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Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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Two of the base SI units and 17 of the derived units are named after scientists. [2] 28 non-SI units are named after scientists. By this convention, their names are immortalised. As a rule, the SI units are written in lowercase letters, but symbols of units derived from the name of a person begin with a capital letter.
Name of the scientist [1] Life Nationality Name of the constant Isaac Newton: 1643–1727 British: Newtonian constant of gravitation: Leonhard Euler: 1707–1783 Swiss: Euler's number: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb: 1736–1806 French: Coulomb constant: Amedeo Avogadro: 1776–1856 Italian: Avogadro constant: Michael Faraday: 1791–1867 British ...
By 2003, consensus among physicists was growing that Hawking was wrong about the loss of information in a black hole. [186] In a 2004 lecture in Dublin, he conceded his 1997 bet with Preskill, but described his own, somewhat controversial solution to the information paradox problem, involving the possibility that black holes have more than one ...
List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants This page was last edited on 19 March 2024, at 07:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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.
Lev Landau, theoretical physicist, developed the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity, explained the Landau damping in plasma physics, pointed out the Landau pole in quantum electrodynamics, co-author of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics, Nobel Prize winner; Grigory Landsberg, co-discoverer of Raman scattering of light Lenz