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Ellwood P. Cubberley High School

Among the alumni of Cubberley are artist and author James Gurney, actor Zeljko Ivanek, and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Gregg Rolie also graduated Cubberley circa 1965 and is known for being a founding member of both Santana and Journey.

Heinrich Hora

Heinrich Hora (born 1931 in Bodenbach, Czechoslovakia) is a German-Australian theoretical physicist who made contributions to solid state physics, optical properties of plasma with relativistic and quantum effects and nonlinear dynamics with applications of lasers for producing nuclear fusion energy.

Illana Katz

By this time, Katz had spent six years researching the life of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, the last two years being a collaboration with Dr. Edward Ritvo.

Jürg Fröhlich

Jürg Martin Fröhlich (born 4 July 1946 in Schaffhausen) is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist.

Kennedy J. Reed

Kennedy J. Reed is a theoretical physicist in the Theory Group in the Physics & Advanced Technologies Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a founder of the National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC), a group of about 30 universities that provides physics fellowships for women and minorities.

Klaus Lackner

Trained as a theoretical physicist, he has made a number of contributions to the field of Carbon Capture and Storage since 1995, including early work on the sequestration of carbon dioxide in silicate minerals and zero emission power plant design.

Werner Döring

Werner Döring (2 September 1911, Berlin – 6 June 2006, Malente) was a German theoretical physicist.


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Abraham Klein

Abraham Klein (physicist) (1927–1972), American theoretical physicist at the University of Pennsylvania

Alexei Abrikosov

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (born 1928), Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist; son of Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov

Andrew Schofield

Andrew John Schofield, also known as Andy Schofield, theoretical physicist

Barcelona's Multiverse

It is based on the theories of theoretical physicist, Max Tegmark (MIT) in the Multiverse Level I.

Betatron

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku said he tried to build a betatron in his garage while still in high school.

Bricmont

Jean Bricmont (born 1952), Belgian theoretical physicist, philosopher of science and academic

Carlos Bertulani

Carlos A. Bertulani is a Brazilian & American theoretical physicist and professor at the Department of Physics of the Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Christopher Hill

Christopher T. Hill (born 1951), theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois

David Whiffen

He was the first to successfully test the predictions of the underlying theory of Peter Debye, the Dutch-American theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1936 for his work on molecular structure, the theory of dipole moments in liquids and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases.

GeForce 800 Series

It will serve as the introduction for the Maxwell architecture (GM-codenamed chips), named after the Scottish theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

Hestenes

David Hestenes (* 1933), American theoretical physicist and science educator

Holy Sonnets

It is thought that theoretical physicist and Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), regarded as the "father of the Atomic Bomb", named the site of the first nuclear weapon test site "Trinity" after a phrase from Donne's Sonnet XIV.

İsmail Hakkı

İsmail Hakkı Duru (born 1946), Turkish theoretical physicist and professor of Mathematics

John Urquhart Cameron

During his time in California he attended lectures given at Caltech by the great theoretical Physicist Richard Feynman.

Karel Niessen

Upon Niessen’s return to The Netherlands in 1929, he took a lifelong position as a theoretical physicist at Philips Electronics in Eindhoven.

Ken Currie

Currie was commissioned by the University of Edinburgh to paint a portrait of Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist, which was unveiled in 2009.

Leonard I. Schiff

Schiff was a theoretical physicist who, after completing his doctorate, worked as a research associate for two years at the University of California and the California Institute of Technology.

Motl

Luboš Motl (born December 5, 1973) - a Czech theoretical physicist

National Science Week

Past participants have included polar explorer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis, NASA Astronaut Katherine Megan McArthur; environmentalist Tanya Ha; theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss; and palaeontologist Scott Sampson.

Onsager

Lars Onsager, a Norwegian–American physical chemist and theoretical physicist

Pari, Civitella Paganico

Pari Center for New Learning, a non-profit educational center directed by physicist F. David Peat, who co-authored the book Science, Order, and Creativity with theoretical physicist David Bohm.

Patrick N. Keating

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.

Pendry

John Pendry (born 4 July 1943), English theoretical physicist

Pierre Hohenberg

Pierre C. Hohenberg (born 3 October 1934 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French-American theoretical physicist, who works primarily on statistical mechanics.

Shin Megami Tensei

:He is based on the real-life theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

South Houston High School

Nathan Isgur (1964): theoretical physicist; winner of Sakurai Prize in Physics; Chief Scientist of Jefferson Physics Lab.

Stephen Hawking's Universe

Stephen Hawking's Universe is an astronomical documentary from 1997 made for the Public Broadcasting Service featuring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

University Academy Birkenhead

David John Pearson, theoretical physicist and computer scientist, architect of the CADES software engineering system

Verlinde

Herman Verlinde (born 1962), Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist.

Erik Verlinde (born 1962), Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist.

Walter Newall

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.

Walter Weizel

Walter Friedrich Karl Weizel (b. 1 August 1901 in Lauterecken; d. 6 August 1982) was a German theoretical physicist and politician.

Where's George?

Money flow displayed through Where's George was used in a 2006 research paper published by theoretical physicist Dirk Brockmann and his coworkers.

William Newcomb

William Newcomb (died 1999), a professor and theoretical physicist at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, is best known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960.

Yukawa

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