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Born in August 1902, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an influential theoretical physicist. Throughout his life he worked on quantum mechanics and even inve ...etical physics was monumental in the creation and modernization of quantum physics. He derived equations that are critical in in applying the relativistic mod ...

...oined the term tachyon and outlined a baseline for some of the theoretical physics surrounding them. Research continues in an attempt to find the theoretical tachyon, however there has been no confirmed success. ...

...position of a particle can be measured. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which ha ...gdom. He returned to Germany in 1946 to found the Max Planck Institute for Physics. He died on February 1, 1976 in Munich. ...

...and the first female theoretical physicists to earn tenure in the Harvard Physics Department. Professor Lisa Randall's research primarily focuses on particle physics, supersymmetry, and cosmology and is a leading scientist on the existence o ...

...nd superfluidity, but was most known for his familiarization with particle physics. He proposed the parton model in 1969. ...

...sekhar was awarded, along with William A. Fowler, the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics, with Chandrasekhar cited for his mathematical theory of the physical proce ...r structures and star mass. In 1983 Chandra was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physical processes involved in the structure and evolut ...

...1945 for his work, which allowed a deeper understanding of the atom in the physics community. ...the University of Hamburg, Pauli was appointed as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He soon progressed to the ...

Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was a German theoretical physicist and renowned mentor of fellow physicists (he has supervised the g ...there being a renowned school of Theoretical Physics, Arnold did not study physics. The quality of the university's teaching staff and his involvement with th ...

...and researcher at the University of Cambridge. His contributions to modern physics have led to theories on quantum mechanics and relativity, as well as widesp ...er wanted him to study medicine as he did; however, Hawking opted to study Physics as a Mathematics major was unavailable. He achieved first class honors degr ...

...d the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics Nobel Prize in Physics] in 1918 for his theory, which revolutionized our understanding or atomic a ...nature of the law of conservation of energy. Planck describes why he chose physics: ...

...the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, he returned to become a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins. In 1938 he left for Chicago to become a professor of phys ...ctron upon an atom," Franck and Hertz were awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics. ...

...n physics as he recommended he attended a school with a better theoretical physics department. Bethe listened to this advice and accepted this professor's spe ...rld at Cornell and together he helped research take giant leaps in nuclear physics. He worked at Cornell until 1941 when he began his work on the Manhattan Pr ...

...n that is useful in electrostatics, mechanical engineering and theoretical physics. For example, it can be used to describe the potential energy field caused ...as traditionally a mathematician, but he decided to apply his knowledge to physics and was able to discover a new way of doing things. ...

...Chinese-born American who works toward the further development of particle physics as well as statistical mechanics. He is most known for his work on the Lee- ...hysics. The institute is now know as "C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics". In 1999 he retired from Stony Brook University. After retiring from Stony ...

...University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics] ...otes=TorqueAndAngularMomentum&index=1 Torque and Angular Momentum, General Physics Class Notes, Dr. Rakesh Kapoor, M.Sc., Ph.D. Former Faculty-University of A ...

...paved the way for future discoveries in quantum mechanics and theoretical physics. ...d to Europe with his sisters where he attended lectures on mathematics and physics. After his three years abroad, Gibbs returned to America with a more europe ...

...ties with German institutions. Albert Einstein would continue his work in physics, and the occasional splash into politics, until his death at the age of 76 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html ...

...l-known for his contributions to the study of physical sciences, including physics, biology, and zoology. ...and biology. More specifically, his study of theoretical science included physics, mathematics, and metaphysics. Aristotle's scientific writings were primari ...

..., and contributed to the BET isotherm, a fundamental background of surface physics. When World War II began, Edward Teller began working to contribute to the ...versity of Chicago, later heading a group at Los Alamos in the Theoretical Physics division in 1943. However, Teller's obsession with the hydrogen bomb caused ...

...matosis with polyangiitis on January 1, 1894 at the age of 36. His book on theoretical mechanics ''Die Prinzipien der Mechanik'' was published after his death. ...f electromagnetism, which is one of the main pillars of modern theoretical physics. In his theory, Maxwell predicted that electromagnetic waves do exist. By c ...