Top 20 Physicist celebrities in United States
Here is the latest list of the world's top 20 Physicist celebrities [Updated February 26, 2021].
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born
on October 5, 1958
in New York City, United States.
In 2001, US President
George W. Bush appointed him to serve on the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry and in 2004 he earned the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal.
Net Worth 2020: $5 Million
Michio Kaku was born
on January 24, 1947
in San Jose, United States.
Net Worth 2020: $5 Million
Lawrence Krauss was born
on May 27, 1954
in New York City, United States.
He held a professorship at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He was the subject of the feature film The Unbelievers.
Net Worth 2020: $2 Million
Brian Greene was born
on February 9, 1963
in New York City, United States.
His second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, was made into a PBS television special of the same name.
Net Worth 2020: $2 Million
Luis Walter Alvarez was born
on June 13, 1911
in San Francisco, United States.
In collaboration with his son, he formed the hypothesis stating that the extinction of the dinosaurs came about as a result of an asteroid.
Richard Feynman was born
on May 11, 1918
in New York City, United States.
While working at the cutting edge of science, he maintained a common touch with books popularizing and explaining physics.
Clinton Davisson was born
on October 22, 1881
in Bloomington, United States.
In 1919 he took up working with the electrons in researching the theory that they exist both in wave form and in particles, one of the fundamental assumptions of quantum mechanics.
George Smoot was born
on February 20, 1945
in United States.
He was the winner of the last episode of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
Taylor Wilson was born
on May 7, 1994
in Texarkana, United States.
He was awarded the $100,000 Thiel Fellowship in June 2012.
Karl Guthe Jansky was born
on October 22, 1905
in United States.
In tracing the sources of static, he found two of them came from thunderstorms, but a third one was apparently originating from the constellation Sagittarius.
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. was born
on March 29, 1941
in Philadelphia, United States.
He taught at Princeton University from 1980 until 2006.
Ernest Moniz was born
on December 22, 1944
in Fall River, United States.
An American nuclear physicist who became the 13th United States Secretary of Energy by President Barack Obama in May 2013. He is one of the founders of The Cyprus Institute and he was the Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Clinton administration.
He was unanimously voted in as Secretary of Energy by the Senate.
Ernest Lawrence was born
on August 8, 1901
in United States.
He was a big supporter of government funding for large-scale scientific programs following World War II.
Edwin McMillan was born
on September 18, 1907
in United States.
He co-created the element neptunium in 1940.
Edwin Hall was born
on November 7, 1855
in United States.
His famous "Hall Effect" is found in fuel injection and anti-lock braking systems for motor vehicles.
Bryce Seligman Dewitt was born
on January 8, 1923
in United States.
Among his accolades were the 1987 Dirac Prize and the 2005 American Physical Society's Einstein Prize.
Philip Morrison was born
on November 7, 1915
in Somerville, United States.
In 1999 writer Jeremy Sone accused him of being a Soviet spy but he has adamantly denied this.
Robert Oppenheimer was born
on April 22, 1904
in New York City, United States.
Almost a decade after his reputation was ruined by allegations that he had communist sympathies President
John F. Kennedy awarded him the
Enrico Fermi Award.
Shirley Ann Jackson was born
on August 5, 1946
in United States.
She sat on the Board of Directors of the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Stock Exchange, the Brookings Institution, and numerous other high-profile organizations.
Aaron D. O'Connell was born
on March 5, 1981
in Allentown, United States.
In 2011, he spoke about quantum physics for TED2011.
