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Nathan Rosen Facts

Nathan Rosen (Hebrew: נתן רוזן; March 22, 1909 – December 18, 1995) was an American-Israeli physicist noted for his study on the structure of the hydrogen atom and his work with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky on entangled wave functions

Yuri Oganessian Facts

Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (Russian: Юрий Цолакович Оганесян, born 14 April 1933 in Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent. He and his team discovered the heaviest elements in the periodic table.

Emmanuel David Tannenbaum Facts

Emmanuel David Tannenbaum (June 28, 1978 – May 28, 2012) was an Israeli/American biophysicist and applied mathematician. He worked as a professor and researcher in the Department of Chemistry at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Depart

Friedrich Kottler Facts

Friedrich Kottler (December 10, 1886 – May 11, 1965) was an Austrian theoretical physicist. He was a Privatdozent before he got a professorship in 1923 at the University of Vienna.

Walter Zinn Facts

Walter Henry Zinn (December 10, 1906 – February 14, 2000) was a nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956. He worked at the Manhattan Project’s Metallurgical Laboratory during World War II, an

Marcia Keith Facts

Marcia Anna Keith (1859–1950) was a physicist, teacher of physics to women, and a charter member of the American Physical Society since its founding in 1899.

Hakeem Oluseyi Facts

Hakeem M. Oluseyi is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, and humanitarian. Since 2007, he has been a professor of Physics & Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, currently

Klaus von Klitzing Facts

Klaus von Klitzing (born 28 June 1943, Schroda) is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.

William Sutherland Facts

William Sutherland (September 3, 1854 – June 13, 1930) was a general merchant and political figure in the Northwest Territories, Canada. He represented Qu’Appelle in the 1st Council of the Northwest Territories from 1887 to 1888 and North Qu’Appell

Lucy Wilson Facts

Lucy Wilson (1888–1980) was an American physicist, known for her research on theories of vision, optics and X-ray spectroscopy.BiographyShe was born October 19, 1888 in Bloomington, Illinois, the daughter of Lucy Barron White and John James Speed W

Marion Bahat Facts

Robert Andrews Millikan Facts

Robert A. Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.