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  • John Toner (physicist) John Toner is an American Theoretical Condensed Matter Physicist. In 2020, the American Physical Society awarded him the Lars Onsager Prize for Theoretical Statistical Physics (shared with Yuhai Tu and Tomas Vicsek). He was the Martin Gutzwiller Fellow for 2019-2020 at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden, Germany. He was a Simons Fellow in 2012-2013, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon. Dr. Toner received a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, where his thesis advisor was David Nelson. He was The James Franck Fellow at the University of Chicago, and a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He has worked on a wide range of topics in Condensed Matter Physics, including liquid crystals, superconductors, quasicrystals, non-equilibrium dynamical systems, active matter), and disordered systems. His development with Yuhai Tu of the hydrodynamic theory of "flocking", and specifically their invention of what are now known as the "Toner-Tu" equations, played a major role in starting the field of active matter. It was for this work that he was awarded the Onsager Prize. [4]
  • Donald F. Geesaman American experimental nuclear physicist working at Argonne National Laboratory. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as the director of the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory and the Chair of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) for the US Department of Energy and the US National Science Foundation. Dr. Geesaman earned his Bachelor's degree from the Colorado School of Mines in 1971 and both his M.A (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) in Physics from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
  • Elke-Caroline Aschenauer German experimental particle physicist working at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, United States. She is an expert on the nucleon structure and on the parton dynamics in the context of quantum chromodynamics. In 2018, Aschenauer has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award [Humboldt], attributed by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany. Berndt Mueller, Brookhaven Lab’s Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, mentioned, “Elke has been one of the driving forces of the RHIC Spin program over the past decade, which culminated in the discovery that gluons are major contributors to the spin of the proton. In addition, she has established herself as one of the global leaders developing the science program of a proposed future Electron-Ion Collider. The Humboldt Research Award recognizes her outsized contributions to the science of nucleon structure.”
  • Alain Moise Dikande, Cameroonean physicist, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow [5]
  • Alvaro De Rujula (req. 2008-09-17) – theoretical physicist; works for Boston University and CERN; see q:Alvaro De Rujula
  • Andrew Beckwith (physicist) (req. pre 2012-01-15) probably Andrew Walcott Beckwith; currently working at Chongqing University [6])
  • Arvind (Physicist) (Acting Director and Physics Professor at IISER Mohali. Has worked and taught at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar; IIT Madras; Carnegie Mellon University.) (http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/faculty/dps/arvind https://indianexpress.com/article/education/chandigarh-iiser-scientists-quantum-computer-cps-cyber-physical-systems-5659653/ http://14.139.227.202/Faculty/arvind/)
  • Asher Yahalom (req. pre 2012-01-15) b. 1968; theoretical physicist from Israel; [7]
  • Attila Krasznahorkay Institute for Nuclear Research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Atomki)
  • Barry Setterfield (b. 1942) Australian physicist [8]
  • Bernhard Mecking (once was head of TJNAF; [9]).
  • John Fisher (physicist) (1919-2018), physicist; also 15th Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force [10], [11]
  • Christian Buth, physicist, [12]
  • Christian Thomsen (physicist) (req. 2015-02-12; b. in 1959) – German physicist, president of TU Berlin, [13]
  • Christopher Fuchs (Fuchs, Christopher A.; req. pre 2012-01-15), American physicist; APS Fellow [14][15]
  • Claus Jonsson (req. pre 2012-01-15) Universitat Tübingen; see de:Claus Jonsson
  • Conrad Dieterici (1858–1929) (req. pre 2012-01-15); see de:Conrad Dieterici; [16]
  • Daniel F. V. James (req. pre 2014-10-15) – professor of quantum optics at the University of Toronto
  • David D. Lynch (req. pre 2012-01-15) Delco Electronics Corp; invented Hemispherical Resonator Gyro (HRG); he is actually an engineer; [17]
  • David Hochberg (req. pre 2012-01-15) Spanish theoretical physicist; [18]
  • David Wallace (philosopher of physics) (b. 1976; Wallace, David S.; Balliol College, Oxford, req. pre 2012-01-15) – [19]
  • Edouard Tsyganov (b. 1933) experimental physicist who led Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia during it's collaboration with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on joint studies involving interactions of pions, protons and neutrinos. The collaboration was one of the first scientific endeavors to bridge scientific ties betwene the US and the USSR in the height of the Cold War. The collaboration measured the charge radius of the pion by bombarding electrons with negative pions. [20]
