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Guillermo Haro
Guillermo Haro was a Mexican astronomer who co-discovered the Herbig–Haro nebulae, found the first flare stars in the Orion nebula, cataloged thousands of blue stars, and founded INAOE in 1971.
Guinevere Kauffmann
Guinevere Kauffmann is an astrophysicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, known for galaxy formation models and Sloan Digital Sky Survey analyses.
Gunnar Nordström
Gunnar Nordström (1881–1923) was a Finnish theoretical physicist who wrote the first metric theory of gravitation, a scalar rival to general relativity, and independently found the Reissner–Nordström metric for a charged mass.
Günter Reiter
Günter Reiter, born 1960 in Wels, Austria, is an experimental polymer physicist and professor at the University of Freiburg, known for dewetting and polymer crystallization research.
Gustaf Dalén
Nils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish engineer and inventor who won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics for automatic valves for lighthouses and led the gas company AGA.
Gustaf Ising
Gustaf Adolf Ising (1883–1960) was a Swedish physicist and geophysicist whose 1924 multiple-acceleration principle underlies the linear accelerator and, indirectly, the cyclotron; Ernest Lawrence called him the father of multiple acceleration.
Gustav Hertz
Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck for experiments confirming discrete atomic energy levels.
Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824 to 1887) was a German physicist whose circuit laws govern electrical networks, and who with Robert Bunsen founded spectrum analysis and discovered caesium and rubidium.
Gustav Mie
Gustav Mie was a German physicist who in 1908 published the exact solution for light scattering by spheres, taught at Greifswald, Halle, and Freiburg, and retired in 1935.
Gwan-Hyoung Lee
Gwan-Hyoung Lee (이관형) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for research on 2D materials such as graphene, including the 2025 hypotaxy growth method.
Gwendal Feve
Gwendal Fève, born 1978, is a French condensed-matter physicist, professor at Sorbonne Université, known for founding electron quantum optics and the 2020 anyon statistics experiments.
H. David Politzer
H. David Politzer, born 1949, is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom.
H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley, born 1941 in Oklahoma City, is an American physicist at Boston University known for critical phenomena, the physics of water, and founding econophysics.
H. Jay Melosh
H. Jay Melosh (1947–2020) was an American planetary scientist known for impact cratering physics and acoustic fluidization, a Purdue professor and author of the 1989 monograph Impact Cratering.
H. Jeff Kimble
H. Jeff Kimble, full name Harry Jeffrey Kimble (1949–2024), was an American experimental physicist at Caltech who pioneered cavity quantum electrodynamics and helped found quantum information science.
Hadas Shtrikman
Hadas Shtrikman is a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for the first electronic Mach–Zehnder interferometer and superconductor vortex-matter experiments.
Haimin Wang
Haimin Wang is a solar physicist, Distinguished Professor of Physics at NJIT, and director of its space weather research centers, known for showing that solar flares visibly rotate the Sun's surface magnetic fields.
Hajime Tanaka
Hajime Tanaka (田中 肇) is a Japanese soft matter and liquid physicist known for viscoelastic phase separation, water's anomalies, and the glass transition, and a University of Tokyo professor.
Hal Tasaki
Hal Tasaki (田﨑 晴明), born 1959, is a Japanese mathematical condensed-matter physicist at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, co-inventor of the AKLT chain that rigorously established the Haldane gap.
Hale Telescope
The Hale Telescope, also known as the Hale reflector, is a 200-inch (5.1-meter) reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, owned and operated by Caltech.
Hamish Robertson
R. G. Hamish Robertson (born 1943) is a Canadian-born nuclear and neutrino physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Washington, known for the Los Alamos tritium experiments, SNO, and KATRIN.
Han Htoon
Han Htoon is a Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist and Thrust Leader for Nanophotonics at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, studying single-photon emitters in nanoscale materials.
Han Woong Yeom
Han Woong Yeom is a South Korean condensed matter physicist at POSTECH who studies atomic wires and directs an Institute for Basic Science center since 2013.
Handong Sun
Handong Sun is a physicist working in optoelectronics and semiconductor optics, known for lasing from colloidal perovskite nanocrystals and semiconductor microlasers, and elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016.
Hanna M. Mahmoud
Hanna M. Mahmoud is a physicist credited in the 2015 Nobel Prize background as co-author, with Emil Konopinski, of the 1953 lepton-number postulate at Indiana University.
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (1908–1995) was a Swedish plasma physicist who founded magnetohydrodynamics, predicted the Alfvén wave in 1942, and won a share of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, born 1967, is a German experimental physicist and full professor at the University of Innsbruck known for ultracold atoms, molecules, and quantum many-body physics.
Hans Bethe
Hans Bethe, also known as Hans Albrecht Bethe, was a German-American nuclear physicist who explained how stars produce energy and won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Hans Busch
Hans Busch (1884–1973) was a German physicist who founded electron optics, showing in 1927 that a magnetic coil acts on electrons as a lens, enabling the electron microscope.
Hans Ferdinand Mayer
Hans Ferdinand Mayer was a German physicist and Siemens engineer who anonymously passed the 1939 Oslo Report on German military research to British intelligence, revealed in 1989.