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Eun-Ah Kim

Eun-Ah Kim (김은아) is a South Korean-born condensed matter physicist and Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics at Cornell University who applies machine learning to quantum materials.

Eva Andrei

Eva Y. Andrei is a Romanian-born American experimental condensed-matter physicist at Rutgers University, known for observing Landau levels and the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene.

Evelyn Hu

Evelyn Hu is an American applied physicist and electrical engineer, the Tarr-Coyne Professor at Harvard, known for nanofabrication and quantum photonics research and elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Evgeny Lifshitz

Evgeny Lifshitz (Евгений Михайлович Лифшиц; 1915–1985) was a Soviet theoretical physicist who co-created the Course of Theoretical Physics with Lev Landau and developed Lifshitz theory of molecular forces.

Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Evgeny Y. Tsymbal is a computational materials physicist and professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who uses first-principles calculations to predict electronic, magnetic, and ferroelectric properties of nanoscale structures.

Ewine van Dishoeck

Ewine van Dishoeck is a Dutch molecular astrophysicist and astrochemist, professor at Leiden Observatory since 1995, who won the 2018 Kavli Prize for studying water and organic molecules in star- and planet-forming clouds.

Ewold Verhagen

Ewold Verhagen (born 1980) is a Dutch experimental physicist in cavity optomechanics who leads the Photonic Forces group at AMOLF and is a part-time professor at Eindhoven University of Technology.

F. Duncan M. Haldane

F. Duncan M. Haldane, also known as Duncan Haldane, is a British-born condensed matter physicist at Princeton who won a share of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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.

F. Javier Garcı́a de Abajo

F. Javier García de Abajo (Francisco Javier García de Abajo), born 1964, is a Spanish theoretical physicist in nanophotonics and an ICREA Research Professor at ICFO in Barcelona.

Fabian Walter

Fabian Walter is a radio and submillimeter astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, known for detecting molecular gas in the earliest quasars.

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.

Fabiola Gianotti

Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian experimental particle physicist who led the ATLAS experiment when it discovered the Higgs boson in 2012 and served as CERN's Director-General.

Fabrizio Barone

Fabrizio Barone is an Italian physicist and full professor at the University of Salerno, a proponent of the VIRGO gravitational-wave interferometer and the Einstein Telescope.

Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi

Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi, born 1989 in Kuwait, is a Danish nanophysicist known for nanosensors that detect bacterial communication in patient samples in 30 seconds, and for founding the diagnostics start-up PreDiagnose.

Fausto Acernese

Fausto Acernese, born in Avellino, Italy, in 1975, is an Italian experimental physicist and associate professor at the University of Salerno working on Virgo gravitational-wave detection.

Federico Capasso

Federico Capasso is an Italian-born American applied physicist at Harvard who invented the quantum cascade laser at Bell Labs and leads metasurface flat optics research.

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.

Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch (1905–1983) was a Swiss-born American physicist at Stanford University who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in bulk matter.

Felix Boehm

Felix Boehm (1924–2021) was a Swiss-born experimental nuclear and particle physicist who spent his career at Caltech and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.

Felix Deschler

Felix Deschler (Félix Deschler) is a physical chemist studying ultrafast spectroscopy of hybrid perovskites, known for photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and Full Professor at Heidelberg University since 2022.

Felix Ehrenhaft

Felix Ehrenhaft (1879–1952) was an Austrian experimental physicist at the University of Vienna known for discovering photophoresis in 1918 and for his long dispute with Robert Millikan over indivisible electric charge.

Felix Paul Kapron

Felix Paul Kapron is a physicist at Corning Glass Works, first author of the 1970 paper reporting the first optical fiber with loss below 20 dB/km.

Felix Pirani

Felix Pirani was a British mathematical physicist who helped establish that gravitational waves are a real, observable prediction of general relativity while working at King's College London.

Félix Tisserand

Félix Tisserand (1845–1896) was a French astronomer and celestial mechanician, director of the Paris Observatory, author of the Traité de mécanique céleste, and origin of the Tisserand parameter.

Felix Villars

Felix Villars (1921–2002) was a Swiss-born American theoretical physicist, on the MIT faculty for 41 years, best known for Pauli–Villars regularization with Wolfgang Pauli and for founding biological physics at MIT.

Felix von Oppen

Felix von Oppen (born 1966 in Berlin) is a German theoretical physicist, professor at Freie Universität Berlin, known for Majorana bound states in quantum wires and helical Shiba chains.

Felix Weinberg

Felix Jiri Weinberg (1928–2012) was a British combustion physicist who spent his career at Imperial College London, pioneering optical flame diagnostics, electric-field combustion control, and the heat-recirculating burner.

Feng Wang

Feng Wang is a condensed matter physicist, professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for laser spectroscopy of graphene and two-dimensional materials.

Ferdinand Brickwedde

Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde (1903–1989) was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards who co-discovered deuterium in 1932 by concentrating heavy hydrogen through low-temperature distillation of liquid hydrogen.