Flashcards: Particle physicists

Kim Maltman (born 1951) is a Canadian poet and physicist who lives in Toronto.

Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer (German: [ʁɔlf ˈdiːtɐ ˈhɔʏɐ]; born 24 May 1948 in Boll) is a German particle physicist and the Director General of CERN from 2009 to 2015.

Pran Nath is a theoretical physicist working at Northeastern University, with research focus in elementary particle physics.

Rahul Mahajan is an American blogger, author, and educator.

Asım Orhan Barut (June 6, 1926 – December 5, 1994) was a Turkish-American theoretical physicist.

Holger Bech Nielsen (born 25 August 1941) is a Danish theoretical physicist, Professor emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, where he started studying physics in 1961.

Xie Jialin (simplified Chinese: 谢家麟; traditional Chinese: 謝家麟; 8 August 1920 – 20 February 2016) was a Chinese physicist.

Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (/ɡʊˈrælnɪk/; September 17, 1936 – April 26, 2014) was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University.

Rohini Godbole is an Indian physicist and academic.

Werner Nahm (born 21 March 1949 in Münster (Selters), Germany) is a German theoretical physicist, with the status of professor.

Rajendran Raja (14 July 1948 – 15 February 2014) was an Indian-American physicist who played a key role in the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab.

Mariangela Lisanti (born September 2, 1983) is an American theoretical physicist and assistant professor of physics at Princeton University.

Alvin V. Tollestrup is a high-energy particle physicist best known for his key roles in the development of the superconducting magnets for Fermilab's Tevatron and the formation of CDF.

Joseph "Joe" Incandela is an American particle physicist, a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and currently based at CERN where he spent two years as the spokesperson for the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Jun John Sakurai (桜井 純 Sakurai Jun, January 31, 1933 – November 1, 1982) was a Japanese-American particle physicist and theorist.

Paolo Giubellino, (born 9 November 1960) is an experimental particle physicist working on High-Energy Nuclear Collisions at CERN.

Marcela Carena (born 22 March 22, 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor at the University of Chicago and the Enrico Fermi Institute.

Ashutosh Vijay Kotwal (born December 20, 1965) is an American particle physicist of Indian origin.

George Ernest Kalmus, CBE, FRS (born 21 April 1935) is a noted British particle physicist.

Amitava Raychaudhuri is an Indian theoretical particle physicist.

John Sampson Toll (October 25, 1923 – July 15, 2011) was an American physicist and educational administrator.

Cecilia Jarlskog (born in 1941) is a Swedish theoretical physicist, working mainly on elementary particle physics.

Carl Richard Hagen (/ˈheɪɡən/; born 2 February 1937) is a professor of particle physics at the University of Rochester.

Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith FRS (born 19 November 1942) completed his D.

David J. Griffiths (born 1942) is a U.

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).

Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme (/skɜːrm/; 5 December 1922, Lewisham – 25 June 1987) was a British physicist.

Paul Howard Frampton (born 31 October 1943) is a British particle phenomenologist.

Gail G. Hanson (born 22 February 1947 in Dayton, Ohio is an American experimental particle physicist.

Benjamin Whisoh Lee (Hangul: 이휘소; January 1, 1935 – June 16, 1977) or Ben Lee, was a Korean-born American theoretical physicist.

Gilbert "Gil" Jerome Perlow (10 February 1916 – 17 February 2007), was an American physicist famous for his work related to the Mössbauer effect, and an editor of the Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters.

Serge Rudaz (born August 19, 1954, pronounced "Rü-DAH") is a Canadian theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota.

Atul Gurtu (born 16 January 1946) is a leading high energy physicist in India.

Savas Dimopoulos (Greek: Σάββας Δημόπουλος; born 1952) is a particle physicist at Stanford University.

Richard E. Cutkosky (29 July 1928 – 17 June 1993) was a physicist, best known for the Cutkosky cutting rules in quantum field theory, which give a simple way to calculate the discontinuity of the scattering amplitude by Feynman diagrams.

Kenneth Douglas Lane is an American theoretical particle physicist and professor of physics at Boston University.

John Gaston "Jack" Fox (March 5, 1916 – July 24, 1980) was an American nuclear physicist.

Persis S. Drell (born December 30, 1956) is an American physicist best known for her expertise in the field of particle physics.

José Leite Lopes (October 28, 1918 – June 12, 2006), noted Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics.

Stephan Narison is a Malagasy theoretical high-energy physicist specialized in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the gauge theory of strong interactions.

Stanley Martin Flatté (2 December 1940, Los Angeles – 4 November 2007) was a particle physicist and expert on wave propagation in atmospheric optics, ocean acoustics, and seismology.

Alfred K. Mann (4 September 1920 – 13 January 2013) was a particle physicist, known for his role in the discovery of fundamental properties of neutrinos.

Michael K. Moe (born 17 November 1937 in Milwaukee) is an American experimental physicist, specializing in particle physics and nuclear physics.

