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Bruno Pontecorvo
Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993) was an Italian nuclear physicist and student of Enrico Fermi who first proposed neutrino oscillations and defected to the Soviet Union in 1950.
Bruno Zumino
Bruno Zumino (1923–2014) was an Italian-born theoretical physicist who co-discovered four-dimensional supersymmetry with Julius Wess in 1974 and formulated supergravity with Stanley Deser, later teaching at UC Berkeley.
Bryan Webber
Bryan Ronald Webber is a British theoretical physicist at the University of Cambridge, best known as co-founder of the Herwig event generator used to simulate particle collisions.
Bryce DeWitt
Bryce DeWitt, born Carl Bryce Seligman, was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Texas at Austin known for the Wheeler–DeWitt equation of quantum gravity.
C. R. Hagen
Carl Richard Hagen is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Rochester who co-authored one of the three 1964 papers establishing the Higgs mechanism.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker was a German theoretical physicist and philosopher who co-formulated the nuclear mass formula, worked on Germany's wartime uranium project, and initiated the 1957 Göttingen Declaration.
Carl M. Bender
Carl M. Bender, born 1943, is a mathematical physicist at Washington University in St. Louis who developed PT-symmetric quantum theory and co-authored the textbook Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers.
Carlo Becchi
Carlo Maria Becchi was an Italian theoretical physicist at the University of Genoa who co-discovered BRST symmetry, foundational to gauge theory proofs, winning the 2009 Heineman Prize.
Cecilia Jarlskog
Cecilia Jarlskog is a Swedish theoretical particle physicist, professor emerita at Lund University, best known for the Jarlskog invariant, a convention-independent measure of CP violation in quark mixing.
Charles Thorn
Charles Thorn, also known as Charles B. Thorn III, is an American theoretical physicist who co-proved the Goddard–Thorn no-ghost theorem and spent four decades at the University of Florida.
Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang, also known as Frank Yang (杨振宁), was a Chinese-born theoretical physicist who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize for discovering parity violation in weak interactions.
Chris Hull
Chris Hull, or Christopher M. Hull, is a theoretical physicist holding the Chair in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, known for supergravity and string duality work.
Christian W. Bauer
Christian W. Bauer is a theoretical physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who heads its Theory Group and leads efforts to simulate particle physics on quantum computers.
Christopher Isham
Christopher Isham is a British theoretical physicist, long based at Imperial College London, known for the history-projection-operator formalism and the topos-theoretic reformulation of quantum theory.
Christopher Llewellyn Smith
Christopher Llewellyn Smith (born 1942) is a British theoretical particle physicist whose work helped establish the reality of quarks and gluons, and who led CERN from 1994 to 1998.
Claudio Bunster
Claudio Bunster, known as Claudio Teitelboim until 2005, is a Chilean theoretical physicist working on general relativity and gauge theories who founded Chile's Centro de Estudios Científicos in 1984.
Cumrun Vafa (کامران وفا)
Cumrun Vafa (کامران وفا), also known as Kamran Vafa, is an Iranian-born theoretical physicist at Harvard who works on string theory, black hole entropy, and the swampland program.
Curtis Callan
Curtis Callan is an American theoretical physicist, long at Princeton University, known for the Callan–Symanzik equation, the Callan–Gross relation, and statistical models of antibody diversity.
D.V. Nanopoulos
D.V. Nanopoulos (Δημήτριος Νανόπουλος), born 1948 in Athens, is a Greek particle physicist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University and Academy of Athens member, known for Higgs-boson phenomenology, supersymmetry, and string model building.
Đàm Thanh Sơn
Đàm Thanh Sơn is a Vietnamese-born theoretical physicist and University Professor at the University of Chicago, known for the KSS viscosity bound and the Dirac Medal in 2018.
Daniel Kastler
Daniel Kastler (1926–2015) was a French mathematical physicist, son of Nobel laureate Alfred Kastler, who co-founded algebraic quantum field theory with Rudolf Haag and later championed non-commutative geometry.
Daniel Z. Freedman
Daniel Z. Freedman is an American theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at MIT and visiting professor at Stanford, known for the 1976 discovery of supergravity and the 2019 Special Breakthrough Prize.
David B. Kaplan
David B. Kaplan, born 1958, is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Washington known for domain wall fermions, the composite Higgs, and asymmetric dark matter.
David J. Dean
David J. Dean is an American theoretical nuclear physicist known for quantum many-body methods, a 1997 PECASE award, and the first quantum-computer calculation of a nucleus.
David J. Gross
David J. Gross, born 1941 in Washington, D.C., is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering asymptotic freedom in the strong interaction.
David Olive (British theoretical physicist)
David Ian Olive (1937–2012) was a British theoretical physicist at Cambridge, CERN, Imperial College, and Swansea, known for the GSO projection and the 1977 Montonen–Olive duality conjecture.
Davide Gaiotto
Davide Gaiotto is a theoretical and mathematical physicist holding the Krembil Galileo Galilei Chair at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, known for the AGT correspondence and generalized global symmetries.
Detlev Buchholz
Detlev Buchholz is a mathematical physicist known for rigorous, model-independent results in algebraic quantum field theory, including the Buchholz–Wichmann nuclearity condition, massless scattering theory, and particle weights.
E. C. George Sudarshan
E. C. George Sudarshan (Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, 1931–2018) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to weak interactions, quantum optics, and the quantum Zeno effect.
Edward Teller
Edward Teller (Teller Ede) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who played the central role in developing the hydrogen bomb and co-created the Teller–Ulam design.