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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (Rome, 29 September 1901 – Chicago, 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, particularly remembered for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics....
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Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee (T.D. Lee, Chinese: 李政道; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-born American physicist, well known for his work on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1926 (age 83 years)
Emilio G. Segrè
Emilio Gino Segrè (1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, who with Owen Chamberlain, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle.
Segrè was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Tivoli, near...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1905
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1989 (age 84 years)
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery, with collaborator Emilio Segrè, of antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle.
Born in San Francisco, California,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1920
Date of death:
- Feb 28, 2006 (age 85 years)
James Rainwater
Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 – May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
Rainwater was born in December 9, 1917 in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 9, 1917
Date of death:
- May 31, 1986 (age 68 years)
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents who emigrated to the US from Russia, and excelled particularly in art while growing up. He became interested in physics after reading a...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1930 (age 79 years)
Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred S. Dresselhaus (born Mildred Spiewak on November 11, 1930 in The Bronx, New York) is an Institute Professor and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dresselhaus received her...
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1930 (age 79 years)
Ugo Fano
Ugo Fano (July 28, 1912 – February 13, 2001) was an Italo-American physicist, a leader in theoretical physics in the 20th century.
He was born in Turin, Italy.
His father was Gino Fano, a prominent mathematician, and his brother, Robert Fano, is an...
Date of birth:
- Jul 28, 1912
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 2001 (age 88 years)
Geoffrey Chew
Geoffrey F. Chew (born in 1924) is an American theoretical physicist.
He has worked as a professor of physics at the UC Berkeley since 1957 and has been an emeritus since 1991. Chew holds a PhD in theoretical particle physics (1944-1946) from the...
Date of birth:
- 1924 (age 86 years)
Arthur H Rosenfeld
Dr. Arthur H Rosenfeld (born 1927) is a Commissioner of the California Energy Commission since 2000.
Rosenfeld earned a PhD (1954) in Physics from the University of Chicago where he was the last graduate student of Enrico Fermi.
1955-1973 He worked...
Date of birth:
- 1927 (age 83 years)
Marshall Rosenbluth
Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (5 February, 1927 – 28 September, 2003) was an American plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1927
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 2003 (age 76 years)
Sam Treiman
Sam Bard Treiman (May 27, 1925 - November 30, 1999) was an American theoretical physicist who produced important research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. He made major contri butions to the...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1925
Date of death:
- Nov 30, 1999 (age 74 years)
