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Nicholas Read
Nicholas Read, born 1958, is a British-born American theoretical condensed matter physicist, the Henry Ford II Professor at Yale, known for the fractional quantum Hall effect and non-Abelian quasiparticles.
Nick Scoville
Nick Scoville, also known as Nicholas Z. Scoville, is a Caltech astronomer known for pioneering millimeter-wave CO observations of star-forming gas and founding the COSMOS survey.
Nicola Cabibbo
Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010) was an Italian theoretical physicist who introduced the Cabibbo angle in a 1963 paper that became a foundation of quark flavor mixing.
Nicola Marzari
Nicola Marzari is a computational condensed-matter physicist, chair of materials simulation at EPFL and director of MARVEL, elected the tenth Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge in 2025.
Nicola Spaldin
Nicola Spaldin is a British-born materials theorist, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich since 2010, best known for developing multiferroics and honored with the Körber Prize, the L'Oréal-UNESCO award, and the Marcel Benoist Prize.
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017) was a Dutch-born American physicist at Harvard, known for the three-level solid state maser and nonlinear optics, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser spectroscopy.
Nicolas Brunner
Nicolas Brunner is a Swiss theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Geneva, known for his research on Bell nonlocality and its extension to quantum networks.
Nicolas Gisin
Nicolas Gisin, born 1952 in Geneva, is a Swiss quantum physicist known for quantum cryptography and teleportation over optical fibers, and winner of the first Bell Prize.
Nicolay G. Basov
Nicolay G. Basov, born Nikolai Gennadievich Basov, was a Soviet physicist and director of the Lebedev Institute who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for the maser-laser principle.
Nidhal Guessoum
Nidhal Guessoum is an Algerian astrophysicist and professor at the American University of Sharjah, known for gamma-ray astrophysics research and his 2010 book Islam's Quantum Question.
Niek van Hulst
Niek van Hulst is a Dutch physicist in nanophotonics, known for optical antenna imaging and single-molecule nano-optics, and an ICREA professor at ICFO in Barcelona since 2005.
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist whose 1913 quantum model explained atomic structure; he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 and led Copenhagen's theoretical physics institute.
Nigel Cooper
Nigel R. Cooper is a British theoretical physicist, professor at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, known for research on ultracold atoms, quantum gases, and topological phases of matter.
Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld is a British and American theoretical physicist, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego since 2021, known for work on pattern formation, turbulence, and the origins of life.
Nigel Weiss
Nigel Oscar Weiss (1936–2020) was a South African-born astrophysicist and applied mathematician at Cambridge, a world authority on sunspots and the Sun's 22-year magnetic cycle.
Nikita Nekrasov
Nikita Nekrasov, born 1973 in Moscow, is a Russian and French mathematical physicist known for the Nekrasov partition functions, the BPS/CFT correspondence, and the Nekrasov–Shatashvili limit.
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Nikolai Bogolyubov was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist, born in 1909, who created the microscopic theory of superfluidity and directed the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna from 1965 to 1989.
Nikolai Kardashev
Nikolai Kardashev, also known as Nikolai Semenovich Kardashev, was a Soviet and Russian radio astronomer who helped establish Soviet SETI, co-invented very-long-baseline interferometry, and proposed the Kardashev scale in 1964.
Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov
Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov (1917–1947) was a Russian theoretical physicist who showed that mixing is a sufficient condition for relaxation to equilibrium; his posthumous 1950 book anticipated dynamical chaos.
Nikolay V. Vitanov
Nikolay V. Vitanov is a Bulgarian theoretical physicist and full professor of theoretical physics at Sofia University, known for composite pulses and composite STIRAP, robust techniques for high-fidelity quantum control.
Nikolay Zheludev
Nikolay I. Zheludev, born 1955, is a physicist known as a founding member of nanophotonics and metamaterials, deputy director at Southampton's Zepler Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Nils Christoffer Dunér
Nils Christoffer Dunér (1839–1914) was a Swedish astronomer who introduced astrophysics to Sweden and, as Uppsala's professor of astronomy, spectroscopically measured the Sun's differential rotation to near its poles.
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed, born 1972, is a Canadian-American theoretical particle physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for large extra dimensions, split supersymmetry, and the amplituhedron.
Nirit Dudovich
Nirit Dudovich (נירית דודוביץ) is an Israeli physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies attosecond science, measuring electron motion with ultra-short laser pulses.
Noam Soker
Noam Soker is an Israeli theoretical astrophysicist, born in 1958, a full professor at the Technion known for the core-degenerate model of Type Ia supernovae and the jittering-jet mechanism.
Noel A. Clark
Noel A. Clark, born 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for work on ferroelectric liquid crystals.
Nongjian Tao
Nongjian Tao (N. J. Tao), 1963–2020, was a Chinese-born physicist and electrical engineer at Arizona State University who invented the STM break junction for measuring single-molecule conductance.
Norbert F. Scherer
Norbert F. Scherer is an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago who joined in 1997 and works on ultrafast spectroscopy, single-molecule microscopy, nanoplasmonics, and optical matter.
Norman F. Ness
Norman F. Ness (1933–2023) was an American space physicist at NASA Goddard who designed the Voyager magnetometers and led the discovery of the magnetic fields of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Norman F. Ramsey
Norman F. Ramsey (1915–2011) was an American Harvard physicist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the separated oscillatory fields method behind atomic clocks.