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Boris Stoyanov
Boris Stoyanov is a theoretical physicist working on Membrane Theory, Supergravity and Superstring Theory. He is the Principal and Permanent Member of SUGRA INSTITUTE, Executive Director of BRANE HEPLAB and the Giordano Bruno Professor of Membrane Theory at DARK MODULI INSTITUTE. Boris Stoyanov is a relatively young theoretical physicist dealing with the exclusive theories of supergravity, super
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Bruno Augenstein
Bruno Wilhelm Augenstein (March 16, 1923 – July 6, 2005) was a Germany -born mathematician and physicist who made important contributions in space technology, ballistic missile research, satellites, antimatter, and many other areas. Augenstein worked in the Aerophysics Laboratory at North American Aviation on diverse projects including weaponization of the V-2 rocket, a ramjet-powered vehic
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Carl Eckart
Carl Henry Eckart (May 4, 1902 in St. Louis, Missouri – October 23, 1973 in La Jolla, California ) was an United States physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner–Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics,[1] and the Eckart–Young theorem in linear algebra.[2] Eckart began college in 1919 at Washing
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Carl H. Brans
Carl Henry Brans (/brænz/; born December 13, 1935) is an American mathematical physicist best known for his research into the theoretical underpinnings of gravitation elucidated in his most widely publicized work, the Brans–Dicke theory. A Texas , born in Dallas, Carl Brans spent his academic career in neighboring Louisiana, graduating in 1957 from Loyola University New Orleans. Having obt
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, born on November 7, 1888, and passed away on November 21, 1970, was a distinguished Indian physicist renowned for his contributions to the study of light scattering. Alongside his student K. S. Krishnan, he developed a spectrograph and made a groundbreaking discovery – the modification of light scattering when it passes through a transparent material. This phenome
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Charles V. Shank
Charles Vernon (Chuck) Shank (born July 12, 1943) is an American physicist, best known as the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1989 to 2004. Charles Vernon (Chuck) Shank was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, on July 12, 1943.[1][2][3] He entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in 1965, his Master of Science
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Chih-Kung Jen
Chih-Kung Jen (Chinese: 任之恭; pinyin: Rén Zhīgōng; August 15 or October 2, 1906 – November 19, 1995) was a Chinese physicist who emigrated to the U.S. and participated in some of the 20th century's major scientific, political and social developments in both the United States and China. Born in a mud house in a remote and largely illiterate village in China, he was awarded a scholarshi
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Christopher Slowe
Christopher Brian Slowe (born November 8, 1978, Boston, MA) is an American businessman. He gained his PhD in Physics from Harvard, went on to co-found reddit, with Aaron Swartz, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman. He later departed reddit and began work for Hipmunk, where he has been Chief Scientist since 2010. Slowe was awarded his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard for his thesis "Experiments and
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Clyde Cowan
Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (December 6, 1919 in Detroit, Michigan – May 24, 1974 in Bethesda, Maryland) was an American physicist, the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment.[1] Frederick Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names. Born the oldest of four children in Detroit, Michigan, Cowa
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (/ˈfærənhaɪt/; German: [ˈfaːʁənhaɪt]; 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736)[1] was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), then a predominantly German-speaking city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He later moved to the Dutch Republic at age 15, where he spent the re
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