middle East Technical University. His research interests are Yang-Mills gauge theories, supersymmetry, supergravity,...
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| Frank Wilczek |
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Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He is a member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board, and is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts...
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| Max Tegmark |
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Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he belongs to the scientific directorate of the ''Foundational Questions Institute''. Currently, he...
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| Steven Weinberg |
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Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
Steven...
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| Niels Henrik David Bohr |
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Niels Henrik David Bohr ( in Danish; October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atom structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr...
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| Theodor Kaluza |
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Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza (November 9, 1885 – January 19, 1954) was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza-Klein theory involving field equations in five-dimensional space.
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| David Bohm |
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David Joseph Bohm (b. December 20 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - d. October 27 1992, London) was an American-born quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to...
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| Stephen Hawking |
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Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known...
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| James Clerk Maxwell |
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James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was aggregating a set of equations in electricity, magnetism and inductance – Maxwell's equations. Maxwell...
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| Michael Faraday |
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Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Faraday studied the...
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| Enrico Fermi |
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Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and...
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| William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin |
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was an Irish mathematical physicist and engineer. At Glasgow University he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and...
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