Curated category
Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Enrico FermiEnrico Fermi was born in Rome, Italy, on the 29th of September 1901. He grew up at Via Gaeta 19 with his parents Alberto and Ida de Gattis.
- John Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald Wheeler was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on the 9th of July 1911. He grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, but spent a year from 1921 to 1922 on a…
- Carl SaganCarl Edward Sagan was born on the 9th of November 1934 in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father Samuel worked as a garment worker who had…
- American Physical SocietyThirty-six physicists gathered inside a room at Columbia University on the 20th of May 1899. They formed a new organization to advance and diffuse knowledge…
- Erwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger entered the world on the 12th of August 1887 in Vienna. He was the only child of Rudolf Schrödinger, a botanist, and…
- Nathan RosenNathan Rosen was born on the 22nd of March 1909 into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. The Great Depression shaped his early years as he attended…
- John von NeumannBudapest, 1903. A boy named Neumann János Lajos sat at a table in an eighteen-room apartment on the top floor of a building above the Kann-Heller offices.
- John SingletonJohn Daniel Singleton was born on the 6th of January 1968, in Los Angeles. His mother Shelia Ward-Johnson worked as a pharmaceutical company sales executive.
- Edward TellerEde Teller was born on the 15th of January 1908, in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father Miksa worked as an…
- Eric Allin CornellEric Allin Cornell arrived in Palo Alto, California on the 19th of December 1961. His parents were finishing their graduate studies at Stanford University…
- Eugene WignerEugene Paul Wigner was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on the 17th of November 1902. He grew up as the son of Elisabeth Elsa Einhorn and Antal Anton…
- Sally RideSally Kristen Ride was born on the 26th of May 1951, in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her mother worked as a volunteer counselor at a women's…
- Hermann WeylHermann Klaus Hugo Weyl entered the world on the 9th of November 1885 in Elmshorn. This small town sat near Hamburg within Germany.
- George GamowGeorgiy Antonovich Gamow was born in Odessa, Russian Empire, now Odesa, Ukraine. His father taught Russian language and literature while his mother taught…
- Andrei SakharovAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov entered the world on the 21st of May 1921 in Moscow. His father, Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, worked as a physics professor at the…
- Boris PodolskyBoris Yakovlevich Podolsky entered the world on the 29th of June 1896 in Taganrog. This port city sat within the Don Host Oblast of the Russian Empire.
- Gerald HoltonGerald James Holton was born on the 23rd of May 1922, in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father worked as an attorney specializing…
- Peter BergmannPeter Gabriel Bergmann was born on the 24th of March 1915 into a Jewish family in Berlin. His father Max worked as a biochemist and later became a professor…
- Linus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was born on the 28th of February 1901, in Portland, Oregon. His father Herman Henry William Pauling worked as a traveling salesman for the…
- Peter DebyePeter Joseph William Debye was born on the 24th of March 1884 in Maastricht, Netherlands. He enrolled at Aachen University of Technology in 1901 to study…
- Lee SmolinLee Smolin was born on the 6th of June 1955 in New York City. His father Michael worked as an environmental and process engineer while his mother Pauline…