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

George Paget Thomson

George Paget Thomson (1892–1975) was a British physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering electron diffraction, and later chaired the MAUD atomic bomb committee.

George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900–1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist who proposed electron spin with Samuel Goudsmit in 1925, developed the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, and won the Wolf Prize.

Gerard J. Milburn

Gerard J. Milburn is an Australian theoretical physicist at the University of Queensland known for quantum measurement theory and the 2001 KLM scheme for optical quantum computing.

Gerard Meijer

Gerard Meijer (born 1962) is a Dutch atomic and molecular physicist at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin, known for Stark deceleration and electrostatic trapping of cold molecules.

Gerd Leuchs

Gerd Leuchs (born 1950) is a German experimental physicist in quantum optics and the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen.

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Gerhard Rempe

Gerhard Rempe, born 1956 in Bottrop, is a German physicist who pioneered cavity quantum electrodynamics with single atoms and led the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics from 1999.

Gershon Kurizki

Gershon Kurizki, born 1952, is an Israeli theoretical quantum physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for identifying the anti-Zeno effect and proposing minimal quantum heat machines.

Göran Lindblad (theoretical physicist)

Göran Lindblad (1940–2022) was a Swedish theoretical physicist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology who derived the Lindblad equation, the master equation for Markovian open quantum systems.

Gregory Fuchs

Gregory D. Fuchs is an American applied physicist, the James R. Meehl Professor at Cornell University, known for quantum sensing and spin control using defects in diamond, hBN, and GaN.

Gustav Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck for experiments confirming discrete atomic energy levels.

Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824 to 1887) was a German physicist whose circuit laws govern electrical networks, and who with Robert Bunsen founded spectrum analysis and discovered caesium and rubidium.

H. Jeff Kimble

H. Jeff Kimble, full name Harry Jeffrey Kimble (1949–2024), was an American experimental physicist at Caltech who pioneered cavity quantum electrodynamics and helped found quantum information science.

Han Htoon

Han Htoon is a Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist and Thrust Leader for Nanophotonics at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, studying single-photon emitters in nanoscale materials.

Hanns-Christoph Nägerl

Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, born 1967, is a German experimental physicist and full professor at the University of Innsbruck known for ultracold atoms, molecules, and quantum many-body physics.

Hans Georg Dehmelt

Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German-American physicist at the University of Washington who developed the Penning trap and shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Sep 20, 2026

Hans Jakob Wörner

Hans Jakob Wörner is a Swiss-based physicist and physical chemist, a full professor at ETH Zurich known for attosecond spectroscopy of molecules and liquids and attosecond control of chiral photoionization.

Harald R. Telle

Harald R. Telle is a German physicist at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig who helped build optical interval dividers and proposed self-referencing for frequency combs in 1999.

Harrie Massey

Harrie Massey, full name Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, was an Australian-born mathematical physicist who built atomic collision theory in Britain and led its early space program.

Heinrich Kayser

Heinrich Kayser (Johann Heinrich Gustav Kayser; 1853–1940) was a German physicist who, with Carl Runge, mapped the spectra of many elements and established the laws of spectral series.

Henk Dorgelo

Hendrik Berend (Henk) Dorgelo (1894–1961) was a Dutch physicist who established the empirical intensity rules for multiplet spectral lines and, with Burger, the summation rule.

Henry Crew

Henry Crew (1859–1953) was an American physicist and spectroscopist, Fayerweather Professor of Physics at Northwestern University from 1892 to 1930, known for atomic spectroscopy and his 1914 translation of Galileo's Two New Sciences.

Henry Kapteyn

Henry C. Kapteyn is a physicist and JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for ultrafast laser technology and tabletop coherent X-ray sources built by high-harmonic generation.

Henry M. Foley

Henry Michael Foley (1917–1982) was an American experimental physicist and Columbia University professor whose 1947 measurements of the electron's magnetic moment with Polykarp Kusch helped confirm quantum electrodynamics.

Herbert Walther

Herbert Walther (1935–2006) was a German physicist whose one-atom maser, the micromaser, was a milestone of cavity quantum electrodynamics and a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.

Herbert Zeiger

Herbert Zeiger was an American physicist trained under Isidor Rabi at Columbia who co-authored the 1954 ammonia maser paper and shared the inaugural Charles Hard Townes Award in 1981.

Hermann Haken

Hermann Haken (1927–2024) was a German theoretical physicist at the University of Stuttgart who formulated the quantum theory of the laser and founded synergetics, the theory of self-organization.

Sep 20, 2026

Herschel Rabitz

Herschel Rabitz is a chemical physicist at Princeton University, a professor of chemistry since 1971, known for inventing the learning-algorithm approach to coherent control of quantum phenomena.

Hidetoshi Katori

Hidetoshi Katori (香取秀俊, born 1964) is a Japanese physicist at the University of Tokyo who invented the optical lattice clock, accurate to one second in 30 billion years.

Hoi-Kwong Lo

Hoi-Kwong Lo is a quantum information scientist and professor at the University of Toronto known for QKD security proofs, the decoy-state method, and co-inventing MDI-QKD in 2012.