Physicists Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Lester Halbert Germer was an American physicist who, with his colleague Clinton Joseph Davisson, conducted an experiment......
Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-born physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for his seminal discoveries......
Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-born American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki......
Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian experimental particle physicist and the director-general (2016– ) at CERN (the European......
J. Willard Gibbs was a theoretical physicist and chemist who was one of the greatest scientists in the United States......
Vitaly Ginzburg was a Russian physicist and astrophysicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003 for his......
Giovanni Giorgi was an Italian physicist who proposed a widely used system for the definition of electrical, magnetic,......
Donald A. Glaser was an American physicist and recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention......
Sheldon Glashow is an American theoretical physicist who, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, received the Nobel......
Roy J. Glauber was an American physicist, who won one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2005 for contributions......
Robert Goddard was an American professor and inventor generally acknowledged to be the father of modern rocketry.......
Maurice Goldhaber was an American physicist whose contributions to nuclear physics included the discovery that......
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt was a German mineralogist who made important studies of crystallography. His first......
Eugen Goldstein was a German physicist known for his work on electrical phenomena in gases and on cathode rays;......
Boris Borisovich, Prince Golitsyn was a Russian physicist known for his work on methods of earthquake observations......
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-born U.S. physicist who, with George E. Uhlenbeck (q.v.), a fellow graduate......
Gordon Gould was an American physicist who played an important role in early laser research and coined the word......
Brian Greene is an American physicist who greatly popularized string theory through his books and television programs.......
David Gross is an American physicist who, with H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek, was awarded the Nobel Prize......
Sir William Robert Grove was a British physicist and a justice of Britain’s High Court (from 1880), who built the......
Peter Grünberg was a Czech-born German scientist who, with Albert Fert, received the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics......
Otto von Guericke was a German physicist, engineer, and natural philosopher who invented the first air pump and......
Charles Édouard Guillaume was a French physicist whose exhaustive studies of ferronickel alloys culminated in the......
George Hadley was an English physicist and meteorologist who first formulated an accurate theory describing the......
Duncan Haldane is a British-born American physicist who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work......
John L. Hall is an American physicist, who shared one-half of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics with Theodor W.......
Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet was a Scottish geologist and physicist who founded experimental geology by artificially......
Theodore Hall was an American-born physicist and spy who during World War II worked on the Manhattan Project to......
William Webster Hansen was an American physicist who contributed to the development of radar and is regarded as......
Christopher Hansteen was a Norwegian astronomer and physicist noted for his research in geomagnetism. At the beginning......
Serge Haroche is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for devising methods to study......
Douglas R. Hartree was an English physicist, mathematician, and computer pioneer. At Manchester University in the......
Lene Hau is a Danish physicist who pioneered the use of Bose-Einstein condensates in slowing and stopping light.......
Herbert A. Hauptman was an American mathematician and crystallographer who, along with Jerome Karle, received the......
Jean de Hautefeuille was a French physicist who built a primitive internal-combustion engine. Born of poor parents,......
Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist whose theory of exploding black holes drew upon both relativity......
Alan Hazeltine was an American electrical engineer and physicist who invented the neutrodyne circuit, which made......
René-Just Haüy was a French mineralogist and one of the founders of the science of crystallography. After studying......
Oliver Heaviside was a physicist who predicted the existence of the ionosphere, an electrically conductive layer......
Werner Heisenberg was a German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way to formulate quantum mechanics......
Hermann von Helmholtz was a German scientist and philosopher who made fundamental contributions to physiology,......
Jan Baptista van Helmont was a Flemish physician, philosopher, mystic, and chemist who recognized the existence......
Gustav Hertz was a German physicist who, with James Franck, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1925 for the......
Heinrich Hertz was a German physicist who showed that Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism......
Gerhard Herzberg was a Canadian physicist and winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in determining......
Victor Francis Hess was an Austrian-born physicist who was a joint recipient, with Carl D. Anderson of the United......
Antony Hewish was a British astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his discovery of pulsars......
Peter Higgs was a British physicist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the existence......
David Hilbert was a German mathematician who reduced geometry to a series of axioms and contributed substantially......
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf was a German physicist who first computed the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms......
