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Bill Sutherland (theoretical physicist)
Bill Sutherland is an American theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Utah, known for exactly solvable quantum many-body models and a 2019 Heineman Prize.
Binghai Yan
Binghai Yan is a Chinese condensed matter physicist known for identifying the Weyl semimetal compounds TaAs and NbP and their extremely large magnetoresistance; he joined Penn State in 2025.
Boaz Almog
Boaz Almog is an Israeli physicist at Tel Aviv University known for the 2011 quantum levitation demonstration of a superconducting disk floating over a magnetic track.
Bogdan Andrei Bernevig
Bogdan Andrei Bernevig, also published as B. Andrei Bernevig, is a Princeton condensed matter theorist known for predicting the quantum spin Hall effect and classifying topological materials.
Boris Altshuler
Boris Altshuler, born 1955 in Leningrad, is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and Columbia University professor known for the Altshuler-Aronov corrections, universal conductance fluctuations, and many-body localization.
Boris Shklovskii
Boris Shklovskii (Шкловский Борис Ионович), born 1944, is a condensed-matter physicist at the University of Minnesota, best known for the Coulomb gap and the Efros–Shklovskii hopping law.
Boris Svistunov
Boris Svistunov, born in 1959, is a condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for work on superfluidity, supersolidity, and the worm algorithm.
Börje Johansson
Börje Johansson, born in 1943, is a Swedish condensed matter physicist known for his theory of rare-earth and actinide elements and for high-pressure geophysics, including his 2003 Nature paper on iron in the Earth's inner core.
Brebis Bleaney
Brebis Bleaney (1915–2006) was a British experimental physicist who independently invented electron paramagnetic resonance at Oxford and led the Clarendon Laboratory from 1957 to 1977.
Brian D. Josephson
Brian D. Josephson, also known as Brian David Josephson, is a Welsh-born British theoretical physicist who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the Josephson effect.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard, also known as Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, was a British physicist who first mapped a Fermi surface and introduced the superconducting coherence length in 1953.
Cao Zexian
Cao Zexian (曹则贤, born 1966) is a Chinese condensed-matter physicist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for multi-hour cross-year lectures and for correcting Chinese physics terminology.
Carl Hermann
Carl Hermann (1898–1961) was a German physicist and crystallographer who co-created the Hermann–Mauguin notation for the 230 space groups, edited the Strukturbericht, and was honored as Righteous Among the Nations.
Chang C. Tsuei
Chang C. Tsuei (崔章琪) is a Chinese-American condensed-matter physicist who spent his career at IBM's Watson Research Center and won the 1998 Buckley Prize for tricrystal experiments establishing d-wave pairing in cuprate superconductors.
Charles Ahn
Charles H. Ahn, also published as C. H. Ahn, is an applied physicist at Yale University who studies complex oxide thin films and electronic control of superconductivity and ferroelectricity.
Charles F. Majkrzak
Charles F. Majkrzak is an American neutron scattering physicist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research who led a 1986 measurement cited in the 2007 Nobel Prize background.
Charles Galton Darwin
Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962) was a British theoretical physicist, grandson of Charles Darwin, who pioneered the dynamical theory of X-ray diffraction and directed the National Physical Laboratory.
Charles Kittel
Charles Kittel (1916–2019) was an American solid-state physicist, a professor at UC Berkeley from 1951, known for the RKKY interaction and the textbook Introduction to Solid State Physics.
Charles L. Kane
Charles L. Kane (born 1963) is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Pennsylvania who, with Eugene Mele, proposed the quantum spin Hall effect in 2005, founding the theory of topological insulators.
Charles M. Marcus
Charles M. Marcus, born 1962, is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Washington known for work on quantum Hall effects, spin qubits, and Majorana modes.
Charles P. Bean
Charles P. Bean, also known as Charles Palmer Bean, was an American physicist at General Electric known for the Bean critical-state model of type-II superconductors and for work in magnetism.
Charles Pence Slichter
Charles Pence Slichter (1924–2018) was an American physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who pioneered nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and became a leading expert on superconductivity.
Chih-Kang Shih
Chih-Kang Shih, known as Ken Shih, is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Texas at Austin who images moiré materials with scanning tunneling microscopy.
Christian Degen
Christian L. Degen (born 1976) is a Swiss physicist and full professor of physics at ETH Zurich, best known for scanning magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and nanoscale MRI.
Christian Glattli
Christian Glattli (born 1954) is a French physicist and Research Director at the CEA, known for pioneering electron quantum optics and shot-noise experiments showing fractional e/3 quasiparticle charge.
Christian Pfleiderer
Christian Pfleiderer (born 1965) is an experimental solid-state physicist at the Technical University of Munich, known for discovering the skyrmion lattice phase in the chiral magnet MnSi.
Chu Ching-wu
Chu Ching-wu, known as Paul Chu, is an experimental physicist at the University of Houston who in 1987 discovered superconductivity at 93 K in a yttrium-barium-copper-oxygen compound, the first above liquid nitrogen's boiling point.
Chun Ning Lau
Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau is a condensed matter experimental physicist and Ohio State professor known for graphene research, including a 2008 paper measuring single-layer graphene's thermal conductivity.
Claus Ropers
Claus Ropers, born 1977 in Stade, is a German physicist known for ultrafast electron microscopy, a professor at Göttingen and director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Clifford G. Shull
Clifford G. Shull, also known as Clifford Shull, was an American physicist at MIT who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the neutron diffraction technique.