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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]
Frank Anthony Wilczek (/ ˈ v ɪ l tʃ ɛ k / [2] or / ˈ w ɪ l tʃ ɛ k /; [3] born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate.He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Director of T. D. Lee Institute and Chief Scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...
Brian Randolph Greene [1] (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist known for his research on string theory.He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008.
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.
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.
These people often do not have scientific training but rather are professional journalists, a notable example being Jules Bergman of ABC-TV in the United States. Actor Alan Alda has taken up the cause of aiding scientists in communicating with the general public. His efforts are not limited to scientific celebrities and include scientists that ...
Peter Medawar, biologist, called by Richard Dawkins "the wittiest of all scientific writers" [1] and by New Scientist "perhaps the best science writer of his generation". [2] Fulvio Melia, physicist, astrophysicist, and author; Ben Miller, English comedian and hosted shows such as It's Not Rocket Science (TV series)
Bill Unruh: physicist engaged in the study of semiclassical gravity and responsible for the discovery of the so-called Unruh effect. Cumrun Vafa: physicist and developer of F-theory, known for Vafa-Witten theorem and Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture. Robert Wald: physicist in the field of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.