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William A. Bardeen
William A. Bardeen (1941–2025) was an American theoretical physicist who spent his career at Fermilab and was known for foundational work on the chiral anomaly and the Adler–Bardeen theorem.
William Rarita
William Rarita was an American theoretical physicist who, with Julian Schwinger, formulated the 1941 Rarita–Schwinger equation for spin-3/2 particles and later worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
Wolfhart Zimmermann
Wolfhart Zimmermann (1928–2016) was a German theoretical physicist who co-developed the LSZ reduction formula with Lehmann and Symanzik and created the forest formula, establishing the BPHZ renormalization scheme; he received the Max Planck Medal in 1991.
Yasushi Takahashi
Yasushi Takahashi (高橋 康) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who proved the generalized Ward identity, now the Ward–Takahashi identity, in a 1957 paper, and later taught at the University of Alberta.
Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu (南部陽一郎, 1921–2015) was a Japanese-born American theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago who won half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Zhou Guangzhao
Zhou Guangzhao (周光召) was a Chinese theoretical physicist known for the partially conserved axial-vector current and for leading the theoretical design of China's first atomic and hydrogen bombs.
Zvi Bern
Zvi Bern is an American theoretical physicist, professor at UCLA and founding director of the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute, known for the unitarity method and the double copy in quantum gravity.