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Ferdinand Ellerman
Ferdinand Ellerman (1869–1940) was an American astronomer, Hale's solar assistant and a Mount Wilson founding staff member, known for the solar brightenings called Ellerman bombs.
Ferdinand Kurlbaum
Ferdinand Kurlbaum (1857–1927) was a German experimental physicist at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt whose blackbody radiation measurements, including work with Heinrich Rubens, gave Planck the experimental foundation for quantum theory in 1900.
Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, born 1962 in Bonn, is a German experimental physicist working on trapped-ion quantum computing who led the 2003 realization of the Cirac–Zoller controlled-NOT gate and heads the QUANTUM section at Mainz.
Fernando Martín
Fernando Martín García, born in Madrid in 1961, is a Spanish theoretical physicist at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid known for founding theoretical attochemistry.
Fernando Sanford
Fernando Sanford was an American physicist who headed Stanford's physics department from its 1891 founding until 1919 and is remembered for his early electric photography work.
Filippo Radicchi
Filippo Radicchi, born in Rome in 1978, is an Italian-born network scientist and Professor of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, known for his 2008 community detection benchmark.
Fiona A. Harrison
Fiona A. Harrison is an experimental astrophysicist at Caltech who leads NASA's NuSTAR mission, the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit, launched in 2012.
Florian Müller‐Plathe
Florian Müller-Plathe is a German theoretical physical chemist and professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt, known for reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics for transport coefficients and Iterative Boltzmann Inversion for coarse-graining polymer models.
Floyd Firestone
Floyd Firestone was an American acoustical physicist at the University of Michigan who invented the supersonic reflectoscope, a pulse-echo ultrasonic flaw detector, and edited the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Floyd K. Richtmyer
Floyd K. Richtmyer (1881–1939) was an American physicist and X-ray spectroscopist who spent his career at Cornell University, led its Graduate School, and wrote the influential textbook Introduction to Modern Physics.
Forest Ray Moulton
Forest Ray Moulton (1872–1952) was an American theoretical astronomer and celestial mechanician who co-developed the planetesimal hypothesis of the solar system's origin with geologist Thomas Chamberlin.
Fran Bagenal
Fran Bagenal is a British-born American planetary scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the magnetospheres of the outer planets and worked on the Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, and Juno missions.
France A. Córdova
France A. Córdova is an American astrophysicist known for discovering soft X-ray pulsations from cataclysmic variable stars, who led the National Science Foundation from 2014 to 2020.
Francesco Calogero
Francesco Calogero (1935–2026) was an Italian theoretical physicist at Sapienza University of Rome, known for the exactly solvable Calogero–Moser system and for serving as Pugwash Secretary General.
Francesco Giazotto
Francesco Giazotto is an Italian condensed matter physicist and research director at CNR Nanoscienze in Pisa, known for the first Josephson heat interferometer and phase battery.
Francesco Mauri
Francesco Mauri is an Italian theoretical solid-state physicist, professor at Sapienza University of Rome, known for first-principles materials methods and theories of NMR and Raman spectroscopy in solids.
Francesco Sciortino
Francesco Sciortino, born 1960, is an Italian computational physicist and full professor at Sapienza University of Rome, known for work on water's liquid-liquid critical point and patchy colloids.
Francesco Zamponi
Francesco Zamponi, born 1979 in Rome, is an Italian theoretical physicist known for the mean-field theory of hard-sphere glasses and jamming, and a CNRS Research Director at LPTENS in Paris.
Francis Bitter
Francis Bitter (1902–1967) was an American physicist at MIT whose stacked-plate electromagnet became the standard for intense magnetic fields; MIT's magnet lab bears his name.
Francis E. Low
Francis E. Low (1921–2007) was an American theoretical physicist who worked on quantum electrodynamics at MIT, proved the 1958 soft-photon theorem, and served as provost from 1980 to 1985.
Francis Farley
Francis James Macdonald Farley (1920–2018) was a British experimental physicist who took part in the first four muon g-2 experiments at CERN and Brookhaven, winning the 1980 Hughes Medal.
Francis Graham-Smith
Sir Francis Graham-Smith (1923–2025) was a British radio astronomer who identified cosmic radio sources, researched pulsars, and served as the 13th Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990.
Francis Halzen
Francis Halzen, born 1944 in Belgium, is a physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who conceived and led the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole.
Francis M. McCubbin
Francis M. McCubbin is a planetary scientist and cosmochemist who serves as NASA's Astromaterials Curator at Johnson Space Center, studying water and volatiles in the inner solar system.
Francis Nimmo
Francis Nimmo is a British-born planetary geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for work on the interiors of Pluto, Enceladus, and the Moon.
Francis Simon
Francis Simon, born Franz Eugen Simon, was a German-British low-temperature physicist who invented a cheap helium liquefier and led British uranium isotope separation during World War II.
Francis Wheeler Loomis
Francis Wheeler Loomis was an American physicist who discovered the isotope effect in molecular spectra in 1920 and headed the University of Illinois physics department from 1929 to 1957.
Francisco de la Cruz
Francisco de la Cruz, born in Barcelona in 1938, is an Argentine condensed-matter physicist at the Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, known for research on superconductors and magnetic vortices.
Francisco Guinea
Francisco Guinea López, born in Madrid in 1953, is a Spanish theoretical condensed matter physicist at IMDEA Nanociencia known for his work on graphene and strain engineering.
Franck Vernerey
Franck Vernerey is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies soft and biological matter and received a Presidential Early Career Award.