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Biruni is one of the best-known early physicists . Abu sahl Al-Quhi – İran (born 940) Xiaoyi Bao – Canada; Mani Lal Bhaumik – United States (born 1931) Tom Baehr-Jones – United States (born 1980) John Norris Bahcall – United States (1934–2005) Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge – U.K. (1925–2003) Cornelis Bakker – Netherlands (1904 ...
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; he won the prize in 1915 at the age of 25.
Organisation or application of physics in an industrial or commercial context United Kingdom: Kelvin Prize: Institute of Physics: Promoting public awareness of the place of physics in the world, of its contributions to the quality of life and its advancement of an understanding of the physical world and the place of humanity within it United ...
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.
100: Canadian engineer [28] Per Vilhelm Brüel: 1915–2015: 100: Danish physicist and engineer [29] Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat: 1923–2025: 101: French mathematician and physicist [30] Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev: 1859–1962: 103: Ukrainian mathematician [31] Margaret Burbidge: 1919–2020: 100: British-American astrophysicist [32] Colin Gasking ...
1863 - Birth of Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906) 1864 - Birth of George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943) 1913 - Birth of Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008) 1928 - Birth of Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel laureate; 1945 - Death of Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
May 9, 1904 – City of Truro, a steam locomotive exceeds 100 mph (160 km/h). May 10, 1946 – V-2 rocket 's first successful launch at White Sands Proving Ground May 10, 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast , the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth .
Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness.He is a former physics professor at San Diego State University, and has helped to popularize science on the Discovery Channel.