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Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS, (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England), is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ...
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March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ...
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Camberwell is a district of London in the London Borough of Southwark. ...
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Physics (from the Greek, (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter, energy, space, and time. ...
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He is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics. Helium II will creep along surfaces in order to find its own level - after a short while, the levels in the two containers will equalize. ...
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A dissipative system (or dissipative structure) is an open system which is operating far from thermodynamic equilibrium within an environment that exchanges energy, matter or entropy. ...
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He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK), the American Physical Society, and American Institute of Physics, and Life Fellow of the Institute of Physics. President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...
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He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK). He was knighted (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 "for services to physics." He holds dual US/UK citizenship. The Institute of Physics (IOP) is the United Kingdoms professional body for physicists. ...
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His current research focuses on cuprate superconductivity, conceptual issues in the foundations of quantum mechanics, and superfluidity in highly degenerate atomic gases A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor (with boiling liquid nitrogen underneath), demonstrating the Meissner effect. ...
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The International Herald Tribune in an article printed in the 29 December 2005 edition, "New tests of Einstein's 'spooky' reality" referred to his Autumn 2005 debate at a conference in Berkeley, California, with fellow Nobel laureate Norman Ramsey of Harvard. December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ...
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Both debated the worth of attempts to change quantum theory. Leggett thought attempts were justified, Ramsey opposed. Leggett believes quantum mechanics may be incomplete because of the quantum measurement problem. The measurement problem is the key set of questions that every interpretation of quantum mechanics must answer. ...
Upbringing and education
He was born in Camberwell, South London, on the 26 March 1938. His father's forebears were village cobblers in a small village in Hampshire, though his father broke with this tradition to become a greengrocer; his father would relate how he used to ride with him to buy vegetables at the Covent Garden market in London. His mother's parents were both of Irish stock; her father had emigrated to England and worked as a clerk in the naval dockyard in Chatham. His maternal grandmother, who survived into her eighties, was sent out to domestic service at the age of twelve, she eventually married his grandfather and raised a large family, then in her late sixties emigrated to Australia to join her daughter and son-in-law, and finally returned to the UK for her last years. Camberwell is a district of London in the London Borough of Southwark. ...
March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ...
Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
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His father and mother were each the first in their families to receive a university education; they met and became engaged while students at the Institute of Education at the University of London, but were unable to get married for some years because his father had to care for his own mother and siblings. His father worked as a secondary-school teacher of physics, chemistry and mathematics. His mother also taught secondary school mathematics for a time, but had to give this up when he was born. He was eventually followed by two sisters, Clare and Judith, and two brothers, Terence and Paul. His parents were both Catholics, so all the siblings were brought up in that faith. Although he ceased to be a practicing Catholic in his early twenties, he still wonders from time to time how far the experience, in childhood and adolescence, of maintaining and defending, sometimes in public and in the face of some ridicule, beliefs and attitudes not shared by the vast majority of his compatriots may have influenced his subsequent attitude to physics and indeed to life in general. The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ...
Physics (from the Greek, (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter, energy, space, and time. ...
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Soon after he was born, his parents bought a house in Upper Norwood, just outside the southern boundary of London proper. However, when he was eighteen months old, war broke out and he was 'evacuated' to Englefield Green, a small village in Surrey on the edge of the great park of Windsor Palace, where he stayed for the duration of the war. Upper Norwood is an elevated area in south London, England within the postcode SE19. ...
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After the end of the war, he returned to the Upper Norwood house and lived there until 1950; his father taught at a school in north-east London and his mother looked after the five children full time. He attended the local Catholic primary school, and later, following a successful performance in the "eleven plus" examination which he took rather earlier than most, transferred to the College of the Sacred Heart in Wimbledon. Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ...
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He competed for, and obtained, a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, in December 1954. In early October of 1955 he went up to Oxford to take up his scholarship, with the intention of reading (majoring in) the degree technically known as Literae Humaniores, and informally as Greats. College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Jack Hawkins Undergraduates 403 MCR President Chelsea Payne Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in...
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He then quickly completed a second undergraduate degree, this time in physics at Merton College. One person who was willing to overlook his unorthodox credentials was Dirk ter Haar, then a reader in theoretical physics and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; so he signed up for research under his supervision. As with all Haar's students in that period, the tentatively assigned thesis topic was "Some Problems in the Theory of Many-Body Systems," which left a considerable degree of latitude. Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...