Robert Hofstadter was an American scientist who was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1961 for......
Gerardus ’t Hooft is a Dutch physicist, who was a corecipient with Martinus J.G. Veltman of the 1999 Nobel Prize......
Robert Hooke was an English physicist who discovered the law of elasticity, known as Hooke’s law, and who did research......
John J. Hopfield is an American physicist who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with neural......
John Hopkinson was a British engineer and physicist who invented the three-wire system for electricity distribution......
Albert Wallace Hull was an American physicist who independently discovered the powder method of X-ray analysis......
Russell Alan Hulse is an American physicist who in 1993 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with his former teacher,......
William Jackson Humphreys was an American atmospheric physicist who applied basic physical laws to explain the......
Friedrich Hund was a German physicist known for his work on the electronic structure of atoms and molecules. He......
Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who founded the wave theory of light,......
Theodor W. Hänsch is a German physicist who shared one-half of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics with John L. Hall......
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is a Spanish physicist known for his work in the field of twistronics, the study of how the......
Sir James Jeans was an English physicist and mathematician who was the first to propose that matter is continuously......
J. Hans D. Jensen was a German physicist who shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert......
John Joly was an Irish geologist and physicist who, soon after 1898, estimated the age of the Earth at 100,000,000......
Pascual Jordan was a German theoretical physicist who was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum......
Brian D. Josephson is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect while a 22-year-old graduate......
James Prescott Joule was an English physicist who established that the various forms of energy—mechanical, electrical,......
Herman Kahn was an American physicist, strategist, and futurist best known for his controversial studies of nuclear......
Kajita Takaaki is a Japanese physicist who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the oscillations......
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913 for his work on low-temperature......
Charles Kao was a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2009 for his discovery of how light......
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was a Soviet physicist who invented new machines for the liquefaction of gases and in......
Jerome Karle was an American crystallographer who, along with Herbert A. Hauptman, was awarded the Nobel Prize......
Alfred Kastler was a French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966 for his discovery and development......
Heinrich Kayser was a German physicist who discovered the presence of helium in the Earth’s atmosphere. Kayser’s......
Willem Hendrik Keesom was a Dutch physicist who specialized in cryogenics and was the first to solidify helium.......
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin was a Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist who profoundly influenced the......
Henry Way Kendall was an American nuclear physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics with Jerome Isaac......
Wolfgang Ketterle is a German-born physicist who, with Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, won the Nobel Prize......
Jack Kilby was an American engineer and one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, a system of interconnected......
Gustav Kirchhoff was a German physicist who, with the chemist Robert Bunsen, firmly established the theory of spectrum......
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1985 for his discovery......
Aaron Klug was a Lithuanian-born British chemist who was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his investigations......
Kobayashi Makoto is a Japanese scientist who was a corecipient, with Yoichiro Nambu and Maskawa Toshihide, of the......
Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch was a German physicist who investigated the properties of electrolytes (substances......
Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American physicist who, with John A. Pople, received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.......
Koshiba Masatoshi was a Japanese physicist who, with Raymond Davis, Jr., won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002......
J. Michael Kosterlitz is a British-born American physicist who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for......
Hendrik Anthony Kramers was a Dutch physicist who, with Ralph de Laer Kronig, derived important equations relating......
Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian-born Austrian physicist who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments......
Herbert Kroemer was a German-born physicist who, with Zhores Alferov and Jack S. Kilby, was awarded the 2000 Nobel......
August Kundt was a German physicist who developed a method for determining the velocity of sound in gases and solids.......
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov was a Soviet nuclear physicist who guided the development of his country’s first atomic......
Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist who, with Willis E. Lamb, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics......
Auguste-Arthur de La Rive was a Swiss physicist who was one of the founders of the electrochemical theory of batteries.......
Meir Lahav is an Israeli chemist known for his work, conducted in collaboration with Israeli chemist Leslie Leiserowitz,......
Sir Horace Lamb was an English mathematician who contributed to the field of mathematical physics. In 1872 Lamb......
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was an American physicist and corecipient, with Polykarp Kusch, of the 1955 Nobel Prize......
Johann Heinrich Lambert was a Swiss German mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher who provided the......