Peter E. Hodgson (27 November 1928, London – 8 December 2008) was a British physicist, who also wrote about the philosophy of physics and social issues, and was an active Roman Catholic.

Peter Ignaz Paul Kalmus, OBE, Hon FInstP is a noted British particle physicist.

Stanley Mandelstam (12 December 1928 – 23 June 2016) was a South Africa-born American theoretical physicist.

Shirley Ann Jackson FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Anthony Ichiro Sanda (三田 一郎 Sanda Ichirō, born March 4, 1944) is a Japanese-American particle physicist.

David B. Kaplan is an American physicist born in 1958.

Heidi Marie Schellman (born 1957) is an American particle physicist at Oregon State University (OSU), where she heads the Department of Physics.

JoAnne L. Hewett (born 1960) is a theoretical particle physicist on the faculty of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where she is a professor in the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, and Director of the Elementary Particle Physics Division.

George D. Gollin (born May 6, 1953) is an American physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

William Rarità (March 21, 1907 – July 8, 1999) was an American theoretical physicist who mainly worked on nuclear physics, particle physics and relativistic quantum mechanics.

Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (Brussels, 10 February 1924 – Geneva, 2 September 1990) was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN.

Stephen Parke (born 1950) is a New Zealand physicist.

Kyle Cranmer is an American physicist and a professor at New York University at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and Affiliated Faculty member at NYU's Center for Data Science.

Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist.

Mohammad Sajjad "Saj" Alam (born 5 January 1947) is an American physicist born in British India (Pakistan after 1947, and Bangladesh after 1971).

Thomas Appelquist is a theoretical particle physicist who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University.

Stephanie A. Majewski (born 1981) is an American physicist at the University of Oregon (UO) researching high energy particle physics at the CERN ATLAS experiment.

Thomas (Tom) John Ypsilantis (Greek: Θωμάς Ιωάννη Υψηλάντης; June 24, 1928 in Salt Lake City, Utah – August 16, 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an American physicist of Greek descent.

Richard Henry Dalitz, FRS (28 February 1925 – 13 January 2006) was an Australian physicist known for his work in particle physics.

Particle physicist and software developer Paul Kunz initiated the deployment of the first web server outside of Europe.

Masoud Alimohammadi (Persian: مسعود علی‌محمدی‎‎, 24 August 1959 – 12 January 2010) was an Iranian quantum field theorist and elementary-particle physicist and a distinguished professor of elementary particle physics at the University of Tehran's Department of Physics.

Nashwa Abo Alhassan Eassa is a nano-particle physicist from Sudan.

Bhalchandra Madhav Udgaonkar is an Indian theoretical particle physicist, scientist, educationist and the co-editor of A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Desirable?, Feasible?.

Piermaria J Oddone is a Peruvian-American particle physicist.

Anthony Zee (Chinese: 徐一鸿, b. 1945) (Zee is the Shanghainese pronunciation of 徐) is a Chinese American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Maxim Nikolaevich Chernodub (born June 7, 1973) is a Ukrainian physicist best known for his postulation of the magnetic-field-induced superconductivity of the vacuum.

Leigh Page (October 13, 1884 – September 14, 1952) was an American theoretical physicist.

John Michael 'Rab' Rabinovich, later known as J.

Lorella Margaret Jones (February 22, 1943 – February 9, 1995) was a professor of physics and director of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Charles James "Chuck" Hailey is an eminent experimental astrophysicist and Pupin Professor of Physics at Columbia University.

Raman Sundrum is an American theoretical particle physicist.

Christopher T. Hill (born June 9, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Oreste Piccioni (October 24, 1915 – April 13, 2002) was an Italian-American physicist who made important contributions to elementary particle physics during the early years of its history.

Christine Sutton is a particle physicist who has edited the CERN Courier since 2003.

Richard A. Muller (born January 6, 1944) is an American professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Earl W. (Wadsworth) McDaniel (April 15, 1926 – May 4, 1997) was a Regents Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Tech Research Institute and is most noted for his contributions to the field of ion mobility spectrometry.

Maria Spiropulu (Greek: Μαρία Σπυροπούλου) is an experimental physicist at the California Institute of Technology.

Alan Kostelecký is a theoretical physicist who is a distinguished professor of physics at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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

Chia-Hsiung Tze (often H.C. Tze) is a professor emeritus at Virginia Tech.

Cosmas K. Zachos (Greek: Κοσμάς Ζάχος; born 1951, Athens) is a theoretical physicist.

David Elazzar Kaplan is a theoretical particle physicist at the Johns Hopkins University.

David Locke Webster (November 6, 1888 – December 17, 1976) was an American physicist and physics professor, whose early research on X-rays and Parson's magneton influenced Arthur Compton.

Herbert Stanley Allen FRSE FRS (29 December 1873 – 27 April 1954) was an English physicist noted as a pioneer in early X-ray research, working under J.

Jane English (was born 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a philosopher, physicist, photographer, journalist and translator.