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Vania Jordanova – United States, physicist, space weather and geomagnetic storms [1] Brian David Josephson – U.K. (born 1940) Nobel laureate; James Prescott Joule – U.K. (1818–1889) Adolfas Jucys – Lithuania (1904–1974) Chang Kee Jung – South Korea, United States
Ancient history. Elements of what became physics were drawn primarily from the fields of astronomy, optics, and mechanics, which were methodologically united through the study of geometry. These mathematical disciplines began in antiquity with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and Ptolemy.
Statistics. The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 226 individuals as of 2024. [5] The first prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics ...
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.
Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein (/ ˈaɪnstaɪn / EYEN-styne, [5] German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ⓘ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists.
Work in atomic physics or surface physics. United States. Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy. American Physical Society. Contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy and dynamics. United States. Einstein Prize. American Physical Society. Accomplishments in the field of gravitational physics.
American physicist and acoustician [220] Walter Francis Willcox: 1861–1964: 103: American statistician [221] Evelyn M. Witkin: 1921–2023: 102: American geneticist [222] Xu Xurong: 1922–2022: 100: Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [223] Yang Chen-Ning: 1922– 102: Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of ...
A golden age of physics began with the simultaneous discovery of the principle of the conservation of energy in the mid-19th century. [7][8] A golden age of physics was the years 1925 to 1927. [9] The golden age of nonlinear physics was the period from 1950 to 1970, encompassing the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem and others. [10]