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John W. Moffat (born 24 May 1932)[1] is a Danish-born British-Canadian physicist. He is currently Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of Toronto[2] and is also an adjunct Professor in physics at the University of Waterloo and a resident affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Moffat is best known for his work on gravity and cosmology, culminating in his

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28 Nov 2022

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Elias "Eli" Burstein (September 30, 1917 – June 17, 2017) was an American experimental condensed matter physicist whose active career in science spanned seven decades.[1] He is known for his pioneering fundamental research in the optical physics of solids; for writing and editing hundreds of articles and other publications; for bringing together scientists from around the world in internationa

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09 Dec 2022

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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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17 Feb 2024

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James Robert Rice (born December 3, 1940) is an American engineer, scientist, geophysicist,[1][2] and Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, .[3] Rice is known as mechanician, who has made fundamental contributions to various aspects of solid mechanics. Two of his early contributions are the concep

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27 Dec 2022

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Richard Gaitskell

Richard Jeremy Gaitskell (born May 2, 1965) is a physicist and professor at Brown University, and a leading scientist in the search for particle dark matter.[1] He is co-founder, a principal investigator, and co-spokesperson of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, which announced world-leading[2][3] first results on October 30, 2013. He is also a leading investigator in the new LUX-Zepl

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09 Dec 2022

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Robert E. Hopkins

Robert Earl Hopkins (June 30, 1915 – July 4, 2009) was president of the Optical Society of America in 1973.[1] Recognized as an expert in optical instrument design, aspheric optics, interferometry, lasers, and lens testing, Hopkins has been characterized as the "father of optical engineering." Born in Belmont, MA, in 1915, Hopkins attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) unde

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29 Dec 2022

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Cormac O'Ceallaigh

Cormac O'Ceallaigh (29 July 1912 in Dublin – 10 October 1996 in Dublin) was an Irish physicist who worked in the fields of cosmic ray research and elementary particle physics.[1] He entered University College, Dublin (UCD) to study physics in 1930 and graduated with First Class Honours in Experimental Physics and Chemistry (Inorganic and Physical) in 1933. He got his MSc and an NUI Travell

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14 Dec 2022

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Ignace Robert Dautray

Ignace Robert Dautray, born Kouchelevitz on February 1, 1928 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris,[1] is a French engineer, former scientific director of the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) and former High Commissioner for Atomic Energy. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, section mechanical and computer sciences,[2] and of the French Academy of Technology.[3] Bor

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20 Dec 2022

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Cécile DeWitt-Morette

Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (21 December 1922 – 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement.[1] Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on

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23 Nov 2022

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Keith Schwab (born May 18, 1968) is an United States physicist born in St. Louis, Missouri. His contributions are in the areas of nanoscience, ultra-low temperature physics, and quantum effects. He co-directs the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech with Prof. Nai-Chang Yeh. After attending St. Louis University High, Schwab received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from the University of Chica

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