People in Physics by Topic

Quantum Mechanics


Kelly Chipps



Jelena Maricic



Ben Van Dusen



Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel, a physicist and blogger, is not afraid to weigh in on the controversial issues of the day. On June 29th, 2010, for example, he made reference to "the immense suckitude of the refereeing" at the then-ongoing World Cup.


Vincent Rodgers



Rob Semper

Rob Semper is the Executive Associate Director of the Exploratorium, a science museum in San Francisco.


Jorge Pullin



Chris Quigg

As a child, Chris Quigg wanted to make the laws of nature. He thought that was the difference between physics and engineering: physicists make the law and engineers apply the law.


Andrew Post-Zwicker



Sekazi Mtingwa

In addition to carrying out his own research in accelerator and high energy physics, MIT physicist Sekazi Mtingwa travels to Africa several times a year to promote science.


Marcello Pavan

Marcello Pavan loves physics. He says that becoming a physicist is like joining the 'secular priesthood': "some people get the calling and some people don't."


Sergio Ulloa

Like many physicists, Sergio Ulloa loves constantly learning new things.


Geoffrey West



Lawrence Krauss



Charles Holbrow

Charles Holbrow's first memory of his interest in physics comes from when he was about 13 years old. He saved up money from his paper route to buy Millikan's Electrons. “I read about two pages and it made no sense to me whatsoever.”


Brian Greene



Timothy Gay

Timothy Gay of the University of Nebraska often engages in what he calls “physics propaganda.” He says, “As working scientists, we need to explain to the public why what we’re doing is cool and interesting.”


Albin Gonzalez

Medical physics is not a well-known field, but it's an extremely important one, says medical physicist Albin Gonzalez. Gonzalez works with high-tech machines of the same type of accelerators used in cutting-edge science.


Jolie Cizewski


Jim Gates

Jim Gates



Janet Conrad



Sam Zeller



Steve Giddings



Michael Binger

Not many people would drop $5000 on a celebratory dinner for 25 friends at the Voodoo Lounge in Las Vegas, but that’s just what particle physicist Michael Binger did last August.


Fred Begay



Catherine Asaro
