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Friedrich Kremer
Friedrich Kremer is a German physicist and professor of molecular physics at Universität Leipzig from 1993 to 2015, known for broadband dielectric spectroscopy of polymers and soft matter.
Friedrich Paschen
Friedrich Paschen (Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen, 1865–1947) was a German physicist who discovered the Paschen series, formulated Paschen's law, and led the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt from 1924 to 1933.
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799–1875) was a German astronomer and director of the Bonn Observatory, best known for the Bonner Durchmusterung, a survey of 324,198 stars.
Frits Zernike
Frits Zernike (1888–1966) was a Dutch physicist at the University of Groningen who won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics for the phase contrast microscope.
Fritz Goos
Fritz Goos was a German physicist at the National Physical Institute in Hamburg who, with Hilda Hänchen, first demonstrated the Goos–Hänchen effect, a small lateral shift of light under total internal reflection, in 1947.
Fritz London
Fritz Wolfgang London (1900–1954) was a German-American theoretical physicist who founded quantum chemistry with Walter Heitler in 1927 and, with his brother Heinz, wrote the first theory of superconductivity.
Fritz Zwicky
Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974) was a Swiss astronomer at Caltech who inferred dark matter in the Coma cluster in 1933 and co-predicted neutron stars with Walter Baade.
Fujita Akimi
Fujita Akimi (藤田 あき美) is a Japanese astrophysicist and lecturer at Shinshu University who earned a Ph.D. at Columbia and simulates starburst-driven winds and metal enrichment in dwarf galaxies.
Fumio Koyama
Fumio Koyama is a Japanese photonics researcher at the Institute of Science Tokyo known for the first continuous room-temperature operation of surface-emitting lasers, used in data centers and face recognition.
G. M. B. Dobson
G. M. B. Dobson, Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, was an English physicist at Oxford who built the Dobson spectrophotometer and the Dobson unit for measuring atmospheric ozone.
G. N. Ramachandran
Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran (1922–2001) was an Indian physicist and crystallographer who proposed the triple-helical structure of collagen and introduced the Ramachandran plot, still the standard tool for validating protein structures.
G. T. Ewan
G. T. Ewan, born George Ewan, was a Canadian nuclear physicist at Chalk River and Queen's University who pioneered germanium gamma-ray spectroscopy and co-founded the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
G. W. Pierce
G. W. Pierce, full name George Washington Pierce, was an American physicist at Harvard who invented the Pierce oscillator, fixing radio transmitter frequencies, and directed Cruft Laboratory from 1914.
Gabriel Aeppli
Gabriel Aeppli, born 1956, is a condensed matter physicist known for work on quantum magnetism, professor at ETH Zürich and head of Photon Science at the Paul Scherrer Institut.
Gabriel Kotliar
Gabriel Kotliar, born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1957, is a condensed matter theorist at Rutgers University known as a founding father of dynamical mean-field theory.
Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann, born in Hollerich, Luxembourg, in 1845, was a French physicist at the Sorbonne who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colors photographically based on interference.
Gabriel Perez-Giz
Gabriel Perez-Giz is an astrophysicist who studies black-hole orbital dynamics, was the first writer and host of PBS Space Time on YouTube, and teaches at NYU Tandon.
Gabriel Popescu (Romanian physicist)
Gabriel Popescu was a Romanian physicist who pioneered quantitative phase imaging, a label-free microscopy method, as a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign until his death in 2022.
Gabriela González
Gabriela González, born 1965 in Córdoba, Argentina, is a physicist at Louisiana State University who served as LIGO spokesperson from 2011 to 2017, during the first gravitational-wave detection.
Gabriele Veneziano
Gabriele Veneziano is a theoretical physicist whose 1968 amplitude, built from the Euler beta function, is usually regarded as marking the birth of string theory.
Ganesha Daivajna
Ganesha Daivajna (Gaṇeśa Daivajña, born 1507) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician of Nandigram whose Grahalaghava, an astronomical handbook with epoch 1520, is still used by almanac-makers.
Gang Ren
Gang Ren (任罡) is a Chinese electron microscopist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for determining the 3.7 Å structure of the AQP1 water channel.
Gareth Roberts (Welsh physicist)
Sir Gareth Roberts, Gareth Gwyn Roberts, was a Welsh physicist in semiconductor device physics who led the University of Sheffield and wrote the 2002 Roberts Review.
Garik Israelyan
Garik Israelyan, also published as Garik Israelian, is an Armenian astrophysicist at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, born in Yerevan in 1963.
Gary A. Steele
Gary A. Steele is a Canadian physicist, born in Toronto, who works on quantum nanoscience at Delft University of Technology, where he has been a full professor since 2018.
Gary Gibbons
Gary Gibbons is a British theoretical physicist at Cambridge known for the Euclidean approach to quantum gravity and, with Stephen Hawking, the 1977 discovery that cosmological horizons have temperature and entropy.
Gary Hinshaw
Gary Hinshaw is an American astrophysicist who led data analysis for NASA's WMAP mission, pinning down the universe's age and composition, and won the 2018 Breakthrough Prize.
Gary P. Wiederrecht
Gary P. Wiederrecht is an American nanoscientist at Argonne National Laboratory, director of its Center for Nanoscale Materials, who won a 1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Gary P. Zank
Gary P. Zank is an American space physicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who models the solar wind and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Gary S. Grest
Gary S. Grest is a computational physicist at Sandia National Laboratories whose molecular dynamics simulations of polymers, colloids, and granular media contributed to the bead-spring model, a standard in polymer simulation.