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Franco Cacialli
Franco Cacialli is a physicist known for work on organic semiconductor devices including LEDs and photovoltaics, professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano since 2022, previously at University College London.
Franco Nori
Franco Nori is a theoretical physicist known for work on superconducting qubits and circuit QED, who led a lab at Japan's RIKEN while teaching at the University of Michigan.
François Englert
François Englert (1932–2026) was a Belgian theoretical physicist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Higgs.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett (1879–1949) was an American physicist who led engineering of the first transcontinental telephone line and became the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Frank Benford
Frank Benford (Frank Albert Benford Jr.) was an American electrical engineer and physicist at General Electric who in 1938 published Benford's Law, the logarithmic leading-digit distribution.
Frank C. van den Bosch
Frank C. van den Bosch is a Dutch astronomer, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale, known for work on dark matter haloes and the galaxy–dark matter connection.
Frank Cichos
Frank Cichos is a German experimental physicist and Professor for Molecular Nanophotonics at Leipzig University since 2006, known for thermophoretic trapping of single molecules and protein aggregates.
Frank Close
Frank Close is a British theoretical particle physicist who studied the strong force binding quarks, headed theory at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and wrote about 20 popular science books.
Frank Diedrich
Frank Diedrich is a physicist who led the 1989 NIST experiment first cooling a single trapped atom to the lowest vibrational state allowed by quantum mechanics.
Frank Drake
Frank Drake (1930–2022) was an American radio astronomer who founded the modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence, led Project Ozma in 1960, and wrote the Drake equation.
Frank Eisenhauer
Frank Eisenhauer is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics who built the instruments that proved the Milky Way's central black hole.
Frank Elmore Ross
Frank Elmore Ross (1874–1960) was an American astronomer and optical designer at Yerkes Observatory, known for proper-motion star lists, Ross variables, and the Ross corrector.
Frank Fang
Frank F. Fang (方复) is a condensed-matter physicist who spent 1960 to 1993 at IBM's Watson Research Center, pioneering two-dimensional quantum transport in silicon inversion layers.
Frank H. L. Koppens
Frank H. L. Koppens (Frank Koppens), born 1976, is a Dutch physicist who leads the Quantum Nano-Optoelectronics group at ICFO near Barcelona and studies graphene photonics.
Frank J. Low
Frank J. Low, born Francis James McFadden, was an American infrared astronomer who invented the germanium bolometer in 1961 and spent his career at the University of Arizona.
Frank J. Sciulli
Frank J. Sciulli is an experimental particle physicist at Columbia University's Nevis Laboratories, known for Fermilab neutrino experiments, CCFR nucleon structure measurements, and the ZEUS detector at DESY in Hamburg.
Frank J. Tipler
Frank J. Tipler (born 1947) is an American mathematical physicist at Tulane University known for work in general relativity and for The Physics of Immortality (1994), setting out his Omega Point theory.
Frank Jülicher
Frank Jülicher, born 1965, is a German biological physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, known for active matter theory.
Frank McClean
Frank McClean (1837–1904) was a British civil engineer who retired in 1870 and devoted his life to astronomical spectroscopy, inventing a widely used star spectroscope and surveying stellar spectra over the whole sky.
Frank N. von Hippel
Frank N. von Hippel is an American theoretical physicist who co-founded Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security and works on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation.
Frank Oppenheimer
Frank Oppenheimer (Frank Friedman Oppenheimer) was an American particle physicist, younger brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who worked on the Manhattan Project and founded the Exploratorium in 1969.
Frank Philip Bowden
Frank Philip Bowden (1903–1968) was an Australian physicist and physical chemist who founded the modern physical theory of friction and is counted a founder of tribology.
Frank Pollmann
Frank Pollmann is a theoretical condensed matter physicist, Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich since 2022, who works on topological phases of matter and quantum many-body simulation.
Frank Schlesinger
Frank Schlesinger (1871–1943) was an American astronomer, called the "Father of Modern Astrometry," who directed the Allegheny and Yale observatories and made photographic stellar parallax measurement routine.
Frank Shu
Frank Shu (徐遐生) was a Chinese-born American theoretical astrophysicist (1943–2023) who developed density wave theory of spiral galaxies and the inside-out model of star formation, winning the 2009 Shaw Prize.
Frank W. Wise
Frank W. Wise is an applied physicist and Cornell University professor emeritus known for ultrafast optics, fiber lasers, and quantum dots, including spatiotemporal mode-locking demonstrated in 2017.
Frank Watson Dyson
Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939) was an English astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal from 1910 to 1933 and organized the 1919 eclipse expeditions confirming Einstein's general relativity.
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek (born 1951) is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering asymptotic freedom, the basis of quantum chromodynamics.
Franklyn Quinlan
Franklyn Quinlan is an American physicist who leads the Precision Photonic Synthesis Group at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Frans Michel Penning
Frans Michel Penning (1894–1953) was a Dutch physicist at the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven known for Penning ionization, the Penning vacuum gauge, and the Penning trap.