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Julius Erich Wess (5 December 1934 – 8 August 2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten...

John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is...

Nuclear gas-core-reactor rockets can provide much higher specific impulse than solid core nuclear rockets because their temperature limitations are in...

The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, or NORDITA, or Nordita (Danish: Nordisk Institut for Teoretisk Fysik), is an international organisation for...

Edward John Hinch FRS (born 4 March 1947) is a Professor of fluid dynamics at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His...

Stanford Earl Woosley (born December 8, 1944) is a physicist, and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is the director of the Center for Supernova...

Hans Frauenfelder (July 28, 1922 – July 10, 2022) was an American physicist and biophysicist notable for his discovery of perturbed angular correlation...

In a quantum field theory with fermions, (−1)F is a unitary, Hermitian, involutive operator where F is the fermion number operator. For the example of...

Rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA), also known as Fourier modal method (FMM), is a semi-analytical method in computational electromagnetics that is...

Christopher Fulton McKee (born 1942) is an astrophysicist. McKee attended Phillips Academy and Harvard University, and obtained a Ph.D. from the University...

Richard Mollier (German: [mɔˈli̯eː]; 30 November 1863, Triest – 13 March 1935, Dresden) was a German professor of Applied Physics and Mechanics in Göttingen...

Lorenz S. Cederbaum (born 26 October 1946 in Braunschweig, Germany) is a German physical chemist. He studied physics at the University of Munich and obtained...

Paul Aimé Fleury (born July 20, 1939) is an American physicist and academic administrator. He was the dean of the faculty of engineering at Yale University...

Dr. Henry Evelyn Derrick Scovil, better known as H. E. D. Scovil or Derrick Scovil (1923-2010), was a physicist noted for his contributions to masers and...

Paul Mansour Naghdi (March 29, 1924 – July 9, 1994) was a professor of mechanical engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Paul Naghdi was born...

Norman C. Rasmussen (November 12, 1927 – July 18, 2003) was an American physicist. Rasmussen was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He grew up on a dairy...

The quantum concentration nQ is the particle concentration (i.e. the number of particles per unit volume) of a system where the interparticle distance...

Ronald J. Adrian is the Ira A. Fulton Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University's Fulton School of Engineering and...

An undercompressive shock wave is a shock wave that does not fulfill the Peter Lax conditions. Ordinary shock waves are compressive, that is, they fulfill...

Stewart E. Miller (September 1, 1918 – February 27, 1990) was a noted American pioneer in microwave and optical communications. Miller was born in Milwaukee...