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Choi Sookyung, particle physicist; Chung Kwang Hwa (born 1948), physicist and president of the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, and Korean Vacuum Society; Jun Mikyoung, statistician; Kim Eun-Ah (born 1975), condensed matter physicist; Kim Ju-Lee (born 1969), mathematician, educator, now in the ...
As of 2024, Connes was still alive and eligible to the prize. Irène Joliot-Curie [10] and Dorothy Hodgkin [11] were also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics, but received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 and 1964, respectively. Lise Meitner is the female physicist the most nominated, 16 times for Physics and 14 times for Chemistry. [20]
Melissa Eve Bronwen Franklin (born September 30, 1956) is a Canadian experimental particle physicist and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. [1] In 1992, Franklin became the first woman to receive tenure in the physics department at Harvard University and she served as chair of the department from 2010 to 2014.
For her effort, Wu and her collaborators were awarded the 1995 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize. [9] The smoking gun signature proving the existence of the gluon were the so-called ‘three jet events’ occurring in electron-positron annihilation into a quark-antiquark pair, where an additional gluon is radiated ...
Lisa Randall HonFInstP (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. [1] Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space.
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.
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
Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄; pinyin: Wú Jiànxióng; Wade–Giles: Wu 2 Chien 4-shiung 2; May 31, 1912 – February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics.