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Philip W. Anderson

Philip W. Anderson was a prominent American physicist specializing in condensed matter theory. He is particularly recogn...

American Localization Theory Nobel

9.2 Excellent

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Carl David Anderson

Carl David Anderson was a prominent American experimental physicist whose research significantly advanced our understand...

American Experimental Nobel Cosmicrays

8.9 Great

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William Fowler

William Fowler was a pioneering American physicist specializing in experimental astrophysics and nuclear physics. His wo...

American Experimental Astrophysics Nuclear

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Charles H. Townes

Charles H. Townes was an American physicist who built the first maser in 1953 and shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for maser...

American Experimental Laser Nobel

8.7 Great

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Rainer Weiss

Rainer Weiss is an American physicist who proposed the laser interferometer design behind LIGO and shared the 2017 Nobel...

American Experimental Gravity Waves

8.7 Great

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David J. Thouless

David J. Thouless was a British-American physicist whose work on topological phases of matter earned a share of the 2016...

Theory British Topology Nobel

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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F. Duncan M. Haldane

F. Duncan M. Haldane is a British-American physicist whose theory of topological phases helped win the 2016 Nobel Prize...

Theory British Topology Nobel

8.6 Great

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Steven Chu

Steven Chu is an American physicist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for laser cooling and trapping atoms and later serve...

Atomic American Experimental Laser

8.6 Great

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Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez was an American physicist awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize for hydrogen bubble-chamber work that found m...

American Experimental Nobel Particles

8.6 Great

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Mildred Dresselhaus

Mildred Dresselhaus was an American physicist known as the Queen of Carbon Science for work on graphite, nanotubes, and...

Modern American Experimental Condensed

8.6 Great

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Antoine Henri Becquerel

Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who discovered natural radioactivity in uranium salts in 1896 and won the...

Modern French Radioactivity Experimental

8.5 Great

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J. Michael Kosterlitz

J. Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist who co-described the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and shared the...

Theory British Topology Nobel

8.5 Great

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Robert B. Laughlin

Robert B. Laughlin is an American physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for explaining the fractional quantum Hall e...

American Theory Nobel Condensed

8.5 Great

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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for developing laser cooling and atom-trapp...

Atomic French Experimental Laser

8.5 Great

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Raymond Davis Jr.

Raymond Davis Jr. was an American physicist whose Homestake experiment detected solar neutrinos, earning him a share of...

American Experimental Astrophysics Nobel

8.5 Great

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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist called a founder of modern magnetism and shared the 1977 Nobel Prize...

American Theory Nobel Magnetism

8.4 Great

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Horst Ludwig Stormer

Horst Ludwig Stormer is a German-born physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for discovering the fractional quantum H...

German Experimental Nobel Condensed

8.2 Great