Researchers in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information

Dmitry Budker

Dmitry Budker is an experimental atomic physicist known for optical magnetometry, precision tests of fundamental symmetries, and quantum sensing, and is a professor at UC Berkeley and Mainz.

Douglas Hartree (1897–1958) was a British mathematician and physicist who created the self-consistent field method for atomic calculations, built a Meccano differential analyser, and championed early British computing.

E. Norval Fortson

E. Norval Fortson, born 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American atomic physicist at the University of Washington known for precision measurements with lasers and atoms.

Edo Waks

Edo Waks is a quantum photonics researcher and Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, known for spin-photon interfaces and topological quantum optics.

Edward Hinds

Edward Hinds is a British physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, who pioneered ultracold-atom physics, made the first Casimir–Polder force measurement, and directed Imperial College London's Centre for Cold Matter.

Edwin C. Kemble

Edwin C. Kemble (1889–1984) was an American physicist at Harvard University who introduced the quantum study of molecular structure to the United States and wrote a 1937 quantum mechanics textbook.

Eric Cornell

Eric Cornell is an American physicist at NIST and JILA in Boulder who created the first Bose-Einstein condensate in a gas, winning the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Ernst Emil Alexander Back

Ernst Emil Alexander Back (1881–1959) was a German experimental physicist at the University of Tübingen, co-discoverer of the Paschen–Back and Back–Goudsmit effects, whose spectra fed Landé's g-factor formula.

Erwin Hahn

Erwin Hahn (1921–2016) was an American physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1950 discovery of the spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance underlies medical MRI.

Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who formulated wave mechanics, shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, and coined the term quantum entanglement.

Eugen Goldstein

Eugen Goldstein (1850–1930) was a German physicist who worked on electrical discharges in gases, named cathode rays in 1876, and discovered canal rays in 1886, from which mass spectrometry later grew.

Eugene Commins

Eugene Commins (1932–2015) was an American experimental atomic physicist at UC Berkeley known for precision measurements of parity nonconservation and the electron's electric dipole moment.

Eugene Demler

Eugene Demler is a theoretical condensed matter physicist who spent twenty years as a Harvard professor before joining ETH Zurich in 2021, known for the theory behind cold-atom quantum simulators.

Eugene S. Polzik

Eugene S. Polzik, also known as Eugene Polzik, is a Danish-based experimental quantum physicist and professor of physics at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen since 2003.

F. Fleming Crim

F. Fleming Crim is an American physical chemist, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for using lasers to control which bond breaks in a chemical reaction.

Fabio Sciarrino

Fabio Sciarrino, born in Naples in 1978, is an Italian experimental physicist and Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome working in quantum optics and quantum information.

Fedor Jelezko

Fedor Jelezko, born 1971, is a German physicist and professor at Ulm University known for quantum control of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond as nanoscale sensors.

Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, born 1962 in Bonn, is a German experimental physicist working on trapped-ion quantum computing who led the 2003 realization of the Cirac–Zoller controlled-NOT gate and heads the QUANTUM section at Mainz.

Fernando Martín

Fernando Martín García, born in Madrid in 1961, is a Spanish theoretical physicist at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid known for founding theoretical attochemistry.

Floyd K. Richtmyer

Floyd K. Richtmyer (1881–1939) was an American physicist and X-ray spectroscopist who spent his career at Cornell University, led its Graduate School, and wrote the influential textbook Introduction to Modern Physics.

Francis Wheeler Loomis

Francis Wheeler Loomis was an American physicist who discovered the isotope effect in molecular spectra in 1920 and headed the University of Illinois physics department from 1929 to 1957.

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Franco Nori

Franco Nori is a theoretical physicist known for work on superconducting qubits and circuit QED, who led a lab at Japan's RIKEN while teaching at the University of Michigan.

Frank Diedrich

Frank Diedrich is a physicist who led the 1989 NIST experiment first cooling a single trapped atom to the lowest vibrational state allowed by quantum mechanics.

Frans Michel Penning

Frans Michel Penning (1894–1953) was a Dutch physicist at the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven known for Penning ionization, the Penning vacuum gauge, and the Penning trap.

Fred Cummings

Frederick Williams Cummings (1931–2019) was an American theoretical physicist who co-created the Jaynes–Cummings model, a 1963 cornerstone of quantum optics, and taught at UC Riverside.

Frederick Albert Saunders

Frederick Albert Saunders was an American physicist who taught introductory physics at Harvard from 1919 to 1941, co-developed the Russell–Saunders atomic coupling, and became a leading researcher of violin acoustics.

Frederick Sumner Brackett

Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896–1988) was an American physicist who discovered the infrared hydrogen lines called the Brackett series in 1922 and later developed spectroscopic methods at the National Institutes of Health.

Friedrich Hund

Friedrich Hund (1896–1997) was a German theoretical physicist who formulated Hund's rules for electron configurations, developed molecular orbital theory alongside Robert Mulliken, and discovered the quantum tunnel effect.

Friedrich Paschen

Friedrich Paschen (Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen, 1865–1947) was a German physicist who discovered the Paschen series, formulated Paschen's law, and led the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt from 1924 to 1933.