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page 121st-century American physicists
James Watson
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist (1929–2019)
Chen-ning Yang
Chinese physicist (1922–2025)
Robert Wilson
American astronomer (born 1936)
Steven Chu
American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
David Gross
American particle physicist and string theorist
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
George F. Smoot
American astrophysicist and cosmologist (1945–2025)
Leon Cooper
American physicist (1930–2024)
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
Frank Wilczek
American theoretical physicist
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
David J. Wineland
American physicist
Sheldon Glashow
American theoretical physicist
Philip W. Anderson
American physicist (1923-2020)
John C. Mather
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Ben Roy Mottelson
Danish nuclear physicist (1926–2022)
David J. Thouless
British physicist (1934–2019)
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist
Anthony James Leggett
British physicist (1938–2026)
Horst Ludwig Störmer
German physicist
Burton Richter
American physicist
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist (1922-2020)
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
John L. Hall
American physicist (born 1934)
George E. Smith
Nobel prize winning American physicist
Hugh David Politzer
American physicist
Duncan Haldane
professor of physics at Princeton University
Jim Peebles
Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
Michael Kosterlitz
British physicist
Samuel C. C. Ting
Chinese-American physicist
Rainer Weiss
American physicist (1932–2025)
Eric Allin Cornell
American physicist, professor (born 1961)
Daniel C. Tsui
Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
Carl Wieman
Nobel prize winning US physicist
Douglas Osheroff
American physicist
David Lee
physicist and Nobel Prize winner from the United States
Walter Gilbert
American biochemist
John B. Goodenough
American materials scientist (1922–2023)
Barry C. Barish
American physicist
Alan J. Heeger
American chemist, physicist
John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
Roderick MacKinnon
American neuroscientist
Eric Betzig
American physicist
Liu Gang
Chinese scientist and revolutionary (born 1961)
John Clauser
American physicist
Brian Greene
American physicist
John M. Martinis
American physicist (born 1958)
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
Ash Carter
25th United States Secretary of Defense
Fritjof Capra
American physicist (1939-)
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Lisa Randall
American theoretical physicist
Ingrid Daubechies
Belgian physicist and mathematician