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The famous image of Einstein taken by International News photographer Arthur Sasse in 1951. Einstein became one of the most famous scientific celebrities after the confirmation of his general theory of relativity in 1919. [320] [321] [322] Although most of the public had little understanding of his work, he was widely recognized and admired.
List of Christians in science and technology. List of Christian Nobel laureates. List of Christian scientists and scholars of medieval Islam. List of climate scientists. List of women climate scientists and activists. List of cognitive scientists. List of computer scientists. List of cosmologists. List of criminologists.
Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [ 9] and the government of the Soviet ...
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov – Soviet Union, Russia (1928–2017) Nobel laureate. Robert Adler – United States (1913–2007) Stephen L. Adler – United States (born 1939) Franz Aepinus – Rostock (1724–1802) Mina Aganagic – Albania, United States. David Z Albert – United States (born 1954) Felicie Albert – France, United States.
Physical cosmology. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [ 6][ 17][ 18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics ...
Many scientists have been recognized with the assignment of their names as international units by the International Committee for Weights and Measures or as non-SI units. . The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from French: Système international d'unités) is the most widely used system of units of measureme
Richard A. Betts, Head of the Climate Impacts strategic area at the Met Office Hadley Centre. John W. Birks, American atmospheric chemist and co-developer of the nuclear winter theory. Jacob Bjerknes (1897–1975), Norwegian-American meteorologist. Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862–1951), Norwegian, forecasting, numerical models.
In July 2020 scientists reported that work honored by Nobel prizes clusters in only a few scientific fields with only 36/71 having received at least one Nobel prize of the 114/849 domains science could be divided into according to their DC2 and DC3 classification systems. Five of the 114 domains were shown to make up over half of the Nobel ...