  • Or Hen Israeli nuclear physicist and the Class of 1956 CD Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. Known for his studies using scattering of high-energy electrons, photons, protons and radioactive ions to understand the nature and formation mechanisms of short-ranged nucleon-correlations in nuclei and the interplay between partonic and nucleonic degrees of freedom in nuclei, and nuclear effects in neutrino interactions for precision oscillation measurements. A co-leader in the development of the ePIC experiment at the U.S. Electron-Ion Collider. Hen was recognized by many fellowships and awards including the APS Stuart J. Freedman award (“For innovative, wide-ranging, experiments that found important manifestations of nuclear neutron-proton short-range correlations”), Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, DOE Early Career Award, IUPAP Young Scientist Prize, Guido Altareli Award, and others.
  • Edward M. Thorndike - one of the originators of the Kennedy–Thorndike experiment, an important proof in Special relativity
  • Roy J. Kennedy - the other originator of the Kennedy–Thorndike experiment
  • Elihu Boldt (req. pre 2012-01-15) Elihu A. Boldt, 1931–2008, X-ray astronomer at Goddard Space Flight Center; [21]
  • Fu-Kwun Hwang (computer modelling; [22]; National Taiwan Normal University)
  • George Abraham Snow (1926-2000) (req. pre 2012-01-15) [23]
  • H. Frederick Dylla (req. pre 2012-01-15) Director of American Institute of Physics as of 2014; [24]
  • Hariharan Parameshwaran varan. He is an Indian physicist. He invented H.P.varan pumb/mercury diffution pumb. He made mirror for Sir C.V.Raman.
  • Ian Dell'Antonio (req. 2023-07-21) is an observational cosmologist, currently professor of physics at Brown University. He is a member of the LSST collaboration. [25][26][27][28]
  • Igor Smolyaninov (req. pre 2012-01-15) Russian physicist; [29]
  • Joel David Green – previous Project Scientist in the Office of Public Outreach at STSci, lead of several Herschel, SOFIA, and ground-based general observer programs, and collaborator in numerous initiatives with JWST – [30]
  • L. David Roper (req. pre 2012-01-15) b.1935; US physicist; Ph.D. in theoretical physics from MIT; faculty of Virginia Tech; [31]
  • Leo Piilonen (physics of neutrino; [32])
  • Richard Kouzes (Physicist); Homeland security, radiation detection, safeguards, neutrino physics, muon tomography;[33]
  • Marc H. Brodsky (req. pre 2012-01-15) Director of American Institute of Physics from 1993 to 2007; [34]
  • Massimo Corbucci (b. 1954) (req. pre 2012-01-15) – [35]; [36]
  • Peter Kazansky, Physicist in Optoelectronics, pioneer of the 5D Optical storage https://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/people/pgk
  • Richard Manliffe Sutton (req. pre 2012-01-15 (1900-1966) [37])
  • Rolf Landua (req. pre 2012-01-15) [38]
  • Samuel L. Marateck, Professor of Computer Science at NYU. Yang-Mills theory and Feynman Diagrams. Author of 7 computer science textbooks. More info [39]
  • Shih-I Pai (1913-1996; aeronautical researcher at the University of Maryland [40])
  • Song Jin-joo [41]
  • Thomas Kephart (req. pre 2012-01-15) [42]
  • Veljko Radeka – physicist and engineer; winner of several IEEE and American Physical Society awards for work on detectors and related cold and low-noise electronics for particle and nuclear physics; with William J Willis invented electromagnetic and argon liquid calorimeters (crucial part of many world's accelerators).
  • Viqar Husain – Theoretical physicist and Professor at the University of New Brunswick. Works in general relativity and quantum gravity. Known for the Husain-Kuchar model, new exact solutions of Einstein's equations, and self-dual gravity; [43]; [44];[45]; [46]
  • William Bertozzi (Creator of the experiment which proved mass increasing with speed)
  • Ziro Maki (1929–2005) – Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix for neutrino flavour oscillations; prediction of the J/ψ meson; 1977 Nishina Memorial Prize laureate; Obituary notice here
  • Francesco Caravelli (Physicist) Recipient of the 2017 JR Oppenheimer Distinguished fellowship in Los Alamos for his work on the complexity of memristor interactions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromorphic_engineering). He is associated with a number of other important findings in Quantum Graphity and in the Functional Renormalization Group in Gravity, in Complexity Economics and Statistical Physics.
  • Arjun Berera (Theoretical Physicist) Originally developed the theory of warm inflation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_inflation). He is known for his work on the Panspermia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia) mechanism "Space dust collisions as a planetary escape mechanism."
  • Jos Vermaseren - the man who has been developing FORM ([47])
  • Lists of things named after physicists - several (see talk site)

