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Kaku was born in 1947 in San Jose, California. [2] [3] [4] His parents were both second-generation Japanese-Americans. [5]According to Kaku, his grandfather came to the United States to participate in the cleanup operation after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his father and mother were both born in California. [6]
Biruni is one of the best-known early physicists . Abu sahl Al-Quhi – İran (born 940) Xiaoyi Bao – Canada; Mani Lal Bhaumik – United States (born 1931) Tom Baehr-Jones – United States (born 1980) John Norris Bahcall – United States (1934–2005) Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge – U.K. (1925–2003) Cornelis Bakker – Netherlands (1904 ...
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.
The third volume was left unfinished due to Sakurai's sudden death in 1982, but was later edited and completed with the help of his wife, Noriko Sakurai, and colleague San Fu Tuan. [5] Modern Quantum Mechanics is probably his most well known book and is still widely used for graduate studies today.
Robert Henry Dicke (/ ˈ d ɪ k i /; May 6, 1916 – March 4, 1997) was an American astronomer and physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. [1] He was the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University (1975–1984). [2] [3] [4]
Steven Weinberg (/ ˈ w aɪ n b ɜːr ɡ /; May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
Richard A. Muller (born January 6, 1944) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.He was also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
William Happer (born July 27, 1939 [1]) is an American physicist who has specialized in the study of atomic physics, optics and spectroscopy. [2] He is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett [3] Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Princeton University, [2] and a long-term member of the JASON advisory group, [1] where he pioneered the development of adaptive optics.