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Oskar Painter
Oskar Painter, born 1972, is an experimental physicist and Caltech professor known for optomechanical crystals, who since December 2019 has directed quantum hardware at Amazon Web Services.
Ostap Stepanovich Parasyuk
Ostap Stepanovich Parasyuk (Остап Степанович Парасюк; 1921–2007) was a Ukrainian mathematician and theoretical physicist, co-author of the Bogoliubov–Parasyuk theorem subtracting ultraviolet divergences in quantum field theory.
Otto Haxel
Otto Haxel (1909–1998) was a German nuclear physicist who co-discovered the nuclear shell model in 1949, led research at Heidelberg and Karlsruhe, and signed the 1957 Göttingen Declaration against nuclear weapons.
Otto Heckmann
Otto Heckmann (1901–1983) was a German astronomer who classified relativistic world models, led the Hamburg Observatory, and became the first Director General of the European Southern Observatory in 1962.
Otto Kratky
Otto Kratky (1902–1995) was an Austrian physical chemist who made small-angle X-ray scattering a general method for determining the size and shape of macromolecules in solution, and designed the Kratky camera.
Otto L. Muskens
Otto L. Muskens is a Dutch nanophotonics researcher, Professor of Physics at the University of Southampton since 2014, known for light scattering in nanowire mats.
Otto Laporte
Otto Laporte (1902–1971) was a German-born American physicist at the University of Michigan, known for the Laporte rule in atomic spectroscopy and for shock tube research.
Otto Lehmann (physicist)
Otto Lehmann (1855–1922) was a German physicist who succeeded Heinrich Hertz at Karlsruhe, coined the term "liquid crystal," and promoted the field from 1889 onward.
Otto Lummer
Otto Lummer (1860–1925) was a German experimental physicist whose precision blackbody measurements at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt helped lead Max Planck to the quantum hypothesis in 1900.
Otto Richard Lummer
Otto Richard Lummer (1860–1925) was a German experimental physicist who, with Wien and Pringsheim at the Reichsanstalt in Berlin, verified the radiation laws and prompted Planck's 1900 quantum formula.
Otto Robert Frisch
Otto Robert Frisch was an Austrian-born British physicist who, with his aunt Lise Meitner, interpreted and named nuclear fission, proved it experimentally in 1939, and co-authored the 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum showing an atomic bomb was feasible.
Otto Schmidt
Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (Отто Юльевич Шмидт; 1891–1956) was a Soviet mathematician, Arctic explorer, and planetary scientist whose 1944 theory of Earth's origin became the core-accretion model.
Otto Stern
Otto Stern was a German-born American experimental physicist who founded molecular beam physics, co-created the 1922 Stern–Gerlach experiment, and won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Otto Struve
Otto Struve (Отто Людвигович Струве, 1897–1963) was a Russian-born American astronomer of a famous astronomical family, known for showing that early-type stars rotate rapidly and for directing four observatories.
Otto Wiener (physicist)
Otto Wiener (1862–1927) was a German physicist whose 1890 experiment photographed standing light waves, showing that the electric component of light drives the chemical effect.
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Otto Wilhelm von Struve, known in Russian as Otto Vasil'evich Struvé, was a Russian astronomer who directed the Pulkovo Observatory from 1862 to 1889 and discovered over 500 double stars.
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006) was an American experimental physicist at UC Berkeley who co-discovered the antiproton and shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Emilio Segrè.
Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich (1930–2023) was an American astronomer and historian of science at Harvard, best known for his three-decade census of copies of Copernicus's De revolutionibus.
Owen Willans Richardson
Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959) was an English physicist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering Richardson's law of thermionic emission, the basis of vacuum-tube technology.
Ozgur Sahin
Ozgur Sahin (Özgür Şahin) is a physicist and biophysicist, professor at Columbia University, known for bacterial spore actuators, evaporation-driven engines, and the 2023 hydration solids theory.
P. Buford Price
P. Buford Price (1932–2021) was an American nuclear and cosmic-ray physicist at UC Berkeley who co-invented the track-etch technique and helped found the AMANDA neutrino observatory.
P. James Schuck
P. James Schuck is a nano-optics researcher and professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University since 2017, known for upconverting nanoparticle microlasers and photon-avalanching nanocrystals.
P. R. Wallace
P. R. Wallace (Philip Russell Wallace, 1915–2006) was a Canadian theoretical physicist at McGill University whose 1947 paper first derived the electronic band structure of graphene, a single graphite layer.
P. St. J. Russell
P. St. J. Russell, or Philip St. John Russell, is a British physicist who invented photonic crystal fiber and was a founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
P. van der Werf
Paul van der Werf is an astronomer and Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics at Leiden University's Leiden Observatory, studying star formation, molecular gas, and the interstellar medium of galaxies.
Pablo Alonso‐González
Pablo Alonso-González is a Spanish nanooptics physicist who leads the Quantum Nano-optics group at the Universidad de Oviedo, known for the first nanometric-precision imaging of guided light in graphene.
Pablo Jarillo Herrero
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, born 1976 in Valencia, Spain, is a Spanish experimental condensed matter physicist at MIT whose 2018 discovery of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene founded twistronics.
Padmini Rangamani
Padmini Rangamani is an Indian-born American theoretical biophysicist, professor at UC San Diego, and 2017 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Päivi Törmä
Päivi Törmä is a Finnish physicist and professor of applied physics at Aalto University, where she leads the Quantum Dynamics group and studies nanoplasmonics and superconductivity.
Pallab K. Bhattacharya
Pallab K. Bhattacharya, born in India in 1949, is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for discovering self-organized quantum dots and commercializing quantum dot lasers.