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.
The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is a non-aligned,non-political,not-for-profit,pan-African learned society formed in 1985.
The Physical Research Laboratory is a National Research Institute for space and allied sciences,supported mainly by Department of Space,Government of India. This research laboratory has ongoing research programmes in astronomy and astrophysics,atmospheric sciences and aeronomy,planetary and geosciences,Earth sciences,Solar System studies and theoretical physics. It also manages the Udaipur Solar Observatory and Mount Abu InfraRed Observatory. The PRL is located in Ahmedabad.
Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist,whose research has focused on quantum field theory,statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton densities,obtained with Guido Altarelli,known as the Altarelli–Parisi or DGLAP equations,the exact solution of the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses,the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation describing dynamic scaling of growing interfaces,and the study of whirling flocks of birds. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe for groundbreaking contributions to theory of complex systems,in particular "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales".
Rajagopala Chidambaram is an Indian Physicist who is known for his integral role in India's nuclear weapons program;he coordinated test preparation for the Pokhran-I (1975) and Pokhran-II (1998).
Ana María CettoKramis is a Mexican physicist and professor. Her work specializes in quantum mechanics,stochastic theory,electrodynamics,and biophysics of light. She is also known for her work as a pacifist and activist for women in science. From 2003 to 2010 she was Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She was also professor and director at the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),from 1979-1982. Cetto Kramis is responsible for several scientific literature programs in Latin America and for several international programs on the promotion and participation of women in physics.
Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov was a Russian physicist and scientific leader. His scientific interests included plasma physics,lasers,controlled nuclear fusion,power engineering,and magnetohydrodynamics. He was the author of over 1500 scientific publications and a number of inventions and discoveries.
Kurt Gottfried was an Austrian-born American physicist who was professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University. He was known for his work in the areas of quantum mechanics and particle physics and was also a co-founder with Henry Way Kendall of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He wrote extensively in the areas of physics and arms control.
Francisco JoséYnduráin Muñoz was a Spanish theoretical physicist. He founded the particle physics research group that became the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid,where he was a Professor. He was described by his colleagues as "a scientist that always searched for excellence in research".
Mohamed Hag Ali Hag el HassanOMRI GCONMC FAAS FIAS FTWAS is a Sudanese-Italian mathematician and physicist who co-founded numerous scientific councils. He is the President of The World Academy of Sciences and Sudanese National Academy of Sciences.
Fayyazuddin,also spelled as Fayyaz Uddin,is a Pakistani theoretical physicist,emeritus professor,specialising in theoretical physics and mathematical physics at Quaid-e-Azam University campus National Centre for Physics,Islamabad. He is a senior scientist at the National Center for Physics. Fayyaz conducts research in the fields of quantum mechanics,particle physics,and meson physics. He has published numerous physics papers accompanied by Riazuddin and has co-authored Quantum Mechanics by Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin published in 1990.
The Institute of Applied Physics,National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,was established by the Decree of the Presidium of NAS Ukraine from 21.11.1991 No. 299 on the base of the Sumy branch of the Institute of Metallophysics to enlarge the fundamental and applied investigations in nuclear technology. The initiative belongs to Volodymyr Yu. Storizhko,the current director of the IAP NAS Ukraine,academician of NAS Ukraine and co-scholars from the National Scientific Center “Khar’kov Physical-Technical Institute”,NAS Ukraine. The idea of the first academic institute in Sumy region was industriously supported by B.Ye. Paton,the President of NAS Ukraine and V.G. Barjakhtar,the first Vice-President NAS Ukraine,academician of NAS Ukraine. The IAP NAS Ukraine is a part of the Department of Nuclear Physics and Power Engineering,NAS Ukraine.
Lajos Jánossy was a Hungarian physicist,astrophysicist and mathematician and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His primary research fields were astrophysics,nuclear physics,quantum mechanics,mathematical physics,and statistics,as well as electrodynamics and optics.
Asoke Nath Mitra was an Indian theoretical physicist. He was a lifetime professor emeritus at Delhi University. He is known for his work in nuclear physics,particle physics and quantum field theory and in particular,for his fundamental contributions in obtaining the exact solution of the nucleon 3- body problem with separable potentials which led to the few nucleon studies,quark-recoil effect,development of an integrated dynamics of 2- and 3- body systems from nucleons to quarks as well as for the development of quark dynamics and relativistic quark models for hadrons in the Bethe-Salpeter framework. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1969.
Xue Qikun is a Chinese physicist. He is a professor of Tsinghua University,Beijing. He has done much work in condensed matter physics,especially on superconductors and topological insulators. In 2013,Xue was the first to achieve the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE),an unusual orderly motion of electrons in a conductor,in his laboratory at Tsinghua University. Xue is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,vice president for research of Tsinghua University,and director of State Key Lab of Quantum Physics. In 2016,he was one of the first recipients of the new Chinese Future Science Prize for experimental discovery of high-temperature superconductivity at material interfaces and the QAHE. This award has been described as "China's Nobel Prize".
Wang Yifang is a Chinese particle and accelerator physicist. He is director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and known for contributions to neutrino physics,in particular his leading role at Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment to determine the last unknown neutrino mixing angle θ13.
Swapan Kumar Pati is an Indian quantum chemist,a professor of the department of chemistry at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and the head of the Quantum Theory Molecules to Materials Group at the institute. He is known for his studies on electronic optical and magnetic phenomena in molecular systems and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,India and The World Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards,in 2010,for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Virendra Singh is an Indian theoretical physicist and a former C. V. Raman chair professor and director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Known for his research in high energy physics,Singh is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies - Indian National Science Academy,Indian Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences,India as well as The World Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards,for his contributions to Physical Sciences in 1973.
Robert Dautray was a French engineer,scientific director of the French Commissariat àl'Energie Atomique (CEA) and High Commissioner for Atomic Energy. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences,section mechanical and computer sciences,and of the French Academy of Technology.
Félix Malu wa Kalenga was a Congolese emeritus professor of Nuclear Physics and a scientist. He was a founding member of the Third World Academy of Science (TWAS). He was a professor at Lovanium University and a Dean of the Polytechnic Faculty of the University of Kinshasa. He was also a commissioner of the general commission for atomic energy (CGEA) in the DRC and a director general of the regional center for nuclear studies in Kinshasa.