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See also: List of physicists

Nuclear physics edit

  • Antisymmetrized molecular dynamics – see [56]
  • Curie plot – a means to count the number of observed particles in interval ranges, as in a histogram of particle energies
  • Gamma Ray Emission Spectrum (data page) an index of gamma ray emission energies (the kind measured in Gamma spectroscopy). For example, K-40's emission is a broad peak at around 1461keV.
  • Geiger-Klemperer ball counter – apparently commonly used in research in the 1930s; see this Google search
  • Hydrogen-boron fusion (H-B) fusion – perhaps see Aneutronic fusion?
  • Introduction to radioactivity (or Introduction to radioactive decay) as the subject can be difficult for some people.
  • Methods in nuclear physics
  • Nuclear energetics – Calculations of energy released from all types of nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, capture, decay). Part of Nuclear reaction. Uses Nuclear binding energy as the theoretical basis and describes how it is applied in multiple reactions and species. Consolidation from Decay heat, Decay energy, Nuclear reaction#Energy Conservation, and Nuclear fission#Energetics. Finally, discuss the measurements and simulation of complicated models. This article should not discuss practical aspects of harvesting or removing heat from reactions. See "Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering" (PDF).
  • Nuclear fuel cell – Would be nice for people to explain it, and whether it would be theoretically possible or even efficient; Seems it might just be an imaginary tale of Hollywood
  • Pion photoproduction
  • PM2A – the first portable nuclear reactor, used near Thule Air Base, Greenland for Project Iceworm from 1960 to 1966 by the Army Nuclear Power Program; see this picture (currently redirect)
  • Principles of Nuclear Magnetism – some of Nuclear magnetic moment may be intimidating, but there are many links from there
  • Pycnodeuterium – a molecular form of deuterium used in cold fusion reactors (currently redirect to Deuterium)
  • Radiopurity – Freedom from radioactive contamination. The word is used in numerous low-background physics experiments' articles, and might be worth a brief definition. Or maybe a redirect?
  • Real physical nuclear models
  • Reverse Compton Edge
  • Upgraded SG-II & SG-III – SG-III is a laser facility (200kJ/48 beams) which is expected to be completed in 2012. [57] [58]
  • Bragg-Kleeman Rule -   where R (1 and 2) are the ranges of particle 1 and 2,   (1 and 2) is the density of the medium particle 1 or 2 is traveling through, and A is the atomic weight for particle 1 or 2. It is a relation useful in detection methods for particles. It is discussed briefly in Nuclear Electronics by P.W. Nicholson. I was searching for this article because I had a question about the rule, so I can't really provide much more information.

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References edit

  1. ^ Raĭzer, Y.P., 1980. Optical discharges. Physics-Uspekhi, 23(11), pp.789-806.
  2. ^ Generalov, N.A., Zimakov, V.P., Kozlov, G.I., Masyukov, V.A. and Raizer, Y.P., 1970. Continuous optical discharge. ZhETF Pisma Redaktsiiu, 11, p.447.
  3. ^ Plasma Chemistry. Cambridge University Press. 2008. p. 229. ISBN 9781139471732. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
  4. ^ BAPS.2013.DFD.R8.4[1]
  5. ^ BPAS.2015.MAR.V1.285[2]
  6. ^ BAPS.2015.APR.T1.26[3]
  7. ^ Ammon, Martin; Erdmenger, Johanna (2015). Gauge/Gravity Duality: Foundations and Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107010345.
  8. ^ Probst, Jonas (2018). Applications of the Gauge/Gravity Duality (Springer Theses). Springer International Publishing AG. ISBN 978-3319939667.
  9. ^ Kerner, Patrick (2012). Gauge/Gravity Duality: A Road Towards Reality. Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften. ISBN 978-3838134734.
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