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Alexei Filippenko
Alexei Filippenko is an astronomer and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies supernovae and black holes and helped discover the accelerating expansion of the Universe in 1998.
Alexei Fridman
Alexei Fridman, also known as Alexei Maksimovich Fridman, was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist, 1940 to 2010, who developed hydrodynamic theories of galactic spiral structure and planetary rings.
Alexei Gruverman
Alexei Gruverman is an American-based physicist and professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln known for pioneering piezoresponse force microscopy, a scanning probe method for imaging ferroelectric domains.
Alexei L. Efros
Alexei L. Efros is a theoretical physicist who formulated the Efros–Shklovskii Coulomb gap theory at the Ioffe Institute in 1975 and wrote the first theory of semiconductor quantum dots in 1982.
Alexei Starobinski
Alexei Starobinski (Алексей Александрович Старобинский) was a Russian theoretical physicist at the Landau Institute who published the first working model of cosmic inflation in 1980, sharing the 2014 Kavli Prize.
Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov
Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov (Алексей Юрьевич Смирнов) is a Russian neutrino physicist who, with Stanislav Mikheyev, developed the MSW effect that solved the solar neutrino problem.
Alexey Gorshkov
Alexey V. Gorshkov is an American theoretical physicist at NIST and a Fellow of QuICS and the Joint Quantum Institute, known for quantum simulation, many-body dynamics, and a 2019 PECASE award.
Alexey Karpenkov
Alexey Karpenkov (Алексей Юрьевич Карпенков) is a Russian physicist who heads the Condensed Matter Physics Department at Tver State University, known for research on the magnetocaloric effect and magnetic refrigeration.
Alexey Kimel
Alexey Kimel (A. V. Kimel) is a condensed-matter physicist and full professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for all-optical magnetic recording with femtosecond laser pulses.
Alfons van Blaaderen
Alfons van Blaaderen (born 1963) is a Dutch physicist, professor at Utrecht University since 1999, known for pioneering research on colloidal particles and their self-assembly into structured materials.
Alfred Fowler
Alfred Fowler (1868–1940) was a British astrophysicist and spectroscopist who spent his career at Imperial College London, identifying the chemistry of cool stars and sunspots.
Alfred Gordon Gaydon
Alfred Gordon Gaydon (1911–2004) was a British experimental spectroscopist who measured flame and shock-wave temperatures by the spectrum-line reversal method and was elected F.R.S. in 1953.
Alfred Harrison Joy
Alfred Harrison Joy (1882–1973) was an American stellar astronomer and spectroscopist at Mount Wilson Observatory, known for spectroscopic parallaxes, Cepheid radial velocities, and the T Tauri classification of young variable stars.
Alfred Kastler
Alfred Kastler was a French physicist at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics for optical methods of studying atomic resonances.
Alfred Landé
Alfred Landé (1888–1975) was a German-born American physicist who played a pivotal role in early quantum theory, best known for the Landé g-factor, the interval rule, and his prescient pre-spin interpretation of the Stern–Gerlach experiment.
Alfred Lee Loomis
Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975) was an American physicist and investment banker who ran a private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, New York, headed wartime US radar research, and invented LORAN.
Alfred Leitenstorfer
Alfred Leitenstorfer is a German physicist who has been Full Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Konstanz since 2003, working in ultrafast photonics and field-resolved quantum optics.
Alfred Marshall Mayer
Alfred Marshall Mayer (1836–1897) was an American physicist who led the physics department at Stevens Institute of Technology and was known for acoustics and his 1878 floating-magnets experiment, a model of atomic arrangement.
Alfred Otto Carl Nier
Alfred Otto Carl Nier (1911–1994) was an American physicist at the University of Minnesota whose mass spectrometers measured isotopic abundances and enabled the first separation of uranium-235.
Alfred Perot
Alfred Perot (1863–1925) was a French physicist and astronomer who, with Charles Fabry, invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer and helped determine the meter in terms of the wavelength of light.
Ali Adibi
Ali Adibi is a photonics researcher and Joseph M. Pettit chair professor at Georgia Tech, a 2005 PECASE recipient known for high-Q microresonators, chip-scale spectrometers, and tunable metasurfaces.
Ali Javan
Ali Javan (1926–2016) was an Iranian-American physicist who co-invented the helium-neon gas laser at Bell Labs in 1960, the first laser to produce a continuous beam of light.
Ali Yazdani
Ali Yazdani is an Iranian-American condensed matter physicist at Princeton University who uses high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy to visualize electronic wavefunctions in topological and correlated quantum materials, and won the 2023 Buckley Prize.
Alicia Magdalena Sintes
Alicia Magdalena Sintes Olives is a Spanish gravitational-wave physicist, full professor of Theoretical Physics at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and a LIGO Scientific Collaboration member since 1997.
Alipasha Vaziri
Alipasha Vaziri is an Iranian-born physicist and neuroscientist who heads the Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University, developing microscopes that record neuronal activity.
Alireza Marandi
Alireza Marandi is a professor of electrical engineering and applied physics at the California Institute of Technology, known for nanophotonic parametric oscillators, coherent Ising machines, and ultrafast lithium niobate lasers.
Allan Adams
Allan Adams is a theoretical physicist at MIT known for applying holographic duality to strongly interacting quantum fluids and for his widely viewed MIT quantum mechanics lectures.
Allan MacDonald
Allan MacDonald is a Canadian condensed matter theorist at the University of Texas at Austin whose 2011 calculation predicting superconductivity at a magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene founded twistronics.
Allan Peter Young
Allan Peter Young, born 1948, is a British theoretical condensed-matter physicist at UC Santa Cruz known for Monte Carlo studies of spin glasses and disordered systems.
Allan Sandage
Allan Sandage (1926–2010) was an American astronomer at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena who defined observational cosmology and produced the first reliable size and age of the universe.