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Robert Otto Pohl (December 17, 1929 – August 30, 2024) was a German-American physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics topics such as solid state physics, thermal conductivity, and thin films, [1] who was the Goldwin Smith Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cornell University where he has been on the faculty since the 1950s.
George Crabtree was born on November 28, 1944, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and moved with his family to Hillside, Illinois, at age 2.His father was a mechanical engineer for International Harvester, and his mother was a homemaker and community service volunteer.
Wilkinson was a Professor of Physics at Princeton University from 1965 until his retirement in 2002. He made fundamental contributions to many major cosmic microwave background experiments, including two NASA satellites: the Cosmic Background Explorer and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (), the latter of which was named in his honor after his death due to cancer on September 5, 2002.
David Louis Goodstein (April 5, 1939 – April 10, 2024) was an American physicist and educator. From 1988 to 2007 he served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as (since 1995) the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor.
Physics Today obituary, May 2008, written by Sheldon Glashow. "Quantum Mechanics In Your Face" Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, A lecture by Prof. Coleman at the New England sectional meeting of the American Physical Society April 9, 1994. Physics 253: Quantum Field Theory Archived 2010-08-01 at the Wayback Machine. Video of lectures ...
Leo Philip Kadanoff (January 14, 1937 – October 26, 2015) was an American physicist. [2] He was a professor of physics (emeritus from 2004) [3] at the University of Chicago and a former president of the American Physical Society (APS). [4]
Felix Villars (French:; 6 January 1921 – 27 April 2002) was a Swiss-born American emeritus professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization , an important principle in quantum field theory .
Strutt with his son Guy in 1938. Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh FRS [1] (28 August 1875 – 13 December 1947) was a British peer and physicist. He discovered "active nitrogen" and was the first to distinguish the glow of the night sky.