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A.I. Shlyakhter is a Russian physicist who noted that the existence of the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo in Gabon gave evidence that the physical fine-structure constant α has changed less than 10−17 per year over the last two billion years.
Albert Tarantola was a Catalan-born physicist (Barcelona, June 15, 1949 — December 6, 2009), of the University of Paris (Institut de Physique du Globe), and author of the book probabilistic formulation of inverse problems (Tarantola, 1987, 2005).
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (born 1928), Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist; son of Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov
Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975), American physicist and philanthropist
Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (November 3, 1863 / Metz, France – November 28, 1925 / Paris, France) was a French physicist.
He personally supervised all Soviet dissident cases including Sergei Kovalyov, Gleb Yakunin, Alexei Smirnov, and Yuri Orlov.
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886–1950), physicist at the University of Chicago and Manhattan Project participant
Biotite was named by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847 in honour of the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot, who, in 1816, researched the optical properties of mica, discovering many unique properties.
In 1980, British Petroleum (known as BP after 2000) established a blue skies research initiative called the Venture Research Unit, headed by particle physicist Donald Braben.
Jean Bricmont (born 1952), Belgian theoretical physicist, philosopher of science and academic
Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, Asti – 25 October 1884, Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.
The modern 'resonant' cavity magnetron tube was invented by John Randall and Harry Boot in 1940 at the University of Birmingham, England.
C. P. Snow (Charles Percy Snow) (1905–1980), English physicist and novelist
(The research of the Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov at Sarov was more advanced, but for a long time the whole field of megagauss research was covered by military secrecy).
Being a conscientious objector to World War II he spent the war years at Oxford with physicist Kurt Mendelssohn where they worked on medical problems relating to the war effort.
David L. Webster (1888–1976), American physicist in early X-ray theory
Duino is noted for being the place where the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann committed suicide and for inspiring the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to write his Duino Elegies.
Physicist Amory Lovins has said that following hundreds of blackouts in 2005, Cuba reorganized its electricity transmission system into networked microgrids and cut the occurrence of blackouts to zero within two years, limiting damage even after two hurricanes.
Fyodor Grigoryevich Reshetnikov (1919 - 2011) - Soviet physicist and metallurgist
George K. Miley, physicist, professor of astronomy at Leiden University, see Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–6500
Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in 1902
Harold Roper Robinson (1889–1955), physicist, FRS, academic, Vice-Chancellor
British physicist Oliver Lodge demonstrated the existence of Maxwell's waves transmitted along wires in 1887–88.
Jeffrey Ellis Mandula (*1941 in New York City) is a physicist well known for the Coleman–Mandula theorem from 1967.
John R. Platt (1918-1992), American physicist and biophysicist.
José Goldemberg (born in Santo Ângelo, May 27, 1928), a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, is a leading expert on energy end environment issues.
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757–1837), French physicist, inventor and pioneer in parachuting
However, several prominent UFO researchers, among them Dr. James E. McDonald, a physicist at the University of Arizona, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University, disputed this explanation.
For a time she provided accommodation to another Austrian émigré, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger.
Later, the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in his study of the wave nature of light succeeded in expressing waves and the electromagnetic spectrum in a mathematical formula.
Michael H. Hart (born 1932), American physicist and futurist author
One of the few preserved historic original buildings, it was the residence of the notable Knoblauch family with members like the architect Eduard Knoblauch or the physicist Karl-Hermann Knoblauch.
Patrick N. Keating is a theoretical physicist who has contributed to several fields of solid-state physics, including semiconductors, semi-insulators and the basic properties of solid materials, and to other fields including optics, liquid crystals, acoustic holography, and signal processing.
John Pendry (born 4 July 1943), English theoretical physicist
Philip Morrison (1915–2005), American physicist involved with the Manhattan Project, who later became a faculty member at MIT
Professor Richard Joseph "Dick" Davisson (December 29, 1922 – June 15, 2004) was an American physicist.
The Robert A. Millikan House is the former home of American physicist Robert A. Millikan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923.
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born April 11, 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died October 28, 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.
Robert J. Lang (born 1961), American origami theorist and physicist
Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), German physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895.
Furthermore, Vasco Ronchi (1897-1988), the Italian physicist who specialized in optics, also published an article on the subject as did the American historian of science Edward Rosen (1906-1985) and the Italian professor of ophthamology Giuseppe Albertotti (1851-1936).
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom From the Science of Change is a book by Western Connecticut State University English Professor John Briggs and Physicist F. David Peat (who also co-authored Turbulent Mirror).
Gordon Shrum (1896–1985), Canadian physicist and first chancellor of Simon Fraser University
In the 1920s, Walter Stanley Stiles, a young physicist at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England, examined the effects of street lighting and headlight features on automobile traffic accidents, which were becoming increasingly prevalent at the time.
The novel also contains explicit references to classical literature and modern writings, including the scientific works of the Jesuit and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the physicist Stephen Hawking, and some of the fiction of author Jack Vance.
Thomas Ranken Lyle (1860-1944), Irish physicist and rugby union international player
After working in the Post Office Research Station for three years, Flett worked as a research physicist at Simmonds Aerocessories in Brentford for two years.
The most recent thinker to describe a two-stage model is Martin Heisenberg (son of physicist Werner Heisenberg), chair of the University of Würzburg's BioZentrum genetics and neurobiology section.
His built works included villas at Cardoness (1828), for Sir David Maxwell, Baronet, and Glenlair, Corsock (1830), home of mathematician and theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981), FRSE (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki?, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) né Ogawa (小川?), was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate