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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) Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge – U.K. (1925–2003) Cornelis Bakker – Netherlands (1904–1960) Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran – India ...
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.
Luigi Galvani — physicist; Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) — philosopher; William Gilbert (1544–1603) — physicist; Carl Goresky — physician and scientist; W. G. Grace — cricketer; John Franklin Gray (1804–1881) — American educator, first practitioner of homeopathy in the US; Nehemiah Grew — botanist; Samuel Hahnemann — founder ...
List of physicians and scientists of Upstate New York; List of ornithologists; List of paleontologists; List of pathologists; List of pharmacists; List of photochemists; List of physicists; List of plasma physicists; List of presidents of the Geological Society of London; List of presidents of the Geologists' Association; List of psephologists ...
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.
Yang Chen-Ning or Chen-Ning Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨振宁; traditional Chinese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng; born 1 October 1922), [1] also known as C. N. Yang or by the English name Frank Yang, [2] is a Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and ...
The top five list came out of a survey of millionaires that drew upon answers from 10,000 participants. The majority — 79% — had not received inheritance. Eight out of 10 had invested in a 401 ...
Liu Xiaobo, Carl von Ossietzky and Aung San Suu Kyi were all awarded their Nobel Prize while in prison or detention. [10] Two Nobel laureates, Jean-Paul Sartre (Literature, 1964) and Lê Ðức Thọ (Peace, 1973), declined the award; Sartre declined the award as he declined all official honors, and Thọ declined the award due to the situation ...