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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.
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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
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
While the exact definition of orphan and foundlings varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". [1] According to the United Nations, the definition of an orphan is anyone that loses one parent, either through death or abandonment.
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born at his parents' home in Bristol, England, on 8 August 1902, [43] and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city. [44] His father, Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac, was an immigrant from Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, of French descent, [45] who worked in Bristol as a French teacher.
Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee; [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...