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Of course physicists have enormous services for the continuity of our lives today. The reason is, without their innovation, until now we may not be able to use refrigerators, drive using motorized vehicles, and enjoy television.
These findings come from concepts created by physicists that facilitate our lives. When discussing physicists, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, or Galileo Galilei seem to be familiar to our ears.
However, today we also have 7 physicists with amazing discoveries who are still alive today. Here are 7 current physicists that you should know, launching from the page Discover Magazine.
Alan Guth is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. He is known for developing the idea of cosmic inflation, or an inflated universe.
His work can help to corroborate the details and fill in some of the gaps in the Big Bang theory. For those of us who are unfamiliar with physics, we can learn about this through Guth’s book, which was published in 1997 under the title ‘The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins’.
The work on quantum entanglement strengthens the validity of quantum physics and lays the foundation for the development of computers, successfully bringing Aspect together with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger to win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Alain Aspect, physicist who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics Photo: Doc. Ecole Polytechnique
While it was previously known that quantum theory works, Aspect’s work is helping science to better understand the peculiarities of quantum theory. This French physicist works at the Universite Paris-Saclay.
Her influence in the field of physics, which involves her work in theoretical particle physics and cosmology, has brought Lisa Randall to Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ list, in 2007.
Professor of Science at Harvard University is currently working to find dark matter. In addition, Randall’s books have also helped ordinary readers to better understand modern physics.
It was the British physicist who in 1964 proposed the existence of the Higgs boson, the particle that turns out to be central to the formation of almost everything. The existence of the Higgs particle has also been confirmed through experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.
Peter Higgs’ findings became one of the most important discoveries in physics which earned him the Nobel prize in 2013.
Working at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and in the philosophy department of the University of Toronto, Smolin is known as a theoretical physicist and one of the founders of the theory of quantum gravity, especially loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity.
In addition, Smolin is also exploring cosmological natural selection, which is described on its website as a falsifiable mechanism to explain the choice of the laws of physics. Smolin also has books that help lay readers understand the philosophical implications of modern physics and cosmology.
Rovelli is known for his work on relational quantum physics and the idea that objects only exist in relation to one another. Apart from that, it also works on loop quantum gravity, just like Smolin.
The magazine has listed this professor at the University of Aix-Marseille in France among its 100 most influential global thinkers.
On The Guardian, Rovelli admits that when he was young he was a radical student activist. He and his friends fought for a world without borders, without countries, without war, without religion, without family, without schools, and without private property.
Now he is known as one of the founders of the Global Peace Dividend Initiative with a number of artists and scientists. They champion military spending around the world and redirect that money to address critical issues facing the world, such as climate, health and poverty.
While still a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, Bell Burnell had succeeded in discovering a radio pulsar in 1967. Later, this discovery brought him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974. Unfortunately, Bell Burner was not included in the recipient because at that time he was still a student.
The continuous efforts of the Bell Burner led to him being awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics for his discovery of the pulsar and for his work in physics in 2018.
It didn’t stop there, Bell Burner also donated USD 3 million in prize money to finance scholarships to help women, refugees, and ethnic minority groups who want to study science.
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2023-07-19 13:00:03
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