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Igor Tyutin
Igor Viktorovich Tyutin (Игорь Тютин, 1940–2026) was a Russian theoretical physicist at the Lebedev Institute, the T in BRST quantization, developed independently in a 1975 preprint.
Igor Y. Tamm
Igor Y. Tamm (Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm, 1895 to 1971) was a Soviet theoretical physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for the Cherenkov effect.
Igor Žutić
Igor Žutić, also published as Igor Zutic, is a condensed-matter theorist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, best known for the 2004 review Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications.
Ihm Ji-soon
Jisoon Ihm is a South Korean theoretical condensed-matter physicist, known for the 1979 momentum-space formalism for the total energy of solids and for pioneering computational materials physics.
Il´ja M. Frank
Il´ja M. Frank, also known as Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank, was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for explaining the Cherenkov effect.
Ilya Lifshitz
Ilya Lifshitz (Илья Михайлович Лифшиц, 1917–1982) was a Soviet theoretical physicist in condensed matter who led theory departments in Kharkov and Moscow and gave his name to the Lifshitz–Kosevich formula, Lifshitz tails, and the Lifshitz transition.
Ilya Prigogine
Ilya Prigogine, born Ilya Romanovich Prigogin in Moscow in 1917, was a Belgian physical chemist who won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of dissipative structures.
Imke de Pater
Imke de Pater, born 1952, is a planetary scientist at UC Berkeley known for Jupiter's radio emission, the 1994 Shoemaker–Levy 9 campaign, and the textbook Planetary Sciences.
Immanuel Bloch
Immanuel Bloch (born 1972 in Fulda) is a German experimental physicist who leads quantum simulation with ultracold atoms at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.
Ioannis Iliopoulos
Ioannis (John) Iliopoulos, born 1940 in Kalamata, Greece, is a Greek theoretical physicist who co-invented the GIM mechanism, which introduced the charm quark into weak-interaction theory.
Iosif Shklovsky
Iosif Shklovsky (1916–1985) was a Soviet theoretical astrophysicist who explained the Crab Nebula's radiation as synchrotron emission and co-wrote Intelligent Life in the Universe with Carl Sagan.
Ira B. Bernstein
Ira B. Bernstein was an American theoretical plasma physicist at Yale who discovered the Bernstein wave and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984.
Ira S. Bowen
Ira S. Bowen was an American astrophysicist at Caltech who solved the nebulium mystery in 1927 and directed the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories from 1948 to 1964.
Irwin I. Shapiro
Irwin I. Shapiro is an astrophysicist, Timken University Professor Emeritus at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, known for predicting the Shapiro time delay in 1964.
Isaac F. Silvera
Isaac F. Silvera is a physicist and Thomas D. Cabot Professor at Harvard, known for stabilizing the first cold-atom gas and reporting the contested 2017 observation of metallic hydrogen.
Isaac Khalatnikov
Isaac Khalatnikov, or Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (1919–2021), was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, a student of Lev Landau, founding director of the Landau Institute, and co-discoverer of the Landau pole and the BKL singularity.
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English mathematician and physicist who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation in his Principia Mathematica of 1687.
Isaac Roberts
Isaac Roberts (1829–1904) was a Welsh-born builder and engineer who became a pioneer of long-exposure astrophotography, taking the first photograph to show the Andromeda Nebula as a spiral.
Isaak Khalatnikov
Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (1919–2021) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist who co-discovered the chaotic BKL singularity and founded and directed the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Isaak Pomeranchuk
Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (Исаа́к Я́ковлевич Померанчу́к) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, born in Warsaw in 1913, known for the Pomeranchuk effect, the Pomeranchuk theorem, and the pomeron.
Isadore Rudnick
Isadore Rudnick was an American physicist who spent 39 years on the UCLA faculty, discovered third sound in superfluid helium films, and won the Acoustical Society's Gold Medal.
Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki (赤崎 勇) was a Japanese physicist and electrical engineer who pioneered the gallium nitride blue LED and shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics; he died in 2021.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Isidor Isaac Rabi was an American physicist who won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.
Itai Cohen
Itai Cohen is a soft-matter physicist and Professor of Physics at Cornell University whose group studies shear-thickening suspensions, origami metamaterials, insect flight, and micrometer-scale robots, holding the record for the smallest walking robot.
Itamar Procaccia
Itamar Procaccia is an Israeli physicist at the Weizmann Institute known for the Grassberger–Procaccia algorithm for chaotic attractors, turbulence theory, and amorphous solids; he won the Israel Prize in 2009.
Itay Halevy
Itay Halevy is an Israeli isotope biogeochemist and geobiologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for Science papers on Earth's early sulfur cycle and seawater chemistry.
Ivan I. Smalyukh
Ivan I. Smalyukh is a soft matter physicist, professor at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2017, known for discovering liquid crystal hopfions, heliknotons, and monoclinic nematics.
Iván K. Schuller
Iván K. Schuller, also published as Ivan K. Schuller, is a condensed matter physicist, Professor at UC San Diego since 1987, known for metallic superlattices and spintronics.
Ivan Paul Kaminow
Ivan Paul Kaminow (1930–2013) was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer who spent a 42-year career at Bell Labs shaping lightwave communications, the technology behind optical-fiber networks.
Ivan Pulyui
Ivan Pulyui (Іван Пулюй) was a Ukrainian physicist and electrical engineer who built early X-ray-emitting tubes, co-translated the first complete Ukrainian Bible in 1903, and served as rector of the German Polytechnic in Prague.