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Galileo Galilei, the founder of Modern Science and Physics . Dennis Gabor – Hungary (1900–1979) Nobel laureate; Mary K. Gaillard – France, United States (born 1939) Galileo Galilei – Italy (1564–1642) Luigi Galvani – Italy (1737–1798) George Gamow – Russia, United States (1904–1968) Domenica Garzón – Ecuador (living)
The following is a partial list of notable theoretical physicists. Arranged by century of birth, then century of death, then year of birth, then year of death, then alphabetically by surname. For explanation of symbols, see Notes at end of this article.
Leonard Susskind (/ ˈ s ʌ s k ɪ n d /; born June 16, 1940) [2] [3] is an American theoretical physicist, Professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests are string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum ...
Michio Kaku (Japanese: カク ミチオ, 加來 道雄, / ˈ m iː tʃ i oʊ ˈ k ɑː k uː /; born January 24, 1947) is an American physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist.He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model.
Born in San Francisco on March 17, 1934, [1] Heilbron attended Lowell High School in San Francisco, California, [2] and was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society.He received his A.B. (1955) and M.A. (1958) degrees in physics and his Ph.D. (1964) in history from the University of California, Berkeley. [1]
Arthur Louis Day (American, 1869–1960) – mineral physics and volcanology; Everette Lee DeGolyer (American, 1886–1956) – exploration geophysics in the petroleum industry; Robert S. Dietz (American, 1914–1995) – proposed (and named) – theory of seafloor spreading; discovered several impact craters including Sudbury Basin
Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 [1] [2] – May 13, 1878) was an American experimental physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science , a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. [ 3 ]