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Julian Schwinger

Julian Schwinger was an American physicist who helped formulate quantum electrodynamics and shared the 1965 Nobel Prize...

American Theory Quantum Nobel

9.4 Excellent

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Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot was a French physicist whose 1824 analysis of ideal heat engines founded thermodynamics and...

Classical French Theory Thermodynamics

9.3 Excellent

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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, was a British physicist who formulated the absolute temperature scale in 1848 and helped f...

Classical Theory Victorian Thermodynamics

9.3 Excellent

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Philip W. Anderson

Philip W. Anderson was an American physicist known for Anderson localization and broken symmetry, sharing the 1977 Nobel...

American Localization Theory Nobel

9.2 Excellent

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John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler was an American physicist who advanced nuclear fission, general relativity, and popularized the t...

Modern American Theory Gravity

9.1 Excellent

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John Bell

John Bell was a Northern Irish physicist whose 1964 theorem gave an experimental test separating quantum mechanics from...

Modern Theory Quantum Irish

9.1 Excellent

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Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Kirchhoff was a German physicist who formulated circuit laws in 1845 and, with Robert Bunsen, founded spectroscop...

German Classical Theory Spectroscopy

8.8 Great

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Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Ginzburg was a Russian physicist who developed Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity and shared the 2003 No...

Russian Theory Superconductivity Nobel

8.8 Great

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David Bohm

David Bohm was an American theoretical physicist known for the 1952 pilot-wave interpretation of quantum mechanics and t...

Modern American Theory Quantum

8.8 Great

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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist who applied order-parameter ideas to soft matter and won the 1991 Nobel P...

French Theory Polymers Nobel

8.7 Great

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Andrew Strominger

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Modern American Theory Gravity

8.7 Great

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Alexei Abrikosov

Alexei Abrikosov was a Russian-American physicist who predicted vortex lattices in type-II superconductors and shared th...

Russian Theory Superconductivity Nobel

8.6 Great

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Leon Cooper

Leon Cooper is an American physicist who identified Cooper pairs in 1956 and shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for BCS superco...

American Theory Superconductivity Nobel

8.6 Great

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Nevill Francis Mott

Nevill Francis Mott was a British physicist whose work on electronic structures of magnetic and disordered systems earne...

Theory British Semiconductors Nobel

8.6 Great

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Eugene Parker

Eugene Parker was an American astrophysicist who predicted the solar wind in 1958 and gave his name to NASA's Parker Sol...

Modern American Theory Space

8.6 Great

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Demetrios Christodoulou

Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist known for rigorous work on general relativity and black h...

Modern Relativity Theory Greek

8.4 Great

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Abhay Ashtekar

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Modern Relativity Theory Indian

8.2 Great

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Sergio Ferrara

Sergio Ferrara is an Italian theoretical physicist who helped develop supergravity in 1976 and shared the 2019 Breakthro...

Modern Italian Theory Particles

8.2 Great

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Bryce DeWitt

Bryce DeWitt was an American theoretical physicist known for quantum gravity and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation formulated...

Modern American Relativity Theory

8.1 Great

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Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist known for loop quantum gravity and for proposing cosmological natural se...

Modern American Theory Loop

7.6 Good