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Alongside his more than 150 articles on astronomy and astrophysics, he published 70 historical studies, biographical memoirs, and obituaries of major figures in nineteenth and twentieth century astronomy, and numerous book reviews.
Dowden was made a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. [1] The Otago Daily Times, in its obituary for Dowden, described him as an "award-winning researcher" and an "influential teacher". [1]
Wilkinson was a Professor of Physics at Princeton University from 1965 until his retirement in 2002. He made fundamental contributions to many major cosmic microwave background experiments, including two NASA satellites: the Cosmic Background Explorer and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (), the latter of which was named in his honor after his death due to cancer on September 5, 2002.
Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics [226] Filippo Zappata: 1894–1994: 100: Italian aircraft designer and pioneer [227] Zhang Guangdou: 1912–2013: 101: Chinese engineer [228] Zhang Tianfu: 1910–2017: 106: Chinese agronomist and tea expert [229] Zhang Xingqian: 1921–2022: 100
Philip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics, high energy astrophysics, and SETI.
His obituary in The New York Times said that Stix's "elegant mastery of the literally infinite complexities of waves in electrified gases helped create a new field of science." [ 2 ] In 2013, the American Physical Society created the Thomas H. Stix Award, presented annually to a plasma physics researcher with outstanding contributions early in ...
Melvin Schwartz (/ ʃ w ɔːr t s / SHWORTS; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist.He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.
In 1973, he was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member. [23] [24] He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. [25] [26] Dicke was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics multiple times. [27]