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Shi Nguyen-Kuok
Shi Nguyen-Kuok (Nguyễn Quốc Sỹ; born February 20, 1967, in Hanoi) is a plasma scientist and the chairman of the VinIT Institute of Technology. Nguyen-Kuok was born on February 20, 1967. He graduated from high school in 1983 with honors. In the same year, he passed the state examination for admission to higher education. At the end of the contest, he was selected for a scholarship in th
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Robert Griffiths
Robert B. Griffiths (February 25, 1937) is an American physicist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the originator of the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics, which has since been developed by himself, Roland Omnès, Murray Gell-Mann, and James Hartle. Robert B. Griffiths was born in Etah, Uttar Pradesh in 1937 to Presbyterian missionaries. Griffiths attended Woodstock School
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John C. Baez
John Carlos Baez (/ˈbaɪɛz/; born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR)[1] in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory. Baez is also the author of This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics,[2
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Frank J. Tipler
Frank Jennings Tipler (born February 1, 1947) is an American mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University.[1] Tipler has written books and papers on the Omega Point based on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's religious ideas, which he claims is a mechanism for the resurrection of the dead. He is also known for hi
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Vince Ebert
Vince Ebert (* 23 May 1968 in Miltenberg as Holger Ebert) is a Germany comedian, lecturer,[1] presenter, author, and recipient of a degree in physics. Vince Ebert grew up in Amorbach in Lower Franconia (Bavaria). Ebert's classmates gave him the name "Vince" when he was 14 years old because he was a fan of Vince Weber.[2] After his military service with the Signal Corps,[3] he studied physics
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Richard Garwin
Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an United States physicist, widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.[1][2] Garwin received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi at the age of 21. Another of Fermi's students, Marvin L. Goldbe
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Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim
Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim (June 29, 1801 – January 14, 1869) was a German physicist, geographer, and crystallographer. Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim was born in 1801 in Brunswick. His family was Jewish.[1] He attended the Gymnasium (high school) there and in Wolfenbüttel. Afterwards he went to Berlin to attend the Alma Mater Berolinensis (today Humboldt University of Berlin) to study physics.
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Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈɡʊsta(ː)f ˈviːdəman];[1][2]) FRS(For) HFRSE (2 October 1826 – 24 March 1899) was a German physicist and scientific author. Wiedemann was born in Berlin the son of a merchant who died two years later. Following the death of his mother in 1842 he lived with his grandparents.[3] After attending a private school as well
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Franz Josef Giessibl
Franz Josef Gießibl (born 27 May 1962 in Amerang) is a Germany physicist and university professor at the University of Regensburg. Giessibl studied physics from 1982 to 1987 at the Technical University of Munich and at Eidgenössische Technischen Hochschule Zürich. He received a diploma in experimental physics in 1988 with Professor Gerhard Abstreiter and continued with a PhD in physics wit
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Neil Gershenfeld
Neil A. Gershenfeld (born 1959 or 1960)[1] is an United States professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab. His research studies are predominantly focused in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology, and personal fabrication. Gershenfeld attended Swarthmore Col
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