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Tilman Pfau
Tilman Pfau is a German atomic physicist who directs the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart, known for ultracold dipolar quantum gases and Rydberg atoms.
Timothy C. Ralph
Timothy C. Ralph, also published as Tim Ralph, is an Australian quantum information scientist and professor at the University of Queensland, known for instigating continuous-variable quantum key distribution.
Timothy W. Schmidt
Timothy W. Schmidt is an Australian physical chemist, Professor and Head of the School of Chemistry at UNSW Sydney, known for photochemical upconversion for solar cells and astrochemistry.
Ugo Fano
Ugo Fano (1912–2001) was an Italian-born American theoretical physicist and biophysicist at the National Bureau of Standards and the University of Chicago, known for the Fano resonance, Fano factor, and Fano effect.
Ulrich Schneider
Ulrich Schneider is a physicist working on ultracold atoms and quantum gases, Professor of Many-Body Physics at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory since 2021, known for observing the first two-dimensional Bose glass.
Vahid Sandoghdar
Vahid Sandoghdar, born 1966 in Tehran, is an Iranian physicist working in quantum optics and nano-optics, directing the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
Valerio Scarani
Valerio Scarani, born 1972 in Milan, is an Italian-Swiss theoretical physicist, professor at the National University of Singapore, known for Bell nonlocality and device-independent quantum cryptography.
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato is a Brazilian physicist working in atomic physics, quantum optics, and biophotonics, a professor at the University of São Paulo and Texas A&M University.
Varun Verma
Varun Verma is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who develops superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Veniamin Petrovich Chebotayev
Veniamin Petrovich Chebotayev (1938–1992) was a Soviet and Russian laser physicist in Novosibirsk, a founder of nonlinear laser spectroscopy, credited with suggesting Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy in 1970.
Vernon Hughes
Vernon Hughes was an American experimental physicist at Yale University who discovered muonium, developed polarized electron beams, and led the precision muon g-2 experiment at Brookhaven.
Vinod M. Menon
Vinod M. Menon is a physicist at the City College of New York known for strong light–matter coupling, polaritons, and his 2012 Science paper on topological transitions in metamaterials.
Vladan Vuletić
Vladan Vuletić (Serbian: Владан Вулетић) is a Serbian-born atomic physicist and Lester Wolfe Professor at MIT since 2003, known for entanglement research and co-founding QuEra Computing.
Vladilen Letokhov
Vladilen Letokhov (Владилен Летохов) was a Russian physicist who pioneered laser isotope separation, resonance ionization spectroscopy, and laser cooling of atoms, leading laser spectroscopy at the Institute of Spectroscopy in Troitsk.
Vladimir I. Balykin
Vladimir I. Balykin is a Russian physicist at the Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, known for the first laser cooling of neutral atoms, reported around 1980.
Vlatko Vedral
Vlatko Vedral is a British quantum information scientist, Professor of Quantum Information Science at Oxford since 2009 and a principal investigator at Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies.
W. Carl Lineberger
W. Carl Lineberger (1939 to 2023) was an American physicist and chemist who spent five decades at JILA, building negative-ion photoelectron spectroscopy into a general method.
Walther Gerlach
Walther Gerlach (1889–1979) was a German experimental physicist who, with Otto Stern, performed the Stern–Gerlach experiment of 1921–22, the first demonstration that atomic magnetic moments are quantized.
Walther Kossel
Walther Kossel (1888–1956) was a German physicist who explained ionic bonding as electron transfer to complete outer shells and discovered the X-ray interference patterns called Kossel lines.
Walther Ritz
Walther Ritz (1878–1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist who formulated the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle for spectral lines in 1908 and created the Ritz method of variational calculation.
Warren Nagourney
Warren Nagourney is an experimental physicist who co-led the first published observation of quantum jumps in a single trapped atom, at the University of Washington in 1986.
Warwick Bowen
Warwick Bowen is an Australian quantum physicist at the University of Queensland who leads the Queensland Quantum Optics Laboratory and directs the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology.
Waseem Bakr
Waseem Bakr is an experimental atomic physicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University, known for building the first quantum gas microscopes for imaging individual atoms in optical lattices.
Wayne M Itano
Wayne M. Itano is an American atomic physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, known for laser cooling theory, the quantum Zeno effect, and trapped-ion quantum logic gates.
Weibo Gao
Weibo Gao (高伟博) is a Chinese quantum physicist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for the 2012 observation of entanglement between a quantum dot spin and a single photon.
Werner Neuhauser
Werner Neuhauser is a physicist who, as a research associate in Peter Toschek's group at Heidelberg, co-authored the 1980 first observation of a single trapped barium ion.
Wilhelm Hallwachs
Wilhelm Hallwachs, also known as Wilhelm Ludwig Franz Hallwachs, was a German experimental physicist who in 1888 demonstrated that ultraviolet light discharges negatively charged bodies, the photoelectric effect.
William D. Phillips
William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist at NIST in Maryland who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
William E. Moerner
William E. Moerner (W. E. Moerner) is an American physical chemist at Stanford University who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
William Frederick Meggers
William Frederick Meggers was an American spectroscopist at the National Bureau of Standards who measured the spectra of about 50 elements and established iron lines as international wavelength standards.