Professor Revaz R. Dogonadze's Memorial Page  Dogonadze was the first scientist to view a chemical electron-transfer process as a quantum-mechanical transition between two separate electronic states, induced by weak interactions between the molecular entities represented by the states. One of the most important results of this...

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Wave Mechanics; Prince Louis de Broglie  Broglie published a brief note in the journal Comptes rendus containing an idea that was to revolutionize our understanding of the physical world at the most fundamental level nbsp He had been troubled by a curious contradiction arising from Einstein's...

Heidi Toft's 70 Minutes with Jack Steinberger, a physics Nobel Prize Winner  During the summer and autumn of 1999, she was an undergraduate student and had a placement at CERN, i.e. The European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva. She did an interview with Jack Steinberger, a physics Nobel Prize Winner. Jack...

Noether_Emmy  Click the picture above to see ten larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Emmy Noether's father Max Noether was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at Erlangen. Her mother was...

Schwinger  Click the picture above to see four larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Julian Schwinger progressed rapidly through the public school system of New York City. He was an undergraduate...

Landau_Lev  Click the picture above to see nine larger pictures Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Lev Landau's mother had trained in medicine and she had undertaken work in physiology, while his father was a petroleum...

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Physics 1918  Physics by his discovery of energy quanta Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck Germany Berlin University Berlin, Germany b. 1858 d. 1947 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 Presentation Speech Max Planck Biography Nobel Lecture Banquet Speech Swedish Nobel Stamps Other...

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Sheldon Glashow Autobiography  Bobruisk in the early years of this century. Here they found the freedom and opportunity denied to Jews in Czarist Russia. After years of struggle, my father became a successful plumber, and his family could then enjoy the comforts of...

Steven Weinberg Autobiography  My early inclination toward science received encouragement from my father, and by the time I was 15 or 16 my interests had focused on theoretical physics. I received my undergraduate degree from Cornell in 1954, and then went for a...

Paul A.M. Dirac Biography  He then studied mathematics for two years at Bristol University, later going on to St.John's College, Cambridge, as a research student in mathematics. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1926. The following year he became a Fellow of St.John's College...

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Murray Gell-Mann Biography  Professor for research on dispersion relations. In this period he developed the strangeness theory and the eightfold way theory. In 1956 he was appointed Professor, his research then turned more to the theory of weak interactions. In 1959 Professor Gell-Mann...

Abdus Salam Biography  His father was an official in the Department of Education in a poor farming district. His family has a long tradition of piety and learning. When he cycled home from Lahore, at the age of 14, after gaining the highest...

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Biography  Kyoto when his father was appointed a professor of philosophy at Kyoto Imperial University. From that time he was brought up in Kyoto. He is a graduate of the Third Higher School, Kyoto, a renowned senior high school which has...

Julian Schwinger Biography  The principal direction of his life was fixed at an early age by an intense awareness of physics, and its study became an all-engrossing activity. To judge by a first publication, he debuted as a professional physicist at the age...