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Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist whose 1913 quantum model explained atomic structure; he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 and led Copenhagen's theoretical physics institute.
Nigel Cooper
Nigel R. Cooper is a British theoretical physicist, professor at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, known for research on ultracold atoms, quantum gases, and topological phases of matter.
Nikolay V. Vitanov
Nikolay V. Vitanov is a Bulgarian theoretical physicist and full professor of theoretical physics at Sofia University, known for composite pulses and composite STIRAP, robust techniques for high-fidelity quantum control.
Norbert F. Scherer
Norbert F. Scherer is an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago who joined in 1997 and works on ultrafast spectroscopy, single-molecule microscopy, nanoplasmonics, and optical matter.
Norman F. Ramsey
Norman F. Ramsey (1915–2011) was an American Harvard physicist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the separated oscillatory fields method behind atomic clocks.
Norman Margolus
Norman Margolus is a physicist and computer scientist at MIT, best known for the Margolus–Levitin theorem bounding computation speed and for building cellular automata machines.
Otto Laporte
Otto Laporte (1902–1971) was a German-born American physicist at the University of Michigan, known for the Laporte rule in atomic spectroscopy and for shock tube research.
Otto Stern
Otto Stern was a German-born American experimental physicist who founded molecular beam physics, co-created the 1922 Stern–Gerlach experiment, and won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Otto Wiener (physicist)
Otto Wiener (1862–1927) was a German physicist whose 1890 experiment photographed standing light waves, showing that the electric component of light drives the chemical effect.
Pascale Senellart
Pascale Senellart, born 1972, is a French quantum optician and CNRS research director at Université Paris-Saclay known for semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources; she co-founded Quandela and joined the Académie des sciences in 2022.
Patrick Gill (British physicist)
Patrick Gill is a British physicist and NPL Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, known for optical atomic clocks that underpin a future redefinition of the SI second.
Paul D. Foote
Paul D. Foote was an American physicist known for experimental work on alkali metal vapor spectra and for directing research at Gulf Oil's Gulf Research & Development Company in Pittsburgh.
Paul J. Dagdigian
Paul J. Dagdigian is a chemical physicist and Emeritus Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for studying gas-phase molecular collision dynamics and laser-based trace detection.
Paul Kwiat
Paul G. Kwiat is an American quantum optics physicist who holds the John Bardeen Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and directs its quantum information center.
Paul S. Julienne
Paul S. Julienne is an American theoretical atomic physicist who helped establish the field of ultracold matter and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Paul Sophus Epstein
Paul Sophus Epstein (1883–1966) was a mathematical physicist and Caltech professor known for his 1916 quantum theory of the Stark effect and for Epstein drag.
Peter Høyer
Peter Høyer is a theoretical computer scientist and associate professor at the University of Calgary, known for foundational work on quantum algorithms, query complexity, and quantum walks.
Peter L. Knight
Sir Peter L. Knight is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London whose quantum optics research laid foundations for quantum technology and drove the UK's National Quantum Technologies Programme.
Peter Lodahl
Peter Lodahl is a Danish physicist and professor of quantum physics and technology at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, known for quantum-dot photonics and for founding Sparrow Quantum.
Peter Mueller
Peter Mueller is a Principal Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who applies krypton-81 radiodating to deep groundwater and received the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.
Peter Rakich
Peter T. Rakich is an applied physicist and professor at Yale University whose lab demonstrated stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon waveguides and developed a silicon Brillouin laser.
Peter Schmelcher
Peter Schmelcher is a theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Universität Hamburg since 2010, known for research on ultracold Rydberg atoms, strongly correlated bosons, and Bose-Einstein condensates.
Peter Toschek
Peter Toschek (1933–2020) was a German experimental physicist and laser spectroscopy pioneer who, working with Hans Dehmelt, first photographed single trapped ions and demonstrated their laser cooling.
Peter Zoller
Peter Zoller, born 1952, is an Austrian theoretical physicist at the University of Innsbruck, a founder of quantum information science with trapped ions and cold atoms.
Philip A. Ekstrom
Philip A. Ekstrom is a physicist and former student of Hans Dehmelt who co-authored the 1973 isolation of a single electron at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Philippe Goy
Philippe Goy is a French condensed-matter physicist and CNRS researcher at ENS Paris whose millimeter-wave cavities enabled the 1983 experiments cited in Serge Haroche's 2012 Nobel Prize.
Philippe Grangier
Philippe Grangier, born in 1957, is a French CNRS physicist at the Institut d'Optique in Palaiseau, known for single-photon experiments, Schrödinger cat states, and continuous-variable quantum key distribution.
Pierre Agostini
Pierre Agostini, born 1941 in Tunis, is a French physicist and Ohio State emeritus professor who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for attosecond light pulses.
Pierre Meystre
Pierre Meystre (P. Meystre) is a Swiss theoretical physicist, Regents' Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, known for quantum optics, atom optics, and cavity optomechanics.
Pierre Victor Auger
Pierre Victor Auger (1899–1993) was a French physicist who discovered extensive cosmic-ray air showers in 1938 and helped found CERN and the French Atomic Energy Commission.