Flashcards: Cosmologists

João Magueijo (born 1967) is a Portuguese cosmologist and professor in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.

Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (French: [pjɛʁ tejaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] (); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man.

Alexander Vilenkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Виле́нкин,Ukrainian: Олександр Віленкін; 13 May 1949, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union) is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University.

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi or Fakhruddin Razi (Persian: فخر الدين رازي‎‎) was a Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher He was born in 1149 in Rey (in today's Iran), and died in 1209 in Herat (in today's Afghanistan).

Jiun-Huei Proty Wu is a cosmologist in Taiwan.

Martin Bojowald (born February 18, 1973, in Jülich) is a German physicist who now works on the faculty of the Penn State Physics Department, where he is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos.

John Andrew Peacock, FRS, FRSE (born 27 March 1956) is a British cosmologist, astronomer, and academic.

Yun Wang (born 1964) is a poet and cosmologist.

Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRS (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist.

Michael Rowan-Robinson (born 1942) is an astronomer and astrophysicist.

Amanda Weltman (born 1979) is a South African theoretical physicist.

Professor David Lyth is a researcher in particle cosmology at the University of Lancaster.

Laurent Nottale (born 29 July 1952) is an astrophysicist, a director of research at CNRS, and a researcher at the Paris Observatory.

Brian Thomas Swimme (born 1950) is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program.

John G. Hartnett (born 24 March 1952 in Manjimup, Western Australia), is an Australian Cosmologist, and a Christian with a biblical creationist worldview.

Carlos Silvestre Frenk, FRS (born October 27, 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist.

Together with Gia Dvali, he suggested the idea of brane inflation in 1998 which was later put on concrete string theoretic grounds by Shamit Kachru and collaborators.

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Jeffrey Renwick Weeks (born December 10, 1956) is an American mathematician, a geometric topologist and cosmologist.

Thomas A. Matthews was an American astronomer.

Pedro Gil Ferreira (born 18 March 1968) is a British/Portuguese astrophysicist and author.

Paul Charles William Davies, AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.

Wendy Laurel Freedman (born July 17, 1957) is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble Constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile.

Eric J. Lerner (born May 31, 1947) is an American scientist, popular science author, independent plasma researcher, and president of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc.

Kris Sigurdson is a Canadian physicist and cosmologist.

Robert Herman (August 29, 1914 – February 13, 1997) was a United States scientist, best known for his work with Ralph Alpher in 1948-50, on estimating the temperature of cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang explosion.

Neil Geoffrey Turok (born 16 November 1958) is a South African physicist, and the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

George Francis Rayner Ellis, FRS, Hon.

Gennady Chibisov (Russian: Геннадий Чибисов; September 23, 1946 – August 7, 2008) was a Soviet/Russian cosmologist.

Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist.

Bharat Vishnu Ratra (born January 26, 1960) is an Indian-American physicist and theoretical cosmologist and astroparticle physicist who is currently university distinguished professor of physics at Kansas State University.

Tod R. Lauer (born 1957) is an American astronomer on the research staff of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.

Trịnh Xuân Thuận (born August 20, 1948) is a Vietnamese-American astrophysicist.

Farzana Aslam is a Pakistani physicist and astronomer.

Richard Salisbury Ellis CBE FRS (born 25 May 1950, Colwyn Bay, Wales) is Professor of Astrophysics at the University College London, currently on leave as Senior Scientist at the European Southern Observatory.

David Todd Wilkinson (13 May 1935 – 5 September 2002) was a world-renowned pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang.

Moshe Carmeli (Hebrew: משה כרמלי‎‎, 1933–2007) was the Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University (BGU), Beer Sheva, Israel and President of the Israel Physical Society.

Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronomy Program.

Ole Andreas Krogness (23 May 1886 – 28 May 1934) was a Norwegian physicist.

Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan is a professor in the departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University.

Owen Jay Gingerich (/ˈɡɪŋɡərɪtʃ/; born 1930) is professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Nikodem Janusz Popławski (born March 1, 1975) is a theoretical physicist, most widely noted for the hypothesis that every black hole could be a doorway to another universe and that the Universe was formed within a black hole which itself exists in a larger universe.

Laura Mersini-Houghton (née Mersini) is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Engelbert Levin Schücking (May 23, 1926 – January 5, 2015), in English-language works often cited as E.

Arthur Geoffrey Walker (17 July 1909 – 31 March 2001) was a leading mathematician who made important contributions to physics and physical cosmology.

Avishai Dekel (born 1951) is a professor of physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, holding the Andre Aisenstadt Chair of Theoretical Physics.

Bruce Winstein (25 September 1943, Los Angeles – 28 February 2011) was an experimental physicist and cosmologist noted for his early work in elementary particle physics, particularly work toward demonstrating a serious asymmetry between particles and their anti-particles (CP violation).

Jürgen Ehlers (German: [ˈjʏʁɡŋ̩ ˈeːlɐs]; 29 December 1929 – 20 May 2008) was a German physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/; Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Greek pronunciation: [aristotélɛːs], Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece.

Paul Joseph Steinhardt (born December 25, 1952) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University.

His most cited work is "On the gravitational field of a massless particle" together with Peter C.

Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (January 27, 1903 – August 26, 1961) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle.

Leonard Emanuel Parker (born Leonard Pearlman in 1938 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and a former Director of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Mark Trodden (born 1968) is a theoretical cosmologist and particle physicist.

Ofer Lahav is Perren Chair of Astronomy at University College London (UCL).

Peter Coles is a theoretical cosmologist and former head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex, a post he took up in February 2013.

In 1989, in collaboration with Jose Maza, Mark M.

Aaron R. Parsons (born 28 August 1980) is an astrophysicist who works primarily in the fields of radio astronomy instrumentation and experimental cosmology.

Anzhong Wang is a theoretical physicist, specialized in gravitation, cosmology and astroparticle physics.

Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist.