• Thumbnail for John Houghton (physicist)
    Sir John Theodore Houghton CBE FRS FLSW (30 December 1931 – 15 April 2020) was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental...
    21 KB (1,830 words) - 00:57, 5 October 2024
  • constituency) John Houghton (Manx politician) John Houghton (Zimbabwean politician) John Houghton (physicist) (1931–2020), Welsh atmospheric physicist John Houghton...
    970 bytes (125 words) - 18:41, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jesus College, Oxford
    and the political philosopher John Gray. Past students and fellows in the sciences include John Houghton (physicist) and Nobel Laureate Peter J. Ratcliffe...
    91 KB (9,954 words) - 11:02, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Trowbridge (physicist)
    John Trowbridge (August 5, 1843 – February 18, 1923) was an American physicist, noted for his research into electricity and magnetism, and for his innovations...
    7 KB (578 words) - 14:01, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brian Cox (physicist)
    Brian Edward Cox CBE FRS (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and musician who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and...
    48 KB (4,009 words) - 08:05, 11 October 2024
  • Laura Mersini-Houghton (born 1969), Albanian theoretical physicist-cosmologist Michael Houghton (born 1949), British scientist Nick Houghton (born 1954)...
    4 KB (478 words) - 15:16, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Ellis (physicist, born 1946)
    Jonathan Richard "John" Ellis CBE FRS HonFInstP (born 1 July 1946) is a British-Swiss theoretical physicist. After completing his secondary education...
    33 KB (3,225 words) - 08:35, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theodore Hall
    Theodore Hall (category 20th-century American physicists)
    Theodore Alvin Hall (October 20, 1925 – November 1, 1999) was an American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union, who, during his work on United...
    27 KB (3,102 words) - 19:52, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frank Oppenheimer
    Frank Oppenheimer (category Accelerator physicists)
    Oppenheimer (14 August 1912 – 3 February 1985) was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and...
    27 KB (2,768 words) - 02:09, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Polkinghorne
    John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent...
    44 KB (4,668 words) - 17:44, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ali Javan
    Ali Javan (category American physicists)
    Javān); December 26, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was an Iranian American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser...
    15 KB (1,633 words) - 06:57, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eugene Parker
    Eugene Parker (category People from Houghton, Michigan)
    Parker (June 10, 1927 – March 15, 2022) was an American solar and plasma physicist. In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the...
    16 KB (1,279 words) - 08:39, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Hopfield
    John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative...
    29 KB (2,421 words) - 18:13, 12 October 2024
  • For other people named John Platt, see John Platt. John Rader Platt (June 29, 1918 – June 17, 1992) was an American physicist and biophysicist, professor...
    4 KB (406 words) - 02:00, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edwin Hall
    Edwin Hall (category American physicists)
    Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 – November 20, 1938) was an American physicist, who discovered the electric field Hall effect. Hall conducted thermoelectric...
    8 KB (686 words) - 19:25, 23 September 2024
  • Electricians: This chapter covers physicists from the 18th century onward including J.J. Thomson, a physicist, and John Dalton, and Dmitri Mendeleev both...
    13 KB (1,333 words) - 13:58, 23 September 2024
  • of Houghton-le-Spring, Archdeacon of Durham Sir William Herschel, composer and astronomer, discoverer of Uranus William Reid Clanny, Irish physicist Charlie...
    14 KB (1,558 words) - 06:33, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leon M. Lederman
    Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz...
    32 KB (3,092 words) - 15:55, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paul Davies
    Paul Charles William Davies AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and director...
    24 KB (2,379 words) - 03:48, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harvard University
    several Harvard buildings, including four of the university's libraries, Houghton, Lamont, Pusey, and Widener. Also on Harvard Yard are Massachusetts Hall...
    116 KB (9,315 words) - 14:44, 12 October 2024
  • mathematical transformations that identify one physical theory with another. Physicists studying string theory have discovered a number of these dualities between...
    123 KB (15,355 words) - 01:55, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Klaus Fuchs
    Klaus Fuchs (category British nuclear physicists)
    Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and...
    56 KB (7,391 words) - 15:42, 8 October 2024
  • and brother of William F. Buckley Jr.: 168, 174  John Bannister Goodenough (1944), solid-state physicist at the University of Texas at Austin and winner...
    73 KB (7,326 words) - 04:31, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theory of everything
    between John Ellis (physicist), Frank Close and Nicholas Maxwell. Why The World Exists, a discussion between physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton, cosmologist...
    52 KB (6,472 words) - 18:51, 6 October 2024
  • Techniques. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 16–20, 75–81. ISBN 9781883249120. Bass, Thomas A. (April 26, 1999). "Black Box: What Happens when maverick physicists in New...
    3 KB (306 words) - 00:01, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joule
    a resistance of one ohm for one second. It is named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule (1818–1889). In terms of SI base units and in terms...
    24 KB (2,793 words) - 20:25, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victor Weisskopf
    Victor Weisskopf (category 20th-century Austrian physicists)
    19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang...
    21 KB (1,871 words) - 07:07, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ira Sprague Bowen
    Ira Sprague Bowen (category Houghton University alumni)
    Sprague Bowen (December 21, 1898 – February 6, 1973) was an American physicist and astronomer. In 1927 he discovered that nebulium was not really a chemical...
    11 KB (973 words) - 14:17, 16 May 2024
  • (1831–1879), physicist; electromagnetism William George Penney (1909–1991), nuclear physicist John Polkinghorne (1930–2021), physicist, religious thinker...
    34 KB (3,717 words) - 01:41, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Multiverse
    in various fields, including cosmology, physics, and philosophy. Some physicists argue that the multiverse is a philosophical notion rather than a scientific...
    67 KB (7,465 words) - 22:21, 9 October 2024