nuclear physicist

Other forms: nuclear physicists

Definitions of nuclear physicist

1. noun

   a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics
   examples:

   Carl David Anderson

   United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991)

   Hans Albrecht Bethe

   United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (1906-2005)

   Niels Henrik David Bohr

   Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962)

   Max Born

   British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970)

   Satyendra Nath Bose

   Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons

   Louis Victor de Broglie

   French nuclear physicist who generalized the wave-particle duality by proposing that particles of matter exhibit wavelike properties (1892-1987)

   Sir John Douglas Cockcroft

   British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)

   Arthur Holly Compton

   United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962)

   Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

   English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984)

   Enrico Fermi

   Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)

   Richard Phillips Feynman

   United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)

   Otto Robert Frisch

   British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979)

   Murray Gell-Mann

   United States physicist noted for his studies of subatomic particles (born in 1929)

   Donald Arthur Glaser

   United States physicist who invented the bubble chamber to study subatomic particles (born in 1926)

   Werner Karl Heisenberg

   German mathematical physicist noted for stating the uncertainty principle (1901-1976)

   Gustav Ludwig Hertz

   German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

   Gerhard Herzberg

   Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904)

   Ernest Orlando Lawrence

   United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)

   Tsung Dao Lee

   United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)

   Marie Goeppert Mayer

   United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972)

   Lise Meitner

   Swedish physicist (born in Austria) who worked in the field of radiochemistry with Otto Hahn and formulated the concept of nuclear fission with Otto Frisch (1878-1968)

   Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer

   German physicist (born in 1929)

   Karl Alex Muller

   Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)

   Robert Oppenheimer

   United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)

   Wolfgang Pauli

   United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958)

   Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov

   Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)

   Erwin Schrodinger

   Austrian physicist who discovered the wave equation (1887-1961)

   Leo Szilard

   United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964)

   Igor Yevgeneevich Tamm

   Russian physicist (1895-1971)

   Edward Teller

   United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)

   Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

   Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)

   Eugene Paul Wigner

   United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995)

   Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

   Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber (1869-1959)

   Hideki Yukawa

   Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981)

   type of:

   physicist

   a scientist trained in physics