Edward Witten is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory,quantum gravity,supersymmetric quantum field theories,and other areas of mathematical physics. Witten's work has also significantly impacted pure mathematics. In 1990,he became the first physicist to be awarded a Fields Medal by the International Mathematical Union,for his mathematical insights in physics,such as his 1981 proof of the positive energy theorem in general relativity,and his interpretation of the Jones invariants of knots as Feynman integrals. He is considered the practical founder of M-theory.
Higher Superstition:The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science is a 1994 book about the philosophy of science by the biologist Paul R. Gross and the mathematician Norman Levitt.
David Jonathan Gross is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer,he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. Gross is the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) of the University of California,Santa Barbara (UCSB),and was formerly the KITP director and holder of their Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics. He is also a faculty member in the UCSB Physics Department and is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California. He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Christoph Wolff is a German musicologist. He is best known for his works on the music,life,and period of Johann Sebastian Bach. Christoph Wolff is an emeritus professor of Harvard University,and was part of the faculty since 1976,and former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 2001 to 2014.
David Louis Goodstein was an American physicist and educator. From 1988 to 2007 he served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),where he was also a professor of physics and applied physics,as well as the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor.
Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth was an American physicist,diplomat,and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy,as a participant in the Manhattan Project,a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC),and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
John Earman is an American philosopher of physics. He is an emeritus professor in the History and Philosophy of Science department at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught at the University of California,Los Angeles,Rockefeller University,and the University of Minnesota,and was president of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.
Daniel Horace Deudney is an American political scientist and Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His published work is mainly in the fields of international relations and political theory,with an emphasis on geopolitics and republicanism.
Edward Leamington Nichols was an American scientist. He was a physicist and astronomer,professor of physics at Cornell University.
Max Jammer,was an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics. He was born in Berlin,Germany. He was Rector and Acting President at Bar-Ilan University from 1967 to 1977.
James Ellis LuValle was an American athlete and scientist. He won the bronze medal in the 400 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics,and was an accomplished chemist and founder of the Graduate Students Association at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA).
Edward L. (Ned) Wright is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He has worked on space missions including the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE),Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) projects.
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein was an American social theorist,practicing psychoanalyst,and a professor of political science at University of California,Los Angeles.
Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing,data science,and society at the University of California,Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley,she was a technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge,Massachusetts,which she founded in 2008,and Microsoft Research New York City,which she founded in 2012.
Sundararaman Ramanan is an Indian mathematician who works in the area of algebraic geometry,moduli spaces and Lie groups. He is one of India's leading mathematicians and recognised as an expert in algebraic geometry,especially in the area of moduli problems. He has also worked in differential geometry:his joint paper with MS Narasimhan on universal connections has been influential. It enabled SS Chern and B Simons to introduce what is known as the Chern-Simons invariant,which has proved useful in theoretical physics.
Nikita Alexandrovich Nekrasov is a Russian mathematical and theoretical physicist at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and C.N.Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University in New York,and a Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Hugh David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.
Troy Alan Carter is an American plasma physicist and a professor at the University of California,Los Angeles. He was co-awarded the 2002 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research for his work on driven magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma.
