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Werner Heisenberg
1901 – 1976The uncertainty principle.
Germany·PhysicsNobel
Hideki Yukawa
1907 – 1981Predicted the meson and the nuclear strong force.
Japan·PhysicsNobel
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 – 1995Worked out at nineteen why some stars must collapse into black holes.
India·Astronomy · Physics · MathematicsNobelFull profile
Maurice Wilkins
1916 – 2004Shared the DNA structure Nobel.
New Zealand·Biology · PhysicsNobel
Richard Feynman
1918 – 1988QED, nanotechnology's founding lecture, and the Challenger diagnosis.
United States·PhysicsNobel
Abdus Salam
1926 – 1996Unified the electromagnetic and weak forces; first Muslim science laureate.
Pakistan·PhysicsNobel
Peter Higgs
1929 – 2024Predicted the boson that gives particles mass, found 48 years later.
United Kingdom·PhysicsNobel
Stephen Hawking
1942 – 2018Hawking radiation and A Brief History of Time.
United Kingdom·Physics · Astronomy