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Dirk's supervisory style was somewhat unusual. He took a great interest in the personal welfare of his students and their families, and was meticulous in making sure they received adequate support; indeed, he encouraged Leggett to apply for a Prize Fellowship at Magdalen. In the end his thesis work consisted of studies of two somewhat disconnected problems in the general area of liquid helium, one on higher-order phonon interaction processes in superfluid 4He and the other on the properties of dilute solutions of 4He in normal liquid 3He (a system which unfortunately turned out to be much less experimentally accessible than the other side of the phase diagram, dilute solutions of 3He in 4He). General Name, Symbol, Number helium, He, 2 Chemical series noble gases Group, Period, Block 18, 1, s Appearance colorless Atomic mass 4. ...
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Helium II will creep along surfaces in order to find its own level - after a short while, the levels in the two containers will equalize. ...
Oxford University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree in June 2005. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
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Career As a postdoc Legett spent the period August 1964 - August 1965 at UIUC, and David Pines and his colleagues (John Bardeen, Gordon Baym, Leo Kadanoff and others) provided a fertile environment. He then spent a year in the group of Professor Takeo Matsubara at Kyoto University in Japan. After one more postdoctoral year which he spent in "roving" mode, spending time at Oxford, Harvard and Illinois, in the autumn of 1967 he took up a lectureship at the University of Sussex, where he was to spend the next fifteen years of his career. The University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove. ...
In the summer of 1972 he became engaged to Haruko Kinase, at that time an undergraduate student at Sussex, and they married in June 1972. In 1978, they had a daughter Asako. In the spring of 1982 he accepted an offer from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign of the MacArthur Chair with which the university had recently been endowed, and after the three of us had been across for a visit. As he had already committed himself to an eight-month stay at Cornell in early 1983, he finally arrived in Urbana in the early fall of that year, and has been there ever since. His wife Haruko eventually obtained a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois, and is currently doing research on the hospice system; and his daughter Asako has graduated, also from UIUC, with a joint major in geography and chemistry. His own research interests shifted away from superfluid 3He since around 1980; he worked inter alia on the low-temperature properties of glasses, high-temperature superconductivity, the BEC atomic gases and above all on the theory of experiments to test whether the formation of quantum mechanics will continue to describe the physical world as we push it up from the atomic level towards that of everyday life. In 2007 he accepted a position at the University of Waterloo. For the next five years, he will spend at least two months a year on campus at the Institute for Quantum Computing.
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Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ) (November 17, 1902 â January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and...
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Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (June 25, 1907 â February 11, 1973) was a German physicist who shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. ...
Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, American physicist and educator. ...
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 – January 8, 2002) was an Australian-Russian physicist. ...
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Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. ...
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 â February 15, 1988; surname pronounced ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. ...
Alfred Kastler (May 3, 1902 - January 7, 1984) is a French physicist, born in Guebwiller, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966. ...
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced bay-tuh; July 2, 1906 â March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. ...
Portrait of Luis Alvarez Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 â September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed physicist of Spanish descent, who worked at the University of California, Berkeley. ...
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. ...
Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995), winning the Nobel Prizing for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (May 30, 1908; Norrköping, Sweden - April 2, 1995; Djursholm, Sweden) is known as a Swedish plasma physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work developing...
Louis Néel (November 22, 1904 - November 14, 2000) is the Nobel Laureate in Physics of 1970. ...
Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (June 5, 1900, Budapest â February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor who is most notable for inventing holography. ...
John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 â January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. ...
Leon Neil Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity. ...
John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. ...
Leo Esaki (æ±å´ ç²æ¼å¥; correct transcription Esaki Reona; also known as Esaki Leona) (born March 12, 1925) is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. ...
Ivar Giaever (originally spelled Giæver) (born April 5, 1929 in Bergen, Norway) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David Josephson for work in solid-state physics. ...
Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect while a 22_year_old graduate student won him a share (with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever) of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics. ...
Sir Martin Ryle (September 27, 1918 – October 14, 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e. ...
Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars. ...
Aage Niels Bohr (born in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 19, 1922) is the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. ...
Benjamin Roy Mottelson (born July 9, American-Danish physicist. ...
Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 - May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. ...
Burton Richter (Born March 22, 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ...
Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中 pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade-Giles: Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹) (born January 27, 1936) is a Michigan-born Chinese American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for the discovery of the subatomic J particle with Burton Richter. ...
Philip Warren Anderson (born December 13, 1923) is an American physicist. ...
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (September 30, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a British physicist. ...
John Hasbrouck van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. ...
Semenov (on the right) and Kapitsa (on the left), portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian ÐÑÑÑ ÐÐµÐ¾Ð½Ð¸Ð´Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ ÐапиÑа) (July 9, 1894 â April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered superfluidity with contribution from John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937. ...
Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, American physicist. ...
Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American physicist. ...
Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. ...
Abdus Salam at Nobel Prize ceremony with the King of Sweden Dr. Abdus Salam (Urdu: پرÙÙÛØ³Ø± ÚØ§Ú©Ù¹Ø± عبد Ø§ÙØ³ÙاÙ
) (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab â 21 November 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak theory which...
Steven Weinberg at Harvard University Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ...
James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. ...
Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923) is an American nuclear physicist. ...
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born March 11, 1920) is an Dutch physicist. ...
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921–April 28, 1999) was an American physicist. ...
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (born April 20, 1918) is a Swedish physicist. ...
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American physicist. ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician. ...
There is another William Fowler who was a Scottish poet and uncle of William Drummond of Hawthornden William Alfred Willy Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. ...
Carlo Rubbia (born March 31, 1934) is an Italian physicist. ...
Simon van der Meer (born November 24, 1925) is a Dutch physicist. ...
Klaus von Klitzing, (born June 28, 1943 in Schroda, Posen) is a Polish-German physicist. ...
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (December 25, 1906âMay 25, 1988) was a German physicist. ...
Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German-born physicist who shared with Heinrich Rohrer half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ...
Heinrich Rohrer (born June 6, 1933) is a Swiss physicist who, with Gerd Binnig, received half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ...
Johannes Georg Bednorz (born May 16, 1950) is a German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Muller, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable. ...
Karl Alexander Müller (born April 20, 1927) is a Swiss physicist who, along with J. Georg Bednorz, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at higher temperatures than had previously been thought attainable. ...
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ...
Melvin Schwartz (born November 2, 1932) is an American physicist. ...
Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ...
Norman Foster Ramsey (born August 27, 1915) is an American physicist. ...
Hans Georg Dehmelt (born September 9, 1922 in Görlitz, Germany) is an American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ...
Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ...
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930) is a U.S. physicist. ...
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 â February 15, 1999) was an American physicist. ...
Richard E. Taylor Professor Richard E. Taylor, CC , FRS , FRSC , Ph. ...
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (born October 24, 1932) is a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ...
Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a French physicist. ...
Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ...
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Bertram Neville Brockhouse (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003) was a Nobel prize-winning Canadian physicist. ...
Clifford Glenwood Shull (September 23, 1915 - March 31, 2001) was a Nobel prize-winning American physicist. ...
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Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. ...
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Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is a American physicist. ...
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.) is an American physicist. ...
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the Ãcole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ...
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Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is an American theoretical physicist who, with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. ...
Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949) is a Bell Labs physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin. ...
Daniel Chee Tsui 崔琦 (pinyin: Cuī Qí)(born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. ...
Gerard t Hooft at Harvard University Gerardus (Gerard) t Hooft [ut-hooft] (The prefix ât is pronounced as âutâ and stands for âhetâ) (born July 5, 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ...
Martinus J.G. Veltman (Tini for short) (born June 27, 1931) is a 1999 Nobel prize laureate for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics, work done at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ...
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Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph. ...
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Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. ...
Wolfgang Ketterle (born October 21, 1957, in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German physicist and a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced a Bose-Einstein condensate. ...
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Masatoshi Koshiba (å°æ´ æä¿ Koshiba Masatoshi, born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture -) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. ...
Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931) is an Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist. ...
Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov (Алексей Алексеевич Абрикосов) (born June 25, 1928, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR.) is a Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field...
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург) (born October 4, 1916 in Moscow) is a Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the...
Anthony James Leggett (born March 26, 1938), is Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. ...
David Gross and his wife in Santa Barbara David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American physicist and string theorist. ...
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Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a Nobel prize winning American physicist. ...
Roy Jay Glauber (born 1 September 1925) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. ...
John L. Hall (born 1934) is a JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) fellow and Physics lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder Physics department. ...
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George Smoot celebrating his Nobel Prize on October 3, 2006 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ...
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