Physicists And Chemists Of The 20Th Century
18 entries in the Physicists And Chemists Of The 20Th Century compendium.
Physicists And Chemists Of The 20Th Century — Era Chart
Maria Goeppert MayerSecond woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.Maurice WilkinsBiophysicist who pioneered X-ray diffraction studies of DNA.Max von LaueGerman physicist who discovered X-ray diffraction by crystals.Melvin CalvinBiochemist who discovered the Calvin cycle.Nicolaas BloembergenDutch–American physicist who made key contributions to nonlinear optics and laser spectrosNikolay BasovSoviet physicist who co-developed the laser and maser.Otto SternGerman–American physicist; Nobel laureate for molecular beam method.Paul BergAmerican biochemist and Nobel laureate in recombinant DNA.Paul FloryGerman chemist and physicist, professor of physics at the Free University of Berlin.Percy Williams BridgmanAmerican physicist and Nobel laureate in high-pressure physics.Peter GrünbergGerman physicist who co-discovered giant magnetoresistance, enabling modern hard drives.Peter HiggsBritish physicist behind the Higgs mechanism.Philip W. AndersonNobel laureate who shaped condensed matter physics and emergent phenomena.Pierre-Gilles de GennesFrench physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, 1991.Robert B. LaughlinAmerican physicist who explained the fractional quantum Hall effect.Robert Burns WoodwardAmerican organic chemist and Nobel laureate in synthesis.Robert Coleman RichardsonAmerican physicist who discovered superfluidity in helium-3.Robert HofstadterAmerican physicist, Nobel laureate for electron scattering studies.
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